| Description | The Trust Arts Music series consists of archival records about music administration at Dartington before 1939; the Music Theatre Studio 1938; correspondence with Hans Oppenheim; the music score for the opera 'Rodelinda'; Music Group records; records of the Robert Masters Quartet; Music School, 1943-1961; Music Staff and Students; English Folk Dance and Song Society; The Opera Studio; Instruments; Norbert Brainin, Amadeus Quartet; General correspondence, press cuttings, and music performance programmes.
There is also correspondence with Imogen Holst, 1937-1980; Holst manuscripts and notes; compositions; her visit to India 1950-1951; press cuttings; Holst's University of Exeter honorary Degree 1969; Arts Department notes; Holst Foundation correspondence; obituaries, Memorial Concerts held for Imogen Holst; 'Imogen Holst at Dartington' (student manuscript); Gustav Holst information. (Imogen Holst personal archive held by The Britten-Pears Library and Archive.)
Included is John Clements' correspondence; Clements' reports and papers; Richard Hall's records; Mervyn Bruxner; Doris Gould; Michael Lane; Jack Dobbs; a presentation scrapbook made for Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst from the Vienna visit of 16 Dartington students, March, 1968. Also included are many programmes for the Summer School and press cuttings relating to publicity.
Other material concerns Dartington music administration and structure, Sir William Glock, Peter Maxwell Davies, Bee Musson and John Amis (personnel), filming by the BBC of The Netherlands Wind Ensemble, 1979; staff and Dartington Summer School of Music records. |