John Tavener, correspondence, articles and reviews
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, annotated typescript and autograph drafts of articles and reviews by Tavener on musicians for Temenos Academy Review and other publications and press cuttings.
Three ringbound photocopied scores, with a letter from Chester music. 'Mother and Child' by Sir John Tavener, score for choir, with letter from Chester music. Two copies of 'Shanti-Kathleen' by Sir John Tavener, score for voice and oboe.
Typed draft ‘Perennial Values Against Modern Decadence’, Jan 1981. Typed draft and photocopy of publication, ‘Type or Technology? A typographer’s personal view’, 1991. Typed book review for St. John Perse: Letters, translated and edited by Arthur J. Knodel, Princeton University Press. Type...
Autograph draft book review of Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion, World Wisdom Books, 2008. Typed forward, with letter, for Foundations of Oriental Art, writings by Titus Burckhardt. Autograph draft book review for Frithjof Schuon, Principles ...
Kqthleen Raine. Memorial Lecture. 'Katheleen Raine and the Vision of Reality'. Autograph and Typescript draft annotated, cover text/calligraphy. ‘Reading David Gascoyne’s Miserere’ autograph and typescript drafts, annotated, and correspondence.
From Script to Print by Brian Keeble. Notes for a five to six day course on typographc instruction on the evolution of type forms, inlcuding correspondence, notes and text examples to demonstrate typography.
Autograph letters from Thetis Blacker, artist, to Brian Keeble, relating to Blacker's article contributions for Temenos and Temenos Academy Review and her lectures for Temenos Academy, 1998-2004. Includes final typescript draft of ‘Peregrinations: Journeys with Kathleen Raine’, 2004 and ‘Pearl’...