One folder of programmes from South Africa, from 1900 onwards. The collection includes a significant amount of items from the early twentieth century. The majority of items in the collection are from Cape Town.

Cape Town (1900-)
The majority of programmes are from concerts given in the City Hall. These were largely orchestral concerts, including performances by the Capetown Municipal Orchestra and the Capetown Orchestra. Other venues represented in the collection include the following: Opera House; Hiddingh Hall (University of Cape Town); Nico Malan Opera House; South Africa College of Music.

Other (1900-)
The collection also includes programmes from Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria. These include programmes from the following venues: City Hall, Durban; Town Hall, Durban; Masonic Hall, Jeppe Street, Johannesburg; Rhodes Park, Kensington, Johannesburg; Opera House, Pretoria. In addition, the collection includes a number of items from tours, multi-venue programmes and programmes where the location within South Africa is not possible to ascertain.

Arrangement:
The programmes are divided by town/city, then by concert venue, then by date.

1900 -

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Not Specific

• Capetown Municipal Orchestra -
• Capetown Orchestra -

• Cape Town
• City Hall, Durban
• Durban
• Johannesburg
• Masonic Hall, Johannesburg
• Nico Malan Opera House, Cape Town
• Opera House, Cape Town
• Opera House, Pretoria
• Pretoria
• Rhodes Park, Johannesburg
• South Africa
• South Africa College of Music, Cape Town
• Town Hall, Durban
• University of Cape Town: Hiddingh Hall

• 20th century - early 1900-1930
• 20th century - late 1971-1999
• 20th century - mid 1931-1970

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The Portraits and Performance History Collection and its associated reading room is housed in a recently adapted space within the RCM's College Hall, its hall of residence for students. There is step-free access for visitors.

The Centre for Performance History (CPH) is a research centre and is also responsible for the stewardship of two well-established RCM research collections, the Museum of Instruments and the Portraits and Performance History Collection (PPHC). The latter houses a diverse collection relating to the history of performance including the RCM’s internationally famous collection of images, comprising 340 original portraits and sculptures and 25,000 prints and photographs, forming the most comprehensive archive of likenesses of musicians in the UK. The collection of 600,000 concert programmes from 1720 to the present day is of major importance for research into the history of music, society and culture.