A miscellaneous collection of programmes from a range of venues, concerts and performers. Venues and promoters include: His Majesty's Theatre, Crystal Palace, Sacred Harmonic Society Nottingham, Stalybridge Harmonic Society, Winter Gardens B...
This collection consists mainly of the work of Richard Hall, composition teacher at the Royal Manchester College of Music who taught, among others, John Ogdon, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies etc. Also included are some photographs, docu...
Hall, Richard (1903-1982), composer, Royal Manchester College of Music teacher
The main body of the collection comprises virtually the complete works of Roy Heaton Smith in full score (RHS/01-RHS/67). The collection also includes note books, musical sketches, concert programmes, computer printouts, and other miscellaneous it...
Official records of the the Royal Manchester College of Music covering its entire history from foundation to amalgamation with the Northern School of Music to form the Royal Northern College of Music. Includes correspondence and minutes of the me...
This collection consists of the institutional archive of the Royal Northern College of Music from its formation in 1973 to the present. It is not complete, some sections of the catalogue are rather thin but some sections are fairly comprehensive s...
Chiefly the surviving music owned and copied by the Shaw Club or Shaw Musical Society. With very few programmes and tickets, and two catalogues of works in their library.
Sheila Barlow (1908-1993), M.B.E. The collection mainly focusses on her work as a teacher at the Royal Manchester College of Music, working with opera students on elocution and gesture. The collection contains many of her teaching resources and no...