MS Mus. 400. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. lxxv. 3rd clarinet, 1st and 2nd bassoons and E flat cornet. The parts for flutes, oboes, E flat clarinet and 1st and 2nd clarinets are lacking. ff. i + 125.
MSS Mus. 404, 405. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxix, lxxx. ‘Festival of Music for the People’, music for a pageant to a scenario by Randall Swingler, for military band; [1939]. The music for the pageant was organised by Bush, and included contributions by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Cooke, Elisabeth Lutyens, Edmund Rubbra, Erik Chisholm, Christian Darnton, Frederic Austin, Norman Demuth, Elizabeth Maconchy, Alan Rawsthorne and Bush himself. Performed at the Royal Albert Hall on 1 April 19...
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM; composer: Band parts for 'Flourish for Wind Band': 1939: Copies. Randall Carline Swingler, poet and novelist: Settings of his verse in compositions of A. D. Bush: 1936-71.
MS Mus. 406. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. lxxxi. ‘The Star Turns Red’, incidental music to the play by Sean O’Casey, for 3 trumpets, percussion, violin and piano; [1940]. Score, in ink, with annotations in red ink and pencil. The play published Macmillan, 1940. ff. 11. 280 x 380mm. Sean O'Casey,...
MS Mus. 407. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. lxxxii. ‘Freedom on the Air’ and ‘The Duke in Darkness’; [1940-42]. ff. 51. 359 x 264mm. 1. ff. 1-19. ‘Freedom on the Air’, six songs from the play by Randall Swingler, for two baritone soloists (Alfie and Felix), mixed chorus and piano, with optional pe...