Rosenthal Correspondence: Letters to and from the critic and writer on music Harold Rosenthal (b.1917, d.1987); circa 1953-1986
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MSS Mus. 1609-1624. Selected correspondence with singers, conductors, agents, librettists and composers, in connection with Rosenthal’s editorship of the magazine Opera from 1953 to 1986. Purchased from Mrs Phyllis Rosenthal, 17 October, 1999. 16 volumes.
MSS Mus. 1626-1677. Letters and papers of the pianist Harriet Cohen (b. 1895, d. 1967): 1846-1967, n.d. The collection consists mostly of letters, with some telegrams, photographs, photographic negatives and other documents. Some of the material was formerly owned by Arnold Bax and the colle...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Irish, Russian, and Spanish
Harriet Cohen papers. B. Letters to Harriet Cohen ‘from close men friends’
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Vols. ix-xiii. ‘Trunk 2’: letters to Harriet Cohen from correspondents including the cellist Gaspar Cassadó, the writer Carlo Levi, Lord Leslie Runciman and Lord Snowden; 1919-1962, n.d. The trunk was labelled ‘Letters from close men friends’, and a note inside read ‘Lovers and Greatest Men Frien...
Harriet Cohen papers. Letters to Harriet Cohen ‘from close men friends’
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Vol. xi. Levi-De Mamblas. ff. 282. 345 x 240mm. includes: ff. 1-118. Harriet Cohen, CBE; pianist: Carlo Levi, Italian writer: Letters and telegrams from Carlo Levi to Harriet Cohen: 1949-1953: Eng, Fr. ff. 119-226 Harriet Cohen, CBE; pianist: Josiah Noel Macy, American newspaper proprietor: L...
Harriet Cohen Papers. Letters used for A Bundle of Time
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Vol. xiv. Adams-Olga Cohen. ff. 232. 300 x 260mm includes: ff. 2-3r. Harriet Cohen, CBE; pianist: F. P. Adams: Letter from F. P. Adams to Harriet Cohen: 1932. ff. 4-5r. Harriet Cohen, CBE; pianist: Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duque de Alba: Letters from the Du...
Vols. xiv-xxiii. ‘Trunk 3’: letters to Cohen; 1910-1965, n.d. They were originally contained in one ‘Concertina’ folder and numerous manila envelopes. Those in the ‘Concertina’ folder were letters used by Cohen in preparing her book of memoirs, A Bundle of Time, in which many of them are quoted....
Concert programmes collected by Bradshaw. There are many items across the programmes relating to Roberto Gerhard. Folder 1: Two programmes, 1968-1992, with inserts. One has light annotations in the front and back. Folder 2: Four programmes, 1973-1989 Folder 3: Two programmes, 1965-1973, and o...