Identity area
Reference code
GB GB1179 JP
Title
John Padmore arrangements
Date(s)
- 1953-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
23 items
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Scope and content
All full scores in MS. Many include original music from published copies, cut up and stuck in as the basis of the arrangement. Sweeter than Songs of Summer (music by Frederick Bridge) - arr. for orchestra, Nov 1953. A Star was his candle (music by Teresa del Riego) - arr. for orchestra, 1963. A Christmas Fantasia on old carols - arr. for SATB solo and orchestra, 1964, and for choirs, 1966. Creation's Hymn (Malcolm Sargent) - arr. for SATB & orchestra, 1967. Infant Holy (Samuel Forcucci) - arr. for orchestra, 1967. A meditation for Christmas (Stewart Nash) - arr. for orchestra, 1967. O Holy Night (Percy W de Courcey Smale) - arr. for orchestra, 1967. O Little Town of Bethlehem (T.Tertius Noble) - arr. for orchestra, 1967. Silent Night (Franz Gruber) - arr. for orchestra, 1967. Rhapsodie (Brahms) - piano/organ accompaniment, 1970. Choral Fantasia on The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Wagner) - arr. for brass band, organ, harp/piano and voices, 1971. The Challenge of Thor - chorus from King Ulaf (Elgar) - brass band accompaniment and optional piano/organ, 1972. Motherland (George Dyson) - arr. for brass band accompaniment, 1972. Choral Fantastia on Tannhäuser (Wagner arr. Percy Grainger) - arr. for brass band accompaniment with piano & organ, 1972. Turn back o man (arr. Holst) - arr. for brass band accompaniment with optional piano/organ, 1972. Entrance of the peers - march/chorus from Iolanthe (Sullivan) - arr. for SATB chorus and brass band, 1973. Liberty (Eaton Faning) - arr. for brass band accompaniment, 1973, and for orchestra, nd. Reminiscences of Verdi: choral fantasia (arr. Percy E. Fletcher) - arr. for brass band accompaniment, 1973. Songs of the Fleet (Stanford) - arr. for chorus, brass band, piano & organ, 1975. Gesu Bambino (P.A.Yon) - arr. for wind, nd. God be merciful unto us (A.H. Mann) - arr. for orchestra, nd. A slumber song of the Madonna (Michael Head) - arr. for string quartet, nd.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
None expected.
System of arrangement
Chronologically.
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Open
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- Padmore, John (fl.1953-1975), arranger (Creator)
- Bridge, John Frederick (1844-1924), Knight, organist, composer, teacher, writer (Subject)
- Riego, Teresa Clotilde del (1876-1968), violinist, singer, pianist, composer (Subject)
- Sargent, Harold Malcolm Watts (1895-1967), Knight, conductor (Subject)
- Forcucci, Samuel L. (?1923-2019), musical director, conductor, composer (Subject)
- Nash, Stewart (dates unknown), composer (Subject)
- Smale, Percy W. de Courcy (fl.1960s), organist, arranger (Subject)
- Noble, Thomas Tertius (1867-1953), organist, composer (Subject)
- Gruber, Franz Xaver (1787-1863), composer (Subject)
- Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897), Composer (Subject)
- Wagner, Wilhelm Richard (1813-1883), composer, conductor (Subject)
- Elgar, Edward William (1857-1934), Knight, 1st Baronet, composer (Subject)
- Dyson, George (1883-1964), Knight, composer, musician (Subject)
- Grainger, Percy Aldridge (1882-1961), Composer, Pianist (Subject)
- Holst, Gustav Theodore (1874-1934), composer (Subject)
- Sullivan, Arthur Seymour (1842-1900), Knight, composer (Subject)
- Faning, Joseph Eaton (1850-1927), composer, teacher (Subject)
- Fletcher, Percy Eastman (1879-1932), composer (Subject)
- Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924), composer, teacher, conductor (Subject)
- Yon, Pietro Alessandro (1886-1943), composer, organist (Subject)
- Mann, Arthur Henry (1850-1929), composer, organist (Subject)
- Head, Michael (1900-1976), composer, pianist, organist, singer (Subject)
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Description identifier
Institution identifier
GB1179
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Status
Final
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Dates of creation revision deletion
WickhaS, 05/08/2004. Revised by FittonJ, 17/02/2005