P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College Exhibition
Scope & Content:
Material relating to an exhibition held at Dulwich College to commemorate the centenary of the publication of P.G. Wodehouse’s first novel The Pothunters, 15 Oct 2002.
MSS Mus. 74-77. CHAGRIN COLLECTION. Vols. lxxiii-lxxvi. Papers relating to the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain and to the European Broadcating Union; 1957-72. Four volumes.
Scope & Content:
Composers' Guild of Great Britain: Agendas, minutes, circular letters, reports and correspondence: 1957-72.
MSS Mus. 80-83. CHAGRIN COLLECTION. Vols. lxxix-lxxxii. Papers relating to the Society for the Promotion of New Music (until 1951 the Committee for the Promotion of New Music, under the auspices of the Arrangers, Composers and Copyists’ Section of the Musicians’ Union); 1943-73. Four volumes.
Scope & Content:
Society for the Promotion of New Music: Minutes and other papers: 1943-73.
MSS Mus. 255-256. ARTHUR BENJAMIN COLLECTION. Vols. v-vi. ‘The Imposter’. Dyeline copy of the autograph vocal score of ‘Tartuffe’, with the composer’s original title. With a typewritten list of characters. Two volumes. 380 x 280mm.
MSS Mus. 367-370. Alan Bush Collection. Vols xlii-xlv. Draft short score, in pencil, with occasional annotations in ink; [1950]. The score is mainly written as a piano reduction, and is complete, with the following exceptions: the Prelude; certain pages of the Minstrel’s song at the start of Act II; the Interlude between scenes 1 and 2 of Act II; and Margaret’s song from the start of Act II, scene 3. In this score and the vocal score (MSS Mus. 371, 372), Act II, scene 3 is given its original...
MSS Mus. 371, 372. Alan Bush Collection. Vols xlvi, xlvii. Vocal score; [1950], n.d. Photostats of the composer’s ink score of the piano reduction, with autograph title pages. With a letter from the composer to David and Diana Ellenberg, dated 6 Oct. 1950, explaining that the overture and passages linking scenes have not yet been composed and are therefore not included (MS Mus. 371, f. i). Purchased from Peter Moore, Esq., 5 Jan. 1999. Two volumes. 368 x 263mm.
MSS Mus. 373-376. Alan Bush Collection. Vols xlviii-li. Full score, in ink; [1950-51]. Four volumes. 365 x 270mm. Blue buckram bindings with gilt lettering on the spine and cover.