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'25 Limericks, Musicians and Others' by Thomas Pitfield

• GB GB1179 CR-CR/8
• Item
• undated

Part of Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway

Subjects include Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Tippett and McCabe. Thomas Pitfield has written on the front of this copy, 'Maurice Ridgway from Thomas Pitfield'.

'Elegy for a demolished church (Dome Chapel)' by Thomas Pitfield

• CR-CR/7
• Item
• undated

Part of Items belong to Canon Ridgway (who was vicar of Bowdon) relating to Thomas Pitfield

Typed elegy which has been annotated in both pen and pencil. Thomas Pitfield has signed the bottom of the poem.

'Words Without Songs', by Thomas Pitfield with introduction by Walter de la Mare

• GB GB1179 CR-CR/10
• Item
• 1951

Part of Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway

Thomas Pitfield has signed his name on the inside cover of this volume.

Christmas Card designed by Thomas Pitfield, with music for 'Child and Beast' on the cover

• GB GB1179 CR-CR/9
• Item
• undated

Part of Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway

The inside reads 'Christmas and New Year Greetings from Tom and Alice' and the Pitfield's address is provided at the bottom.

Concert programme for performance of Thomas Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures' at St John's Church, Chester

• GB GB1179 CR-CR/2
• Item
• 25-May-75

Part of Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway

The programme includes a foreword by Thomas Pitfield. The event was sponsored by the Cheshire Vegetarian Society

Handwritten copy of 'Final Hymn, Canticle of All Created Things (St Francis)', featured in Thomas Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures'

• CR-CR/6
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• undated

Part of Items belong to Canon Ridgway (who was vicar of Bowdon) relating to Thomas Pitfield

This copy was handwritten by Thomas Pitfield. He has noted that it is to be performed by chorus and audience.

Letter from Thomas Pitfield to Canon Maurice Ridgway

• GB GB1179 CR-CR/1
• Item
• c1967

Part of Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway

Pitfield thanks Canon Ridgway for going through his script and for his observations - nearly all have prompted revisions. Pitfield goes on to discuss Ridgway's suggestions, and it seems the script referred to is Pitfield's 'Adam an...

Libretto (with chorus part) for Thomas Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures'

• GB GB1179 CR-CR/4
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• 1972

Part of Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway

This edition was published by Sam Fox Publishing Company, Inc. New York.

Programme for a performance of Thomas Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures' at the Bowdon Festival

• GB GB1179 CR-CR/5
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• undated

Part of Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway

The programme lists the performers, the designers of the masks, stage management, musicians, and chorus; Maurice Ridgway was Reader 1 for this performance. The back of the programme provides the words for two hyms, 'Hymn 1' and 'Hy...

Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway

• GB GB1179 CR
• Collection
• c1951-c1975

Scores, letters and other papers mainly from Thomas Pitfield to Canon Ridgway. In the main the papers relate to Thomas Pitfield's morality play, 'Adam and the Creatures', which was published in 1968. It appears that Maurice Ridgwa...

Pitfield, Thomas Baron (1903-1999), Composer, artist