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Collection name
Wessex Philharmonic Orchestra: Linen Guild Concert (1942)
Unique identifier
26D
Description
A collection of material relating to a Recital given by Maurice Cole (piano), Harold Fairhurst (violin) and Margaret Bissett (alto) on 28 November 1942 at St. Peter's Hall, Bournemouth, in aid of the Linen Guild of the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, held as a single folder within an extended sequence of material relating to the Wessex Philharmonic Orchestra housed by the library of the Royal College of Music (see also boxes M39 and M40 and other items at shelf mark 26D).
The collection includes a handbill announcement, a poster, a programme and a programme with historical and biographical notes, as well as handwritten and printed correspondence, seating plans for the venue, receipts and other financial documentation and miscellaneous materials relating to the organization of the performance.
There is also a preliminary announcement/handbill for Holidays at Home, Six Concerts given on 24 and 31 August and 7, 14, 21 and 28 September 1942, also at St. Peter's Hall, Bournemouth. This document does not provide any definite programme information but does cite the involvement of the pianists Maurice Cole, Malcolm Sargent, Phyllis Sellick and Cyril Smith and the New Fairhurst String Orchestra and the Jacques String Orchestra.
Date range
1942 - 1942
Associated People and Organisations
Wessex Philharmonic Orchestra -
Smith, Cyril -
Sellick, Phyllis -
Sargent, Malcolm -
Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, Linen Guild -
Jacques Orchestra -
Fairhurst, Harold -
Fairhurst String Orchestra -
Cole, Maurice -
Bissett, Margaret -
Associated Places
St. Peter's Hall, Bournemouth
Associated Times
20th century - mid 1931-1970
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Correspondence
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Handbills
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Loans of performance sets to individual societies or persons; binding; reprographics; photocopying; microform printing
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Royal College Of Music, Library
London SW7 2BS Open Map
DOMUS
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http://www.rcm.ac.uk/library/
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Founded in 1883, the RCM Library primarily supports the performance, study and research of RCM members. It is also open to the public for reference and research. It contains some 300,000 items, including significant collections of early printed and manuscript material from the 16th to 19th centuries, given to the College upon its foundation, specifically the Libraries of the Sacred Harmonic Society and of the Concerts of Ancient Music. Donations since have included autographs of composers of international renown, amongst them Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, as well as manuscripts and archives of major British composers. Although a British bias is apparent, the collection also has significant German and Italian manuscripts and early printed holdings. Later acquisitions of printed music include large quantities of out-of-print material, and sizeable collections of performance sets. Audio-visual holdings and the RCM's own sound archive's are also extensive.
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