MS Mus. 335. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. x. Works for orchestra; [1942-46]. ff. 82. Largest size 360 x 267mm. 1. ff. 1-18. ‘Overture: Festal Day’, for orchestra, op.23; [1942]. Full score, in ink. ‘Composed as a tribute to Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 70th Birthday’ (f. 1). Subsequently ent...
Alan Bush Collection. General chronological sequence of correspondence. Jul-Sep 1967
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Including a brochure for the London conference "Faiths and peaceful co-existence", 2-6 October 1967.Correspondents include: Janet Jagan, Johannes Hanspach, Harry Gibson, Stuart Douglass, Yehuda Amias, Dino Castro, John Bellany, Pat Cory, Morris Kahn, Diane Pratt, Alan Sillitoe, Rolf Reuter, Laure...
Alan Bush Collection. General chronological sequence of correspondence. Oct-Dec 1967
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Including: brochure of the Twentieth Annual Miners' Eisteddfod, Porthcawl, 7 October 1967 programme of Workers' Music Association Concert of New Music, 21 October 1967. Correspondents include: Lois Phillips, Husák Oldřich, P. Savintsev, Michael Head, John Wells Killeen, Prof. K. Keyser, Dino Cast...
MS Mus. 411. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. lxxxvi. Full score. Autograph of the various composers. With conductor’s annotations in red crayon, and with typewritten excerpts from the script pasted onto the score. The full score of no.4, ‘Clown’s Congé’ by Rutland Boughton (a setting of Shakespeare’s...
MSS Mus. 412, 413. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxxvii, lxxxviii. Parts. Copies, in ink, in several hands, some copied by Tom Blight. The parts for no.4 (Boughton) are lacking. Two volumes. 304 x 238mm.
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Thomas Blight, music copyist: Orchestral parts for a 'Communist Manifesto Centenary Pageant' , partly in the hand of Thomas Blight: [1948].
MSS Mus. 367-376. Alan Bush Collection. Vols xlii-li. ‘Wat Tyler’, opera in a prologue and two acts, to a libretto by Nancy Bush; [1950-51]. Commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain in the Festival of Britain Opera Competition. Performed privately in London in 1951 with the composer at the piano; broadcast in April 1952 by East Berlin Radio; first staged performance Leipzig, 6 Sept. 1953. Libretto published Joseph Williams, 1956; vocal score published Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1954 (i...
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Arts Council of Great Britain: Wat Tyler, rebel: Hyman Fagan, writer: 'Wat Tyler', opera by A. D. Bush , commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain and dedicated retrospectively to Hyman Fagan: [1950-51]. Nancy Rachel Bush, wife of Alan Bush, composer: Libretti, poems and translations, s...