Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Hurford/5/5
Title
In Sanity and Madness Concert - Royal Albert Hall 1966
Date(s)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper
Context area
Name of creator
(22 November 1930 - 3 March 2019)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Material related to the Organ concert "In sanity and madness" at the Royal Albert Hall, on the 24th of September 1966, organised by the Royal College of Organists.
Materials include:
- Comic illustrations
- Rehearsal schedule
- Picture of Peter Hurford dressed as the Queen of Sheeba
- Picture of Peter Hurford dressed as J. S. Bach
- Picture of the organ being brought from the Royal College of Organists into the Royal Albert Hall
- Article on the concert
- Letters sent to Peter Hurford after the concert
- Handwritten score
- Two posters from the concert
- Photocopy of the programme
- Lighting schedule rehearsal list
- Full score (handwritten) of John Mc Cabe's Miniconcerto for organ, percussion and 485 penny-whistles
- Full score (photocopied) of Alan Ridout's L'Orgue concrete
- Full score and parts of Gordon Jacob's Humpty Dumpty and his false relation for three organs, percussion and strings
- Orchestral parts and organ for arrangement of the Lost Chord by Glyn Bragg
- Two photocopies of organ arrangement of God Save the King/Queen with variations by C. H. Rink
- Handbill
- Programme
- Tiny fragment of Peter Hurford's dialogue
- Draft of Catharine Ennis' article for 2016 (May) edition of Choir and Organ