SearchGetRecordEnglish Provinces: Harrogate: Harrogate Festival (1966-1993)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
English Provinces: Harrogate: Harrogate Festival (1966-1993)
Description
A collection of 22 festival programmes and prospectuses from the Harrogate Festival, from 1966 to 1993. The festival was later called the "Harrogate International Festival", from around 1980 or 1981 onwards. The first festival was in 1966, and early festivals were called "Harrogate Festival of Arts and Sciences".
The collection includes festival programmes from the following years: 1966, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. There are prospectuses from a selection of these festivals and other festivals spanning the years 1966 to 1993.
For individual concert programmes from the festival, see separate record for specific concert venues.
The collection includes festival programmes from the following years: 1966, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. There are prospectuses from a selection of these festivals and other festivals spanning the years 1966 to 1993.
For individual concert programmes from the festival, see separate record for specific concert venues.
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Date range of collection
1966 - 1993
Accumulation Dates
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Suggested Audience
Not Specific
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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
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
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Open
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