SearchGetRecordNational Gallery Concert (1940)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
National Gallery Concert (1940)
Unique Identifier
X.439/11999
Description
A single handbill for a National Gallery Concert given on 19 June 1940 by the Menges String Quartet (Isolde Menges, Beatrice Carrelle, John Yewe Dyer and Ivor Jones) with Frederick Thurston (clarinet).
This was a performance of Schubert, String Quartet in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' and Brahms, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, op. 115.
There is a note indicating that the concert was intended to have been given by the Griller String Quartet, but that the group had to pull out due to the 'indisposition of Colin Hampton'.
This was a performance of Schubert, String Quartet in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' and Brahms, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, op. 115.
There is a note indicating that the concert was intended to have been given by the Griller String Quartet, but that the group had to pull out due to the 'indisposition of Colin Hampton'.
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1940 - 1949
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Not Specific
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British Library
The British Library
St Pancras
,96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB United Kingdom Open Map
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