A collection of one box of programmes from St. Paul’s Cathedral, from 1873 to 1997. The collection includes programmes from concerts which took place on the steps of the cathedral and in St. Paul’s Churchyard.

The nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century programmes are from festival services, including London Gregorian Choral Association (1873) and London Church Choir Association (1899 and 1909). There is a significant amount of material from the inter-war years, which includes programmes from memorial services – for instance, Hubert Parry in 1918 – and from musical services of large-scale choral works such as Bach’s B Minor Mass. There are six programmes from the “National Welsh Festival”. These programmes are largely in Welsh, and are from services given on the even of St. David’s Day in 1914 and 1919-1923.

The programmes from 1940 onwards are more diverse than the programmes from the previous years: there are programmes from concerts as well from church services. In addition to concert performances of sacred choral works, there are also programmes from recitals – in particular from organ recitals. Choral concert material includes programmes from concerts given by the University of London Musical Society in the 1950s and material from Berlioz performances in the 1960s. The latter contains programmes from performances of Grande Messe de Morts (Berlioz) conducted by Colin Davis, in 1966 and 1969. The 1969 programme contains loose performance ephemera, including a ticket, reviews and press cuttings. However, there are also a significant amount of programmes from religious services: these include memorial services – for instance, a programme from a service to commemorate Myra Hess in 1965 – celebratory services and special services.

Arrangement:
The programmes are arranged chronologically.

1873 - 1997

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Not Specific

• Berlioz, Hector -
• Davis, Colin 1927 -
• Hess, Myra -
• London Church Choir Association -
• London Gregorian Choral Association -
• National Welsh Festival -
• Parry, C. Hubert Hastings -
• University of London Musical Society -

• London [England]
• St. Paul's Cathedral

• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
• 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875
• 20th century - early 1900-1930
• 20th century - late 1971-1999

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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.