MS Mus. 1893/1/4

1. Articles and BBC radio talks:

• (a). Copy script for BBC Third Programme talk (untitled) on Stravinsky. Broadcast 23 March 1961. Begins: 'At 78, Stravinsky is still one move ahead of his public.' (4 sheets.)
• (b). 'Beethoven' (Radio 3 talk). Four photocopied pages from The Listener (10 September 1970): front cover and pp. 326-8
• (c). 'Hugh Wood on his own work'. Photocopied p. 605 from The Listener (29 October 1970).
• (d). 'The Composer Speaks: Hugh Wood considers the claim "I am a Composer"'. Copy script for BBC Radio 3 talk. Broadcast 13 July 1973. (11 sheets.)
• (e). 'On Being Left Behind'. Undated typescript ('fourth draft'). Begins with a quotation from a 'recent notice': 'Hugh Wood is a conservative composer'. (3 sheets, with pencil annotations.)
• (f). 'BBC Talk'. Undated typescript ('third draft') - fragment, pp. 3-4 only. Refers to Wood's 'Chamber Concerto' (Op.15). On the versos of the typed sheets are typed draft examination questions on 'Composition for Instruments' and 'Vocal Composition'.
• (g). 'Post-Modernism / for Patras'. Undated [1986] article considering post-modernism in music. Double-sided photocopy typescript (4 sheets, marked '3rd draft').
• (h). 'For M.Phil meeting Thurs 2 Feb 89'. Typed lecture notes (4 pp.), beginning: 'I want to start in 1945 […] has [music] changed and developed as much since 1945 to the present day, as it did between 1900 and 1945?'
• (i). Four short talks for radio, numbered I-IV, on the subject of programme notes: 'Hugh Wood Reflects on the Programme Notes of Times Past'; 'Hugh Wood Offers a Programme Note for Today'; 'Hugh Wood Comes to Musical Terms'; 'Music and Sweet Poetry'. The talks are in draft form and are undated, but unrelated matter on the verso of one of the pages provides the (not before) date January 1989. Extent: 10 sheets in total.
• (j). Untitled text beginning: 'Real Men Do Not Eat Quiche - and real composers do not talk about their music'. 5 pages, typed on the versos of various unrelated material dated March and April 1992.
• (k). Short text on Webern, 'Six Pieces' (Op.6). Published in BBC Music Magazine, August 1997. Text with publisher's carbon sheet (Briefing Document) specifying 400 words for £150. (3 sheets.)
• (l). Short text on Schoenberg, 'Pelleas und Melisande' (Op.5). Published in BBC Music Magazine, September 1997. Text with publisher's carbon sheet (Briefing Document) specifying 400 words for £150. (3 sheets.)
• (m). 'Schoenberg and Popular Music'. Text for BBC Radio 3 interval talk, broadcast 13 September 1998. Material comprises a letter from the BBC to Wood (12 Aug 1998), Radio 3 schedule for 13-19 Sep ('Danube Week'), and two complete drafts of the text together with a single page of the first draft. (11 sheets.)
• (n). Short text on Kurtag, 'Messages of the Late R. V. Trusova'. Published in BBC Music Magazine, November 1999. Text with publisher's carbon sheet (Briefing Document) specifying 450 words for £150. (2 sheets.)
• (o). 'David Matthews's String Quartets: Some Reflections'. Advance proof pages of Wood's contribution to Thomas Hyde (ed.), David Matthews: Essays, Tributes and Criticism (London, 2014), pp. 188-97. Lacking the first page and with ink corrections to the end notes. (4 sheets.)

2. Talks on 'The Symphony' (1973-74). Programmes IV, IX and XIII only.

• (a). 'The Symphony - Programme IV'. Typed script, 4th draft, dated October 1973 (8 sheets). Plus 3rd draft p. 7 (1 sheet).
• (b). 'The Symphony - Programme IV'. Typed script, 5th and 'final' draft (6 sheets).
• (c). 'Symphonic Variation Technique (Symphony IX)'. Typed script, 2nd draft (7 sheets).
• (d). 'Symphony XIII. The Future of the Symphony'. Typed script, dated January 1974 (6 sheets).

3. Introductory talks by Wood to works by Schoenberg and by Webern (performed at The Round House, 1975-76):

• (a). Correspondence between Wood and Robert Ponsonby (BBC) concerning Wood's introductions to a series of BBC concerts at The Round House featuring works by Schoenberg and Webern (and others): Ponsonby to Wood, 20 Feb 1975 (2 sheets, dated 1976, presumably in error); Wood to Ponsonby, 11 Mar 1975 (1 sheet); Ponsonby to Wood, 18 Mar 1975 (1 sheet).
• (b). BBC concert, The Round House, 10 Nov 1975: Sven-David Sandstrom, Utmost; Pierre Boulez, Eclat. Anton Webern, Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.10; Four Songs, Op.13; Six Songs, Op.14; Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op.24. Live broadcast, Radio 3. BBC typed programme; and Wood's typed introduction, in two drafts.
• (c). BBC concert, The Round House, 24 Nov 1975: Harrison Birtwistle, Verses for Ensembles; Arnold Schoenberg, Herzgewachse; John Buller, Le Terrazze. Live broadcast, Radio 3. BBC typed programme; Wood's typed introduction to Schoenberg, Herzgewachse; and an appreciative exchange of letters following the broadcast between Ponsonby and Wood.
• (d). BBC concert, The Round House, 8 Mar 1976: Arnold Schoenberg, Suite, Op.29; Nicholas Maw, Life Studies; Luigi Nono, Cori di Didone. Live broadcast, Radio 3. BBC rehearsal schedule; BBC typed programme; Wood's typed introduction to Schoenberg, Suite, Op.29.
• (e). Typed introduction (9 sheets) by Wood to Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire. Together with a typed letter (29 Sep 1976) from Wood to Stephen [Plaistow] of the BBC, identifying the text as 'another script from the Radical Years about Pierrot which happened only to be broadcast in a very cut version'.

4. Introductory talks by Wood to works by Webern and Stravinsky (1977), and by Schoenberg (undated):

• (a). BBC concert, Royal College of Music, 7 Feb 1977: John Gasken, Kagura for 13 wind instruments; Anton Webern, Symphony, Op.21; György Ligeti, Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures. Concert recorded for future transmission. BBC typed programme; and Wood's typed introduction (in two drafts) to Webern, Symphony, Op.21.
• (b). BBC concert, Royal Academy of Music, 21 Feb 1977: Georges Aperghis, Il Gigante Golia; Alexander Goehr, Naboth's Vineyard; Igor Stravinsky, Renard. Concert recorded for future transmission. BBC typed programme; and Wood's typed introduction (5 sheets) to Stravinsky, Renard.
• (c). Wood's programme notes for unidentified performance of Schoenberg's Oratorio Die Jakobsleiter. Photocopied from concert programme (3 sheets).
• (d). Wood's typed book review of H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Arnold Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work. In two drafts (4 sheets), together with a commissioning letter from the literary editor of The Sunday Times (28 Oct 1977).