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Collection Summary

Collection Title

Programmes (1839-1981)

Unique Identifier

P

Description

A collection consisting of 2 boxes of miscellaneous programmes from a range of venues, concerts and performers from 1839 to 1981. They include:

* His Majesty's Theatre
* Crystal Palace
* Sacred Harmonic Society Nottingham
* Stalybridge Harmonic Society
* Winter Gardens Bournemouth
* Harrison Concerts Birmingham
* Blundellsands
* Blackpool Musical Festival
* Brand Land Concerts
* National Gallery Concerts
* Royal Festival Hall
* Royal Albert Hall
* Mary Wakefield
* Westmorland Festival
* Three Choirs Festival
* Paderewski
* Anna Palova
* Cortot
* Nellie Melba
* Rachmaninoff
* Boult
* Beecham
* Petri
* Schnabel
* Holst
* Szigeti
* Rosenthal
* Ena Mitchell
* D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
* Sargent
* Barbirolli
* London Symphony Orchestra
* Clara Butt
* Moiseiwitsch
* Rubinstein

Some programmes have reviews and a few are autographed by the performers

Format

Date range of collection

1839 - 1981

Accumulation Dates

-

Suggested Audience

Not Specific

Associated People or Organisations

• Barbirolli, John -
• Beecham, Thomas -
• Blackpool Musical Festival -
• Boult, Adrian -
• Brand Lane Concerts -
• Butt, Clara -
• Cortot, Alfred -
• D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 1879 -
• Harrison Concerts, Birmingham -
• Holst, Gustav -
• London Symphony Orchestra -
• Melba, Nellie -
• Mitchell, Ena -
• Moiseiwitsch, Benno -
• National Gallery Concerts -
• Paderewski, Ignacy Jan -
• Palova, Anna -
• Petri -
• Rachmaninoff, Sergey -
• Rosenthal, Moriz -
• Rubinstein, Anton -
• Sacred Harmonic Society, Nottingham -
• Sargent, Malcolm -
• Schnabel -
• Stalybridge Harmonic Society -
• Szigeti, Joseph -
• Three Choirs Festival -
• Wakefield, Mary -
• Westmorland Festival -

Associated Places

• Blundellsands
• Crystal Palace
• Royal Albert Hall
• Royal Festival Hall
• Winter Gardens, Bournemouth

Associated Times

• 19th century - early Victorian 1837-1850
• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
• 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875
• 20th century - early 1900-1930
• 20th century - late 1971-1999
• 20th century - mid 1931-1970

This collection is about

• Press Cuttings
• Photographs
• Annotations
• Signatures
• Analytical Notes
• Musical Examples
• Word books

Location Details

Royal Northern College of Music

124 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9RD United Kingdom

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Website

http://www.rncm.ac.uk/library

Email

archives@rncm.ac.uk

Telephone

0161 9075211

Visiting Information

Membership fee; photocopying

Collections Overview

The Library's primary purpose is to support the work of the College in teaching, learning, performance and research through the timely provision to students and staff of appropriate resources in printed audio, video and online formats.

For details of other collections held at the same location: See the location record

Additional Collection Information

Accrual Status

open

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