SearchGetRecordCanterbury Cathedral Festival (1929)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
Canterbury Cathedral Festival (1929)
Description
A collection of six programmes from the Canterbury Cathedral Festival of Music & Drama, 1929. The collection also contains one festival leaflet bound into the volume, and four loose leaflets. In addition, one of the leaflets contains a typed chorus rehearsal schedule.
The festival tool place from 19/08/29 to 24/08/29, and it is assumed the concerts took place in the cathedral. The programmes contain all the events for each day of the festival, including drama and music. The festival contained four orchestral concerts, and two concerts that featured orchestral and choral music. The concerts were given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under various conductors including Adrian Boult. In addition, Gustav Holst conducted a performance of one of his own pieces. The choruses in the festival were made up from local singers, including a “Kent Chorus” featuring hundreds of singers from nearby towns and cities. There were also chamber concerts, given as part of the festival.
Arrangement:
The programmes are arranged chronologically.
The festival tool place from 19/08/29 to 24/08/29, and it is assumed the concerts took place in the cathedral. The programmes contain all the events for each day of the festival, including drama and music. The festival contained four orchestral concerts, and two concerts that featured orchestral and choral music. The concerts were given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under various conductors including Adrian Boult. In addition, Gustav Holst conducted a performance of one of his own pieces. The choruses in the festival were made up from local singers, including a “Kent Chorus” featuring hundreds of singers from nearby towns and cities. There were also chamber concerts, given as part of the festival.
Arrangement:
The programmes are arranged chronologically.
Format
Date range of collection
1929 - 1929
Accumulation Dates
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Not Specific
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Handwritten list of music for each concert at end of volume
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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
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cph@rcm.ac.uk
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020 7 589 4340
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020 7 589 7740
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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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Open
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