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Collection Summary
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London: Cambridge Theatre (1933-)
Description
A collection of 400 programmes from performances given at the Cambridge Theatre, London. The collection predominantly consists of programmes from concerts, with a few opera programmes included. There are also a few newspaper reviews in the collection.
The collection ranges from 1933 onwards, with virtually every item dating from the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Within the collection, performances from the 1940s are particularly well documented. The largest concert series represented in the collection is the “Sunday concerts”: the collection is particularly, though not entirely, complete between 1942 and 1945 for this concert series. The programmes from this series are from orchestra concerts. These were mainly given by the London Symphony Orchestra until 1945 and by the New London Orchestra from 1945 onwards. There are also programmes from a preceding series entitled the "Sunday celebrity concerts", from 1941 to mid-1942. The collection also contains programmes from the "London Theatre Concerts". These feature both chamber music and orchestral concerts, and the collection has programmes from both the 1937-8 and 1938-9 series. Opera programmes are often associated with the Music and Drama Society, and a significant amount of opera programmes in the collection feature the New London Opera Company. The opera programmes in the collection largely date from 1946 to 1951.
Arrangement:
Programmes are arranged chronologically. The exception to this is a small amount of programmes from 1941, which are kept separately at the beginning of the other 1941 programmes.
The collection ranges from 1933 onwards, with virtually every item dating from the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Within the collection, performances from the 1940s are particularly well documented. The largest concert series represented in the collection is the “Sunday concerts”: the collection is particularly, though not entirely, complete between 1942 and 1945 for this concert series. The programmes from this series are from orchestra concerts. These were mainly given by the London Symphony Orchestra until 1945 and by the New London Orchestra from 1945 onwards. There are also programmes from a preceding series entitled the "Sunday celebrity concerts", from 1941 to mid-1942. The collection also contains programmes from the "London Theatre Concerts". These feature both chamber music and orchestral concerts, and the collection has programmes from both the 1937-8 and 1938-9 series. Opera programmes are often associated with the Music and Drama Society, and a significant amount of opera programmes in the collection feature the New London Opera Company. The opera programmes in the collection largely date from 1946 to 1951.
Arrangement:
Programmes are arranged chronologically. The exception to this is a small amount of programmes from 1941, which are kept separately at the beginning of the other 1941 programmes.
Format
Date range of collection
1933 -
Accumulation Dates
-
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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