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MS Mus. 1855/1/3
- Record Id:
- 040-003947842
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003947835
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124059152.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1855/1/3
- Title:
- Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1960-1966
- Scope & Content:
-
97 letters, as follows:
1960
- New Sheffield Symphony Orchestra (15 January 1960)
- Bernard Rose (23 January 1960)
- John Downing (3 February 1960)
- Reverend W. E. Plumbridge (4 February 1960)
- Bernard Rose (7 February 1960)
- Peter Wallfisch (21 February 1960)
- New Sheffield Symphony Orchestra (27 February 1960)
- Dr P. G. Saunders, Wakefield Cathedral (27 February 1960)
- Frederick Grinke (7 March 1960)
- Robert Rowe, Temple Newsam House, Leeds (7 March 1960)
- Alexander Gibson, The Scottish National Orchestra Society (21 March 1960)
- I. G. Morgan from The British Council, requesting a reference for Rod Brydon (30 March 1960)
- Meredith Davies, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (4 April 1960)
- Novello & Co. Ltd. (7 April 1960)
- Charles Groves (14 April 1960)
- Herbert Howells (17 April 1960)
- Peter Wallfisch (19 April 1960)
- C. F. H. Crawshaw, Great Yarmouth Musical Society (6 May 1960)
- Colin Kingsley (6 May 1960)
- Carlo Zecchi (16 May 1960)
- A. R. Itter, of Lyrita Recorded Edition (19 May 1960)
- The London Orpheus Choir (27 May 1960)
- Peter Wallfisch (30 May 1960)
- James Gaddarn, Trinity College of Music (3 June 1960)
- Peter Wallfisch (17 June 1960)
- Great Yarmouth Musical Society (23 June 1960)
- C. Bell (12 July 1960)
- Peter Wallfisch (13 August 1960)
- G. A. M. Wilkinson, organiser of the Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music (17 August 1960)
- Edgar Curtis (2 September 1960)
- Peter Wallfisch (9 September 1960)
- Michael Whewell, Deputy Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (31 October 1960)
- A.R. Itter, of Lyrita Recorded Edition (1 November 1960)
- Douglas Cameron (3 November 1960)
- Geoffrey Buckley (8 November 1960)
- Christine Gough (14 December 1960)
- Goffredo Petrassi (21 December 1960)
1961
- Florence Hooton ('Grandad') (20 January 1961)
- George Hurst, conductor of the BBC Northern Orchestra (30 January 1961)
- Stanley Pope (11 February 1961)
- John Hopkins, New Zealand Broadcasting Service (21 March 1961)
- Melville Cook, Three Choirs Festival, (23 March 1961)
- Peter Wallfisch (5 April 1961)
- Peter Wallfisch (5 April 1961)
- M. Armstrong, Leeds Symphony Society (13 June 1961)
- M. Armstrong, Leeds Symphony Society (21 June 1961)
- Trevor Harvey (27 June 1961)
- Douglas Guest (4 July 1961)
- Geoffrey Buckley (23 August 1961)
- Melville Cook (20 September 1961)
- Leo Gibson (7 December 1961)
- Ernest Bradbury, including a draft of a programme note for the first performance of Leighton's piano concerto on 18 January 1962 (27 December 1961)
1962
- Colin Kingsley (22 January 1962)
- Bryan Hesford (2 March 1962)
- Peter Wallfisch (2 March 1962)
- Melville Cook (19 March 1962)
- Allan Wicks (24 April 1962)
- W.M. Thoseby, Friends of Cantebury Cathedral (28 June 1962)
- Allan Wicks (3 August 1962)
- Geoffrey Bird (12 September 1962)
- Eric Parkin (23 October 1962)
1963-1964
- Franco Novello (21 February 1963)
- Hans Redlich (30 March 1963)
- John Joubert (26 July 1963)
- Sidney Newman (1 August 1963)
- Kenneth Leighton to Sidney Newman (8 August 1963)
- Sidney Newman (9 August 1963)
- Bryan Hesford (28 October 1963)
- Allan Wicks (18 January 1964)
- Peter Gellhorn (3 April 1964)
- Robert Munns (7 November 1964)
- Dr W. Greenhouse Allt, Chairman of the Musicians' Benevolent Fund (27 November 1964)
1965-1966
- Joy Finzi (1 May [1965?])
- Jacqueline du Pré (18 May 1965)
- Tertia Liebenthal, organiser of the National Galleries of Scotland Lunch-Hour Concerts (28 October 1965)
- William Wordsworth (29 October 1965)
- Joy Finzi (16 November 1965)
- Joy Finzi (25 November 1965)
- A Benson (10 February 1966)
- Ethel M. Murray to Lydia Leighton (11 February 1966)
- Tertia Liebenthal, organiser of the National Galleries of Scotland Lunch-Hour Concerts (11 February 1966)
- P.G. Saunders, Wakefield Cathedral (8 April 1966)
- Goffredo Petrassi (22 April 1966)
- Peter Le Huray (5 May 1966)
- Peter Le Huray (26 May 1966)
- Michael Nicholas (4 June 1966)
- 'Malcolm' (2 July 1966)
- Cedric Thorpe Davie (13 August 1966)
- Erik Routley (31 August 1966)
- Francis Maons (4 September 1966)
- Bernhard Sprengel (8 September 1966)
- Aldo Ceccato (22 September 1966)
- John McCabe (1 October 1966)
- Geoffrey Best (17 October 1966)
- Myrtle Lane, Barnes Music Club (26 October 1966)
- Watkins Shaw (31 October 1966)
- Frederick Grinke (1 November 1966)
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003947835
036-003947837
040-003947842 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1855 : Letters to and from Kenneth Leighton and a scrapbook containing press cuttings and concert programmes
MS Mus. 1855/1 : Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1951-1976
MS Mus. 1855/1/3 : Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1960-1966 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003947835[0001]/036-003947837[0003]/040-003947842
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1855
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folder (118 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1960
- End Date:
- 1966
- Date Range:
- 1960-1966
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Barenboim, Jacqueline Mary, née du Pré; cellist, 1945-1987
Bradbury, Ernest, critic, member of RMA, 1919-1994
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1897-1983
Gellhorn, Peter, conductor, composer, pianist and teacher, 1912-2004
Grinke, Frederick, violinist, 1911-1987
Groves, Charles Barnard, Knight, conductor, 1915-1992
Guest, Douglas Albert, organist, composer, conductor and teacher, 1916-1996
Harvey, Trevor Barry, conductor and broadcaster, 1911-1989
Hooton, Florence, afterwards Martin; cellist, 1912-1988
Howells, Herbert Norman, composer, 1892-1983,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012026671X
Hurst, George, conductor, 1926-2012
Joubert, John Pierre Herman, composer, 1927-2019
Kingsley, Colin, pianist, 1925-2020
Le Huray, Peter Geoffrey, musicologist, 1930-1992
Liebenthal, Tertia, concert organiser in Edinburgh
McCabe, John, composer and pianist, 1939-2015
Newman, Sidney Thomas Mayow, Reid Professor of Music Edinburgh University, 1906-1971
Parkin, Eric, pianist, 1924-2020
Petrassi, Goffredo, composer and teacher, 1904-2003
Pope, Stanley, conductor, 1901-1995
Redlich, Hans Ferdinand, musicologist, 1903-1968,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121204908
Rose, Bernard William George, organist and conductor, 1916-1996
Shaw, Harold Watkins, musicologist, 1911-1996
Wallfisch, Peter, pianist, 1924-1993
Wicks, Edward Allan, organist Canterbury Cathedral, 1923-2010
Wordsworth, William Brocklesby, composer, 1908-1988