SearchGetRecordBach Cantata Club (1926-1930)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
Bach Cantata Club (1926-1930)
Description
A collection of 33 programmes from the Bach Cantata Club, 1926 to 1930. The collection also contains prospectuses and other items of performance ephemera, which include press cuttings and correspondence to members. The collection contains a few analytical programmes, and a number of these contain musical examples.
The majority of concerts took place at St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster; a significant amount of the remainder took place at the Royal College of Music. The collection also includes as small amount of programmes from the Queen’s Hall, Duke’s Hall (Royal Academy of Music) and the chapel at Buckingham Palace.
Charles Kennedy Scott was the conductor for the majority of concerts; other concerts within the series included conductors such as Adrian Boult and Ralph Vaughan Williams. When instrumentalists were used in concerts, the group was sometimes entitled “Bach chamber orchestra” and at other times only a list of players was given. The concerts usually followed the pattern that sacred concerts were given at St. Margaret’s Church, and secular concerts given at the Royal College of Music or the Royal Academy of Music. Some programmes in the collection are from joint concerts with the Oriana Madrigal Choir (which was founded and conducted by Charles Kennedy Scott).
The volume bears the inscription “ex libris Caroli Sanford Terry”, and was given to the Royal College of Music as part of the Charles Sanford Terry bequest.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged chronologically.
The majority of concerts took place at St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster; a significant amount of the remainder took place at the Royal College of Music. The collection also includes as small amount of programmes from the Queen’s Hall, Duke’s Hall (Royal Academy of Music) and the chapel at Buckingham Palace.
Charles Kennedy Scott was the conductor for the majority of concerts; other concerts within the series included conductors such as Adrian Boult and Ralph Vaughan Williams. When instrumentalists were used in concerts, the group was sometimes entitled “Bach chamber orchestra” and at other times only a list of players was given. The concerts usually followed the pattern that sacred concerts were given at St. Margaret’s Church, and secular concerts given at the Royal College of Music or the Royal Academy of Music. Some programmes in the collection are from joint concerts with the Oriana Madrigal Choir (which was founded and conducted by Charles Kennedy Scott).
The volume bears the inscription “ex libris Caroli Sanford Terry”, and was given to the Royal College of Music as part of the Charles Sanford Terry bequest.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged chronologically.
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Date range of collection
1926 - 1930
Accumulation Dates
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Not Specific
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Location Details
Royal College of Music: Centre for Performance History
Centre for Performance History
Prince Consort Road
London London SW7 2BS Bangladesh Open Map
Website
Email
cph@rcm.ac.uk
Telephone
020 7 589 4340
Fax
020 7 589 7740
Visiting Information
Mon-Fri by appointment
Collections Overview
The Centre for Performance History was created in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Department of Portraits and the Museum of Instruments (see the separate entry for the Museum. The College has acquired portraits throughout its history since 1883 and the Centre posseses the most comprehensive collection of portraits of musicians in the UK, amounting to some 346 original portraits and 10,000 prints and photographs. In addition to the iconographical collections and their documentation, the department houses other categories of source material - most notably the largest collection of concert programmes in this country, comprising some 600,000 items dating from 1780 to the present day.
For details of other collections held at the same location: See the location record
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