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Collection name Gregynog Press Ephemera (1924-62)
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Description 4 boxes of ephemera related to the Gregynog Press, a private printing press founded by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies of Gregynog Hall an estate near Newtown, Powys, Mid-Wales set up in 1920 for international conferences and as a centre for music. The collection mostly consists of Orders of Service for conferences, and church services, but there are also many concert programmes related to the Gregynog Festival of Music and Poetry as well as stand-alone concerts given by the National Council of Music. The Gregynog Festival of Music and Poetry began in 1933 and the collection contains fesitval programmes along with programmes for individual days of the festival. In 1954 the festival gave the Welsh premiere of Stravinsky's 'In Memoriam Dylan Thomas' There are many items missing, a handlist of the ephemera exists in Dorothy Harrop's 'The Gregynog Press', which catalogues all the items. The collection is on long term loan to the Museum from the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, which holds more of the collection, including the missing items. Items from the collection will be part of an exhibition in July of 2007.

Artists include: Montgomeryshire Festival Chorus, Walford Davies, Tom Pickering, The Gregynog Choir, Festival choirs from Newtown, Llandinum and Caersws, Dilys Jones, W.R. Allen, Dorothy Silk, Welsh Symphony Orchestra, The English Singers, Lascelles Abercrombie, Ernest Hughes, Charles Clements, Mary Jarred, Michael Mulliner, The Aberystwyth String Players, Elsie Suddaby, Haydn Lewis, Arwel Hughes, Ian Parrot, Chamber Ensemble of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Clifford Bunford, Mary Randell as well as instrumentalists from Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff.
Date range 1924 - 1962
Associated People and Organisations Abercrombie, Lascelles - Aberystwyth String Players, The - Bunford, Clifford - Chamber Ensemble of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth - Clements, Charles - Davies, Walford - English Singers - Gregynog Choir - Hughes, Arwel - Hughes, Ernest - Jarred, Mary - Jarred, Mary 1899 - 1993 Jones, Dilys - Lewis, Haydn - Montgomeryshire Festival Chorus - Mulliner, Michael - Parrot, Ian - Pickering, Tom - Randell, Mary - Silk, Dorothy - Suddaby, Elsie - Welsh Symphony Orchestra -
Associated Places Gregynog
Associated Times 20th century - early 1900-1930 20th century - mid 1931-1970
Associated Content First performances Correspondence Brochures
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