A collection of one box of programmes from St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, from 1955 to 2001. The collection includes programmes from a wide variety of concert types, including sacred choral concerts, small-scale orchestral concerts and solo recitals. There are a number of programmes from concerts organised by the London Bach Group in the 1950s; these include music by a wide variety of composers, as well as by J.S. Bach. There is a programme from the inaugural concert by the Schubert Society, on 19/11/1957. The collection contains programmes from a disparate group of performing ensembles: these include a number of programmes from the Board of Trade Choir, La Spiritata Chamber Orchestra (chiefly from the 1970s) and Westminster Choral Society.

Arrangement:
The collection is arranged chronologically.

1955 - 2001

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Not Specific

• Board of Trade Choir -
• London Bach Group -
• Schubert Society -
• Spiritata Chamber Orchestra, La -
• Westminster Choral Society -

• London [England]
• St. James's Church, Piccadilly

• 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.