All full scores in MS. Many include original music from published copies, cut up and stuck in as the basis of the arrangement. Sweeter than Songs of Summer (music by Frederick Bridge) - arr. for orchestra, Nov 1953. A Star was his candle (music ...
Comprises sketches & complete works in MS by John Ogdon, almost entirely unpublished. Virtually every item has additional notes on covers eg. telephone numbers, memoranda, shopping lists, appointments, suggested programmes.. . Also includes s...
Ogdon, John Andrew Howard (1937-1989), composer, pianist
There is one programme of a competition at which John Cameron was an adjudicator; one programme of a production for Sadlers Wells in which John Cameron appeared; and the rest are all programmes of productions in which John Cameron's students ...
Cameron, John Ewen (1918-2002), bass baritone singer
Letters to Hubert Harry, pianist, from Hilda Collens, Walter and Ida Carroll and Sir Clifford Curzon. Also contains some typeset scores of songs composed by Harry.
Five letters from Holst to a Mrs Cohen, with a signed postcard. Mrs Cohen appears to have hosted Holst during the Leeds Triennial Festival 1925, and to have invited him on several occasions to holiday with her and her husband in the Lake District...
Copies of published works by Thomas Pitfield donated to the RNCM library by Albert Griffiths. Some of the pieces are signed by Thomas Pitfield, being dedicated to Albert Griffiths with a letter from Thomas Pitfield. Also includes a number of pro...
Pitfield, Thomas Baron (1903-1999), Composer, artist
Scores, programmes, news cuttings and correspondence relating to Frank Wright, conductor, donated as a gift of the Estate of Dr John Hosier, CBE, Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
Wright, Frank (1901-1970), Member of the Order of the British Empire, conductor, composer
A library of songs in MS, collected by the soprano Ena Mitchell. Some items are inscribed to Ena Mitchell. Some items are inscribed Vida Harford - these may be a separate collection, although the order in which the items were found implied all we...
Scores, letters and other papers mainly from Thomas Pitfield to Canon Ridgway. In the main the papers relate to Thomas Pitfield's morality play, 'Adam and the Creatures', which was published in 1968. It appears that Maurice Ridgwa...
Pitfield, Thomas Baron (1903-1999), Composer, artist