A. Letters of the composer Maude Valérie White (b.1855, d.1937) to various correspondents; circa 1900-1915, n.d. One with an autograph musical quotation. Purchased at Mullock’s, 8 May 2008. ff. 1-12.
B. Letters of the music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor to Eric V. Falk, Edward Sackville-West and Jack Rathbone; 1930-1940. Written from Vienna, Copenhagen, Killiney, co. Dublin, and from London while on military service. Presented by Mrs Alison Watson, niece of Eric Falk, 23 November 2007. ff. ...
C. Photographs of the bandleader and dancer Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson (1914-1921); 1937?, circa 1940. Three photographs. Two are portraits by Angus McBean. Transferred from the British Library Sound Archive, 7 May 2007. ff. 32-34.
E. Music manuscripts, concert programmes and flyers and photographs formerly owned by the conductor, clarinettist and bandleader Rudolph Dunbar (b.1907, d. 1988); 1930-1959, n.d.. Presented by Alyn Shipton and transferred from the British Library Sound Archive, 10 August 2006. ff. 36-90. 1. f...
F. ‘Preludium’, for violin and piano, by Louis Brunelli; 1952. Autograph score and part in ink, with pencil additions. Dedicated to ‘Antoinette’. Transferred from the Royal Academy of Music, 2007. ff. 91-94r.
G. Letters of composers and an article by Philip Lévi; circa 1967, 1974, n.d.. Presented by Professor David Charlton, 22 November 2005. ff. 95-107r. 1. ff. 95-96. A letter from Priaulx Rainier to a Mrs Smith, with a programme note for her String Quartet (1939); 1974. 2. ff. 97-101. A letter f...
I. Musical fragments by George Crumb (b. 1929); 1976-2002. All autograph or part autograph, and all signed by the composer. Purchased from Lisa Cox, 23 June 2004, cat. 45, no. 83, and at Sotheby’s, 23 May 2007, lot 47. ff. 111-117. 1. ff. 111-112. ‘Otherworldly Sonorities’, for two amplified...
J. Milton Babbitt: ‘Soupir’, for soprano voice, violin, cello, clarinet, flute and piano, words by Albert Giraud; [1987?]. Signed pencil sketch. English. With a photocopy of a letter dated 1988 from Babbitt to an unknown recipient, identifying the music as his contribution to the ‘Pierrot Pro...