A collection of programmes from the Blackheath Concert Rooms. The programmes in the collection are chiefly from the re-establishment of the halls, post 1986: these programmes are predominantly from the late 1980s and early 1990s. There are four programmes – two copies of two separate programmes – from 1924 and 1925. The collection has a substantial amount of season brochures alongside programmes from individual events. There are also a few other types of printed ephemera including letters to patrons and brochures for the Blackheath Conservatoire. The majority of items in the collections are from concerts, but there are a few programmes from dancing and poetry events. The majority of concert programmes pertain to chamber concerts and recitals. There are also a few programmes in the collection from jazz concerts.

Arrangement:
Programmes are arranged chronologically. Miscellaneous non-programme items are filled at the end of the sequence.

1924 -

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Not Specific

• Blackheath Conservatoire 1881 -

• Blackheath Concert Halls
• London [England]

• 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.