| Beskrivelse | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding Music and the formation and development of musical activities and societies upon the Dartington estate and in Devonshire.
Subjects include: Nevison Robson's report on music including individual lessons, reading music, and the musical development of the community and a community orchestra; finance; the purchase of instruments including recorders; accommodation for Ronald Biggs and his family; the formation and working of the South-Western Federation of Musical Societies; arrangements for the broadcasting of concerts from Dartington Hall by the BBC; and the formation and activities of the Dartington Chorus.
Correspondents include: Nevison Robson; Leonard Elmhirst; Ronald Biggs; Mabel and Arnold Dolmetsch; Frank Eames, Music Development Fund; R A Rendell West, BBC; Christopher Martin; Dorothy Elmhirst; members of the Dartington Chorus; N Robson; A M Crook; and H S Wraight.
Additional material includes: a memorandum 'Singing Club Grant'; a leaflet and programme for the Haslemere Festival of Chamber Music; a catalogue for 'Dolmetsch and His Instruments'; a price list of Dolmetsch instruments; advertisement for the new 'Sopranino' recorder; a programme for a Choral and Orchestral Concert, in the School of Dance-Mime (1932); programmes for the Dartington Hall Eighth - Thirteenth Broadcast Concerts (1934-1937); a programme for a piano recital by Claud Biggs; notes on 'Music in the School'; a 'Plan for the organisation of the musical life of the Dartington Hall Estate, of Devonshire and for the distant future' by Fritz Waldmann; a proposal 'Dartington Hall Chamber Orchestra' by Fritz Cohen; a memorandum of a conversation on Music; and a talk prepared for a broadcast from the West Regional Station, BBC 'Music Making in the West Country'. |