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Collection name National Gallery Concert (1940)
Unique identifier X.439/11999
Description A single handbill for a National Gallery Concert, given at the National Gallery, London on 19 June 1940.

This was a performance of Schubert, String Quartet in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' and Brahms, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, op.115, given by the Menges String Quartet (Isolde Menges, Beatrice Carrelle, John Yewe Dyer and Ivor Jones) and Frederick Thurston (clarinet).

There is a note indicating that the concert was intended to have been given by the Griller String Quartet, but that the group had to pull out due to the 'indisposition of Colin Hampton'.
Date range 1940 - 1949
Associated People and Organisations Thurston, Frederick - Schubert, Franz - National Gallery Wartime concerts - Menges, Isolde 1893 - 1976 Menges String Quartet - Menges String Quartet - Jones, Ivor - Griller String Quartet - Dyer, John Yewe - Carrelle, Beatrice - Brahms, Johannes -
Associated Places National Gallery
Associated Times 20th century - mid 1931-1970 World War II 1939-45
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