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Isolde Menges Collection (1908-1957): Box 3

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Collection Title

Isolde Menges Collection (1908-1957): Box 3

Description

Programmes of concerts given in places other than the British Isles by the violinist Isolde Menges. Includes programmes from European and American tours, and a programme from a concert given by Menges when she was 14. Programmes for concerts given by the Menges String Quartet, including concerts where extra musicians joined to form the "Menges String Quintet" and "Menges String Sextet". Includes booklets of "press opinions".

Contents:
Isolde Menges concerts:
Belgium:
Liége: Salle du Conservatoire Royal de Liége (1 programme)
Germany:
Darmstadt: Saale des Musik-Vereins (1 programme; Menges is listed as being 14 years old)
Wiesbaden: Kurhaus zu Wiesbaden (1 programme)
The Netherlands:
Amsterdam: Concertgebouw (2 programmes)
Groningen: unknown venues (2 programmes)
The Hague: Diligentia (7 programmes); Muzieklyceum (1 programme); Pulchri Studio (1 programme); Van Ouwenlaan 1 (1 programme)
Rotterdam: Rotterdamsche Kunstkring
Unknown location (4 programmes)
United States:
Baltimore: Lyric Theatre (1 programme)
Boston: Symphony Hall (4 programmes)
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: T.M. Sinclair Memorial Chapel, Coe College (1 programme)
Chicago: Orchestra Hall (1 programme); Geo. M. Cohen’s Grand Opera House (1 programme) (other side contains notice of an Orchestra Hall orchestral concert)
Kewanee, Illinois: Kewanee High School (1 programme)
New York: Aeolian Hall (3 programmes); Brick Church (1 programme); Hotel Biltmore (1 programme)
Seattle: Meany Hall, University of Washington (1 programme)
Unknown location: (1 programme)
Press reviews associated with American tour (4 booklets)

Menges String Quartet Concerts:
London:
Aeolian Hall (2 programmes)
Crosby Hall, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea (23 programmes)
Harrow School (1 programme)
Kensington Town Hall (1 programme)
London Hospital Library (1 programme)
National Gallery (38 programmes) (these concerts were part of the wartime National Gallery Concert series; some programmes feature Myra Hess (piano) and some feature the Menges String Sextet)
Mary Ward Settlement Theatre (1 programme)
Royal College of Music (3 programmes)
Royal Exchange, Concert Hall (1 programme)
Sadler’s Wells (1 programme)
Savoy Hotel (1 programme)
Wigmore Hall (30 programmes) (includes programmes from string quintet and string sextet concerts; includes programmes from “The complete string quartets of Beethoven” 1938; includes one concert with Leon Goosens, oboe)

Rest of British Isles:
Bedford: High School Hall, Bedford (1 programme)
Bournemouth: St. Peter’s Hall (1 programme)
Brentwood: Brentwood School Memorial Hall (1 programme)
Bristol: Colston Hall (1 programme)
Bryanston: (1 programme)
Cambridge: Guildhall (1 programme)
Chadderton: Town Hall (1 programme)
Derby: (1 programme)
Dorking: Dorking Halls (1 programme); Oddfellows’ Hall (1 programme)
Dublin: Member’s Hall, Royal Dublin Society (4 programmes)
Dursley: Lister Hall (1 programme)
Edinburgh: Freemasons’ Hall (1 programme)
Exeter: Exeter Cathedral (1 programme)
Farnworth: Centenary Hall, Church Street (1 programme)
Glasgow: McLellan Galleries (2 programmes); Athenaeum Theatre (1 programme)
Grayshott Hall: (1 programme)
Guildford: (1 programme)
Haslingden: Hasllingden Arts Club (1 programme)
Hastings: White Rock Pavilion (4 programmes)
Ipswich: Girls’ Central School Hall (1 programme)
Leicester: Leicester Chamber Music Club (2 programmes)
Louth: Louth Music Club (1 programme)
Manchester: Houldsworth Hall, Deansgate (1 programme)
Middleton: Co-operative Hall (1 programme)
Oxford: Balliol College (1 programme); Holywell Music Room (4 programmes; programmes for complete Beethoven quartet series); Sheldonian Theatrs (2 programmes); Town Hall (5 programmes)
Sherborne: Sherborne Girl’s School (1 programme)
Winchester: Guildhall (2 programmes)
Unknown place: (1 programme)

Belgium:
Liége: Salle du Conservatoire Royal de Liége (1 programme)
The Netherlands:
The Hague: Diligentia (2 programmes)
Germany:
Unknown location: (1 programme)

Press reviews associated with Menges Quartet (8 booklets)

Arrangement:
Isolde Menges concerts; Menges String Quartet concerts. “Isolde Menges concerts” sorted first into European then American countries, then by alphabetical order of country. Then they are sorted by alphabetical order of city name, then alphabetical order of concert venue, then by date. “Menges String Quartet concerts” sorted into London, rest of British Isles, Europe then America. Europe is further sorted into alphabetical order of country name. Then, British Isles, European and American programmes are sorted by alphabetical order of city/place. Then all of the quartet programmes are sorted by alphabetical order of city then chronological date. Booklets of press opinions follow the sequence.

Format

Date range of collection

1908 - 1956

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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

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http://www.rcm.ac.uk

cph@rcm.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7 589 4340

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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.

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Closed

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