Letters, statements of support and signed petitions sent to the Salman Rushdie campaign group in response to requests for support of the author in the face of the fatwa that had been placed upon him.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian
MSS Mus. 398-403. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxiii-lxxviii. ‘Pageant of Co-operation’, to a scenario by Montagu Slater and André van Gyseghem, for military band and chorus; 1938. Music for the pageant produced at Wembley Stadium on 2 July 1938. Elsewhere entitled ‘Towards Tomorrow’. Six volumes.
Scope & Content:
Montagu Slater, author: André van Gyseghem, writer: Music by A. D. Bush for a 'Pageant of Co-operation' , to a scenario by Montagu Slater and André van Gyseghem: 1938.
Business correspondence and papers of Dr. Ernst Roth (1 June 1896 – 17 July 1971), Music Publications and Production Director of Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd. from 1945; later Managing Director and Deputy Chairman until his retirement in 1964. The files were accumulated in the course of business inv...
Business files of Leslie Boosey (1887–1979), chairman of Boosey & Co. from 1920 to 1930 and of Boosey & Hawkes almost continuously from 1930 to 1964. This sub-series consists of two sub-sub-series of files of general correspondence accumulated by Leslie Boosey himself, and one piecemeal ...
Correspondence with musicians or composers with whom Boosey & Hawkes considered their association most important. These papers were extracted from their original files some time after they ceased to be current, but before their acquisition by the British Library. In some cases, these files...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish