MS Mus. 969

MS Mus. 969. William Glock Collection. Vol. xxvii. Album of photographs of Sir Henry Wood, annotated by Lady Jessie Wood; 1869-1944. An inscription on the front cover reads ‘B. J. Nicholls Esqre. 1945 from J. W.’

ff. ii + 35. 290 x 235mm. Blue buckram binding.

Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: Jessie Linton, afterwards Wood (Lady Jessie): B. J. Nicholls: Album of photographs of Sir Henry Wood of Sir Henry Wood, collected and annotated by Lady Jessie Wood and presented by her to B. J. Nicholls: 1869-1944.

includes:

• f. 4 Princess Olga Michailowna Wood,; formerly Hillman neé Ourousoff; 1st wife of Sir H J Wood: Photograph of Olga Wood née Ourousoff: 1898.
• f. 18 Sir Henry Walford Davies, Master of the King's Music: Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: Photograph of Sir Henry Walford Davies and Sir Henry Wood: 1938.
• f. 20 Isobel Baillie, singer: Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: Eva Turner, DBE; soprano: Parry William John Jones, tenor; of the Royal Opera House: Roy Henderson, singer and conductor: Norman Allin, singer: Harold Williams, singer: Heddle Nash, singer: Gwendolyn Mary Thompson, afterwards Neame; alias 'Astra Desmond'; contralto; wife of Sir T Neame: Muriel Brunskill, singer: Robert Easton, singer: Mary Jarred, singer: Margaret Balfour, contralto: Walter Widdop, singer: Frank Titterton, tenor: Lilian Stiles-Allen, soprano: Elsie Suddaby, soprano: Photograph of the soloists in the first performance of 'Serenade to music' by R. Vaughan Williams: 1938.
• f. 21 Sergei Vasilevich Rachmaninoff, composer: Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: Photograph of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sir Henry Wood: 1938.
• ff. 28-29 Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM; composer: Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: Photographs of R. Vaughan Williams and Sir Henry Wood: 1944.