A collection of 17 programmes and prospectuses from Durham, from 1883 to 2003.

The collection contains programmes from the following venues: Durham Cathedral; Town Hall; Drill Hall. The collection contains prospectuses from the "Durham Twentieth Century Festival and Summer School" and the concert series "Music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies".

The collection contains three nineteenth-century programmes from concerts given in the Town Hall, described as follows:

08/03/1888 - "Lecture-Evening Concert", on the subject of Tennyson, including spoken items and sung items.
06/02/1891 - "Evening Concert", a mixed concert but laregly featuring vocal items.
20/04/1894 - "Grand Evening Concert", a mixed concert but laregly featuring vocal items.

A number of programmes from the Drill Hall are from concerts organised by the Durham Musical Society. These programmes are from the 1905-1906, 1906-1907 and 1908-1909 seasons.

Arrangement:
The programmes are arranged by venue, then chronologically. The prospectuses are at the end of the collection.

1883 - 2003

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Not Specific

• Durham music society -
• Durham Twentieth Century Festival and Summer School -
• Music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (Durham) -

• Drill Hall, Durham
• Durham
• Durham Cathedral
• Town Hall, Durham

• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
• 20th century - early 1900-1930
• 20th century - late 1971-1999
• 20th century - mid 1931-1970
• 21st century

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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.