Edward Elgar: 'Starlight Express'. Sketches, mostly in short score
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Some sketches are running drafts of substantial sections, others are single leaves relating to short passages only. In both sketches and autograph full score, Add MS 52530 A C, reference is made to the pagination of the libretto, Add MS 69832 A C. Identification in the following description is m...
Edward Elgar: Correspondence relating to 'Starlight Express'
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Letters, mostly addressed to Elgar, from Robin Legge, Lena Ashwell, Algernon Blackwood and others, relating to the composition and production of 'Starlight Express'; 1915-1916. Mostly signed. With records of the takings at the Kingsway Theatre, 29 Dec. 1915-29 Jan. 1916 (ff. 13-17). Reference is...