| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding Hans Oppenheim.
Subjects include: the establishment of a Music section of the Arts Department; arrangements for the appointment of Hans Oppenheim as Director of the Dartington Hall Chamber Music Group and Head of the Music Department (1937); arrangements for a part exchange of Dorothy Elmhirst's Steinway Grand for a Steinway small Grand; Hans Oppenheim permit; Hans Oppenheim's move to Cambridge (1944) and his new terms of employment; arrangements for a coach to see Benjamin Britten's Opera 'The Rape of Lucretia'; Hans Oppenheim's application for naturalisation; Hans Oppenheim signing of a contract with Benjamin Britten to teach classes in the budding Opera studio; the payment of compensation to Hans Oppenhiem by The Dartington Hall Trust for the loss of his office at Dartington as Director of Music; a reference for the purchase of an unfurnished flat; and the death of Hans Oppenheim (1965) and Cissy Oppenheim (1981).
Correspondents include: Hans Oppenheim; Leonard Elmhirst; Dorothy Elmhirst; R J Harris, Harris Osborne Ltd; Christopher Martin; Fred Gwatkin; H Gee, Ministry of Labour; C B McAlpine; W C Pendrey; Cissy Oppenheim; Rudolf Bing, Glyndebourne Productions Ltd; Peter Cox; Kay Starr; N Taylor; and Peter Ebert.
Additional material includes: a memorandum of a conversation between Leonard Elmhirst, Dorothy Elmhirst, William B Curry and Christopher Martin regarding music (1936); a memorandum of conversations between Hans Oppenheim and Christopher Martin regarding possible developments of music and the establishment of a music section of the Arts Department (1937); notes on discussion by Christopher Martin regarding Dartington Hall Music Group, Cambridge; and a copy of News of the Day and an extract from The Musical Times regarding Hans Oppenheim obituary. |