SearchGetRecordEnglish Provinces: Cheltenham: Cheltenham International Festival of Music (1948-2002)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
English Provinces: Cheltenham: Cheltenham International Festival of Music (1948-2002)
Description
A collection of 65 festival programmes and prospectuses from the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, from 1948 to 2002. The 1948 festival was the fourth festival. The festival is also variously described as the Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music (till around 1960), the Cheltenham Festival (from around 1962 to around 1971) and then the Cheltenham International Festival of Music (from around 1974 onwards).
The collection includes festival programmes from the following years: 1949 (2 copies), 1950 (3 copies), 1953-1960 (some years have multiple copies), 1962-1966, 1969-1971, 1974-1976, 1978-1987. There are prospectuses and other items of performance ephemera from a selection of years, covering the period 1948 to 2002.
For individual concert programmes from the festival, see separate entries for specific concert venues.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged chronologically.
The collection includes festival programmes from the following years: 1949 (2 copies), 1950 (3 copies), 1953-1960 (some years have multiple copies), 1962-1966, 1969-1971, 1974-1976, 1978-1987. There are prospectuses and other items of performance ephemera from a selection of years, covering the period 1948 to 2002.
For individual concert programmes from the festival, see separate entries for specific concert venues.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged chronologically.
Format
Date range of collection
1948 - 2002
Accumulation Dates
-
Suggested Audience
Not Specific
Associated People or Organisations
Associated Times
This collection is about
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
Additional Collection Information
Accrual Status
Open
Related Publications
Management Information (Type)
Collection Owner(s)
Collection Creator(s)
Collection Collector(s)
Collection Custodians(s)
Associated Collection(s)
