A collection of 56 programmes and prospectuses from Symphony Hall, from 1991 to 2003. In addition, the collection includes other items of performance ephemera including a brochure outlining the new hall (1990) and various press cuttings. The hall opened on 15 April 1991. The majority of items are from orchestral concerts or choir concerts, including a significant number of items from the City of Birmingham Choir and/or the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

1990 - 2003

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Not Specific

• City of Birmingham Choir -
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra -

• Birmingham
• Symphony Hall, Birmingham

• 20th century - late 1971-1999
• 21st century

Centre for Performance History Prince Consort Road London London SW7 2BS Bangladesh

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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.