SearchGetRecordEnglish Provinces: Oxford: Multi-venue (1906-1991)
Collection Summary
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English Provinces: Oxford: Multi-venue (1906-1991)
Description
A collection of 20 festival programmes, prospectuses and concert diaries from Oxford, from 1906 to 1991. The collection contains material from festivals, concert series, conferences and other events which took place in multiple venues across Oxford.
The collection contains two items which list afternoon classes. One is entitled "Programme of Sunday Afternoon Class for boys", and is from 1906. The other is called "Programme of Sunday afternoon meeting for boys", and is undated. Both list a variety of meeting venues, including a number of addresses on the High Street and Woodstock Road.
The remainder of the collection contains materials from the following festivals, events, organisations and performing groups: Oxford Music Festival; IAML IASA; City of Oxford Orchestra; Handel in Oxford Festival; Oxford Bach Choir; Oxfordshire Jazz Festival; English Bach Festival; Oxford "Week-end" of Music and Art.
The collection contains two items which list afternoon classes. One is entitled "Programme of Sunday Afternoon Class for boys", and is from 1906. The other is called "Programme of Sunday afternoon meeting for boys", and is undated. Both list a variety of meeting venues, including a number of addresses on the High Street and Woodstock Road.
The remainder of the collection contains materials from the following festivals, events, organisations and performing groups: Oxford Music Festival; IAML IASA; City of Oxford Orchestra; Handel in Oxford Festival; Oxford Bach Choir; Oxfordshire Jazz Festival; English Bach Festival; Oxford "Week-end" of Music and Art.
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Date range of collection
1906 - 1991
Accumulation Dates
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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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