A collection of 33 programmes from the Bach Cantata Club, 1926 to 1930. The collection also contains prospectuses and other items of performance ephemera, which include press cuttings and correspondence to members. The collection contains a few analytical programmes, and a number of these contain musical examples.

The majority of concerts took place at St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster; a significant amount of the remainder took place at the Royal College of Music. The collection also includes as small amount of programmes from the Queen’s Hall, Duke’s Hall (Royal Academy of Music) and the chapel at Buckingham Palace.

Charles Kennedy Scott was the conductor for the majority of concerts; other concerts within the series included conductors such as Adrian Boult and Ralph Vaughan Williams. When instrumentalists were used in concerts, the group was sometimes entitled “Bach chamber orchestra” and at other times only a list of players was given. The concerts usually followed the pattern that sacred concerts were given at St. Margaret’s Church, and secular concerts given at the Royal College of Music or the Royal Academy of Music. Some programmes in the collection are from joint concerts with the Oriana Madrigal Choir (which was founded and conducted by Charles Kennedy Scott).

The volume bears the inscription “ex libris Caroli Sanford Terry”, and was given to the Royal College of Music as part of the Charles Sanford Terry bequest.

Arrangement:
The collection is arranged chronologically.

1926 - 1930

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Not Specific

• Royal Academy of Music -
• Terry, Charles Sanford -
• Bach Cantata Club -
• Oriana Madrigal Choir -
• Scott, Charles Kennedy -

• Coliseum, Trecynon
• Pavilion, Torquay
• Mute, Island of
• Tredegar
• Royal College of Music
• Buckingham Palace
• St. Margaret's Church, Westminster
• Workmen's hall cinema, Tredegar
• Torquay
• Scotland
• Royal Academy of Music
• Trecynon
• Queen's Hall, London
• Royal Academy of Music: Duke's Hall
• Royal College of Music

• 20th century - early 1900-1930

• Correspondence
• Analytical Notes
• Musical Examples
• Press Cuttings

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During the course of 2008 a new facility providing collection storage space, reader facilities and office space will created for the Centre for Performance History at College Hall, the site of the RCM's Hall of Residence in London W12. This will eventually offer improved access to researchers, and provide the collection with a secure and stable environment, all in one place. In order that the relevant parts of the collection can be packed and prepared for the move, and then re-shelved at the new facility as expeditiously as possible, all facilities and services (including photographic services and access to the programmes collection) of the Centre for Performance History are suspended until 12 January 2009. The Museum of Instruments will continue to operate a full service (including public opening during the summer vacation) throughout this period. We apologize for the inevitable inconvenience that this closure will cause to colleagues, students, researchers and members of the public, but believe that the improvements that will result will benefit the long-term preservation of the collections and will provide enhanced access to them for all users.