One box of programmes from the Town Hall, from 1898 to 1993. The programmes are largely from the 1920s, 1930s and 1950s.

The programmes are largely from orchestral concerts, but the collection includes a number of programmes from recitals and opera performances.

The first programmes in the collection is from a "Matinée Musicale" given on 1 March 1898. This included songs, stories, dance and sketches. The next programme is from a concert given on 18 May 1898, which was a recital of recitations given by Clifford Harrison. The remainder of the collection dates from the twentieth century.

The collection includes a large amount of programmes from Oxford Subscription Concerts, particularly from the 1920s and 1930s. The programmes are largely from orchestral and recitals. Opera programmes are chiefly from performances given by the Oxford University Opera Club (from the 1950s and 1960s); the remainder are from performances given by the Chelsea Opera Group.

Arrangement:
The programmes are arranged in chronological order.

1898 - 1993

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Not Specific

• Chelsea Opera Group -
• Oxford Subscription Concerts -
• Oxford University Opera Club -

• Oxford
• Town Hall, Oxford

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

• Opera

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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.