One folder of programmes from Japan, from 1934 onwards. The collection includes items from a wide variety of towns and cities. A large number of programmes in the collection are from Tokyo. Many different venues are represented in the collection, including a number of items from the Musashino Academia Musicae, Bunka Kaikan Hall and Hibiya Public Hall. The remainder of the collection includes programmes from Osaka (programmes are from the Festival Hall), Sapporo and Shizuoka. In addition, there are a number of programmes from multi-city tours or repeated concerts, with concert venues including venues in the towns and cities previously mentioned as well as other locations in Japan.

1934 -

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Not Specific

• Bunka Kaikan Hall, Tokyo
• Festival Hall, Osaka
• Hibiya Public Hall
• Japan
• Osaka
• Sapporo
• Shizuoka
• Tokyo

• 20th century - mid 1931-1970

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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.