MSS Mus. 411-413. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxxvi-lxxxviii. ‘Communist Manifesto Centenary Pageant’, to a script by Montagu Slater, with music for military band and chorus; [1948]. The music for the pageant was organised by Bush, and included contributions by Christian Darnton, Inglis Gundry, Phil Cardew, Rutland Boughton, Gwendoline Mullings, Malcolm Arnold, Aubrey Bowman and Bernard Stevens, as well as Bush himself. Performed at the Royal Albert Hall, April 1948. Add. 69023 is a typewrit...
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Montagu Slater, author: Rutland Boughton, composer: Malcolm Henry Arnold, composer: Aubrey Bowman, composer: Philip Christian Darnton, composer: Inglis Gundry, composer and writer: Bernard George Stevens, composer: Philip Cardew, clarinettist, band leader and arranger: Gwendoline Mullings, compo...
MSS Mus. 414, 415. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxxix, xc. ‘Labour Monthly: "Fifty Fighting Years"’, film score, for clarinet, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, percussion, strings and chorus; [1971]. Music for the film Fifty Fighting Years, on the history of the journal Labour Monthly, written by Stanley Forman, Ivor Montagu and Roger Woddis and co-directed by Forman and Roland Bischoff. Two volumes.
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Stanley Forman, writer: Ivor Montagu, writer: Roger Woddis, writer: Roland Bischoff, film director: 'Labour Monthly: "Fifty Fighting Years"', music by A. D. Bush , for the film written by Stanley Forman, Ivor Montagu and Roger Woddis and co-directed by Forman and Roland Bischoff: [1971].
MSS Mus. 422-424. Alan Bush Collection. Vols xcvii-xcix. Choral music (without orchestra); 1927-circa 1985, n.d. Scores, in ink, unless stated otherwise. Three volumes. 360 x 275mm.
MSS Mus. 425, 426. Alan Bush Collection. Vols c, ci. Songs for voice and piano; [1929-81]. The score of ‘Cradle Song for an Unwanted Child’ (words, Randall Swingler), arranged for solo voice and piano, is Add. 52464 B, ff. 3-7. Two volumes.
MSS Mus. 805-811. May and May Business Archive. Vols lxv-lxxi. Multiple old stock cards for sold items; 1964-1998. Arranged alphabetically mainly by author and partly by catalogue title. Seven boxes. 131 x 203mm.
MSS Mus. 812-816. May and May Business Archive. Vols lxxii-lxx. Stock cards for unsold items; 1964-1998. Arranged alphabetically mainly by author and partly by catalogue title, as follows. Five boxes. 131 x 203mm.