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24 SPRING 2000 ISSN 0952-2360 what’s happening of early recordings from her region, Dr Tatyana Roon from the Sakhalin Regional Museum, Russia, came to the NSA and was immediately able to identify our items as recordings of the Ainu ■ BBC radio broadcasts will now be more widely and directly people, made on Sakhalin Island in 1902-3 by Bronislaw Pilsudski, accessible via the NSA Listening and Viewing Service. Under new a Polish political exile. He sold the three cylinders, to C.S. Myers, arrangements most programmes broadcast in recent years should without making copies, and their whereabouts have remained now be available for listening, without a lengthy waiting period. unknown to scholarship until now. Currently we are still unable to provide routine access to or references from BBC Sound Archive catalogue information post- ■ At the end of February the British Library proclaimed itself 1992, but we expect to have this available shortly. Meanwhile we ‘Lost for words’. In connection with its new exhibition on English can request recordings of recent programmes for which the title literature, called ‘Chapter and Verse’, the Library launched a Janet Caddock and date of broadcast are known. In view of this improved direct Tim Blackmore (centre) and Simon Cole (left) of the Unique Broadcasting campaign in the press to track down rare recordings of great access to BBC holdings, the need for us to record programmes off Company with Crispin Jewitt, NSA Director writers.Among the roll call of writers whose voices are believed the air no longer exists and this activity ceased in March this year. to have been lost forever are George Orwell (who made many The price is £8.99 including postage and cheques should be made broadcasts for the BBC during and after the Second World War), ■ The NSA catalogue CADENSA is scheduled to go on-line via payable to The British Library Bookshop. Telephone orders to: Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence and A.E. Housman.Toby Oakes, the the internet this autumn.This will enable users who cannot visit +44 (0) 20 7412 7735. NSA’s curator of Drama and Literature said, ‘What we hope is the British library in person to find out what the NSA holds from that people who made amateur recordings or know people who anywhere in the world. CADENSA currently gives details of more ■ A press reception was held to mark the 50th meeting of the did will trawl through their attics. They could be holding than two million recordings. NSA Consultative Committee, at which Tim Blackmore of the something that will enrich the nation’s archive and be of great Unique Broadcasting Company presented a first batch of value to future generations.’ ■ Recordings from the The NSA’s millennium recordings of the company’s more significant programme series, National Sound Archive CD,The Century in Sound,was which are syndicated by several independent radio networks and further publicised by the BL stations (see short article on page six). NSA pop music curator Press Office in January, Andy Linehan was featured on BBC Southeast news and was resulting in an avalanche of interviewed by GLR about the donation.

t media interest.The compiler h d e n Richard Fairman (Playback ■ The Wildlife Section supplied recordings of fish sounds to the ce ou ntury in s production manager) took psychologist Dr Neil Todd of Manchester University to develop a millennium CD part in two TV and six radio his widely-publicised theory that rock music lovers and soniferous programmes, and was interviewed by three national newspapers. fish stimulate the same parts of their brains; and blackbird sounds Articles about it appeared in two further papers and in The to Dr Luis Baptista of California, who proposes that Mozart and Spectator, all of which produced rapid sales through the BL Beethoven’s compositions were inspired by bird songs. bookshop, far exceeding the initial successful sale via the offer in the Daily Telegraph.We will be repressing the disc but meanwhile ■ The provenance and identification of three ethnographic wax hurry while stocks last! Orders by post to: The British Library cylinders from the collections of C.S. Myers remained a mystery 2 Sakhalin Island cylinders Bookshop,The British Library,96 Euston Road,London NW1 2DB. until March this year. On the last day of a visit to the UK in search Janet Caddock acquisitions 1999–2000

In response to the increasing number of text publications appearing on CD-ROM and exclusively online, the British Library is seeking to extend Legal Deposit legislation Sony’s ‘Soundtrack for a Century’ to encompass non-print publications.As an interim measure the Culture Minister 150000th CD accessioned by the NSA. A Simpsons CD, tying in Chris Smith has asked the Library to set up with the television cartoon series, came with a limited edition an experimental voluntary deposit system 250-piece jigsaw puzzle. We received once again Iron Maiden’s and this is now in operation. Of course it is complete output on CDs but this time housed in a large Janet Caddock not necessary to look further than the moulded plastic representation of the head of their

National Sound Archive’s long-standing Photos: frightening mascot ‘Eddie’, complete with flashing voluntary arrangement with record red eyes (NSA ref. 1SS0002631). companies for an example of a successful In his role as custodian of our system in operation; and 1999 saw another artefacts collection, Noel Sidebottom gratifying and much appreciated response was glad to take in a dictaphone from both BPI member companies and The Simpsons CD with jigsaw puzzle previously owned by Hammond Innes independents, many of whom are now and found in a junk shop in members of the Association of Independent Music (AIM).We are one of the biggest companies in this developing field, Colchester. With it came unique also grateful for the cooperation of Millward Brown, the official and we expect to be making similar arrangements recordings of Mr Innes dictating. chart compilers based in Warwick, who receive most of the with other internet-based companies imminently. independent companies’ output which is then transferred to us. Among unusual items received were the complete Including the relatively small number of specialist overseas issues video collection of Queen; a disc of ‘EVP’ recordings which we purchase, our intake of published recordings totalled featuring ‘ghost’ voices etc.; a 5” vinyl single (EM 545: 30,131 in 1999/2000. ‘About 5AQM’ by Dark Star); a steady trickle of DVDs In a further important new development agreement has been including Herbert von Karajan concerts and Driller Killer; reached with Global Music Network (GMN) for them to four pop-quiz CDs each with free pencil; varied deposit copies of their master recordings with the NSA. GMN millennium-related items including Sony’s Soundtrack for a operates exclusively via the Internet [www.gmn.com] and Century (includes a lavishly produced book and 13 double currently offers free webcasts of its exclusive and rapidly CDs); and a CD by Ananda Shankar featuring Jumpin’ Jack expanding catalogue of live classical music and jazz. It is already Flash played on the sitar, which turned out to be the 3 Iron Maiden’s ‘Eddie’ ■ International Music Collection

Reg Hall,one of the UK’s leading authorities on Irish traditional music and a central figure on the ‘traditional’ side of the post- war folk revival, deposited the first tranch of his field recording collection (C903). Ashmore Among many other activities (e.g. editing anner ine T

ve Topic’s ‘Voice of the People’ series) Dr Hall an Kyncl Ste Cather Iv is a long-standing musician for both the Candide Private Lives The Riot Bampton Morris and the Padstow Obby Oss. By coincidence, previously unknown ■ Drama and literature Coward Private Lives (NT) recordings of performances and interviews Staff identified and purchased a video entitled Waiting for Beckett: a portrait of Osborne Look Back in Anger (NT with William Kimber, another famous Samuel Beckett (1CV0001243). Remarkably it includes the only known Rita Dove The Darker Face of the Earth (NT) musician for Cotswold morris (pre-war recording of Beckett speaking. It was used by the Library as an example of Gorky (NT) Headington this time), were donated by ‘how unknown recordings can turn up out of the blue’ in its widely [trial transcript] The Colour of Justice (NT) Christopher Chaundy. New field recordings publicised search for recordings of other silent writers (most famously Aeschylus/Hughes The Oresteia 1 (NT) from India, Latvia, Nigeria, China, Zimbabwe, George Orwell) for use in the current ‘Chapter and Verse’ exhibition. Stephen Poliakoff Remember This (NT) Pakistan, Central America, Syria, Uzbekistan As part of the NSA theatre recording programme we recorded the Shakespeare King Lear (RSC) and Ghana were also received, and 72 series of Samuel Beckett plays in productions by the Gate Theatre, Dublin, Christopher Shinn Other People (Royal Court) performances were recorded by NSA staff at the Barbican. Other recent highlights from the Royal Shakespeare The section also recorded a range of literary events at the British Library, at WOMAD 1999. Company, the National Theatre and Royal Court included: which this year featured Beryl Bainbridge, Dava Sobel, Christopher Logue, Charlie Gillett gave us 75 studio session Nick Darke The Riot (NT) Frieda Hughes, Hanif Kureishi, Roger McGough, Grace Nichols, Michael recordings from his Capital Radio ‘World of Kia Corthron Breath, Boom (Royal Court) Horovitz, Andrew Motion, Victoria Glendinning and Simon Armitage Difference’ programmes (C510), plus 453 Richard Bean Toast (Royal Court) (C660, C906 and C927). Readings recorded at the Royal Society of discs mainly of African music on African Gary Mitchell Trust (Royal Court) Literature included Harold Pinter, Michael Holroyd and the Oxford labels from his collection. We are also Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida (NT) University poets. grateful for published acquisitions passed Richard Nelson Goodnight Everywhere (RSC) We were also pleased to receive the personal collections of on from other areas of the Library. This Lepage Geometry of Miracles (NT) John McGrath (C926) and Ian Hamilton (C939); ‘Hollywood Fights Back’, year we received a CD-Rom of Malaysian Ostrovsky The Forest (NT) a set of six 78 rpm discs produced for radio in response to the House nursery rhymes (from the National Library Turgenev A Month in the Country (RSC) Committee on Un-American Activities (9CL0041855-7); a 1979 video of Malaysia) via the Oriental and India Shakespeare The Winter’s Tale (RSC) recording of Ken Campbell’s 18 hour production of Neil Oram’s The Warp Office Collections, 17 LPs of Czech music C.S.Lewis The Lion,The Witch & The Wardrobe (RSC) at the ICA (1CV0001246-1CV0001251) and the only slightly less from the RS&CD Slavonic section, and 22 Bernstein Candide (NT) monumental What Ever, an eight hour radio play by Heather Woodbury in Colombian LPs donated by Ann Wade of 4 Hanif Kureishi Sleep With Me (NT) which she plays all 100 characters (1CA0006980-1CA0006987). the Collection Development Support Unit. ■ Jazz family memories The section concentrated this year on building up holdings of German and Japanese discs. Back a long-lost interview catalogue LPs were bought from dealers in by Sir Dominic Cadbury each country (featuring, for example, the internationally known alto saxophonist Sadao When I began recording my piece for the NLSC they enjoyed. Apart from a very early age they power generation, and horses and carriages were Watanabe, pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, and a Food: From Source to Salespoint project with were not banished to the nursery with only the basis of transport. My father accompanied my leading Japanese jazz radio presenter, Shoichi Cathy Courtney I should have known better than nannies to talk to.They spent plenty of time with grandfather on a ride each morning at 6.45am; Yui, and numerous Japanese issues featuring to underestimate her quiet determination and their parents, who enjoyed their company and breakfast was at 7.30am and then prayers for the US artists). Other interesting commercial interviewing skill. I imagined we could talk about whole household when my grandmother would acquisitions included 94 New Orleans making and selling chocolate but Cathy wanted play the organ and my grandfather would read CDs, ranging from street bands to several descriptions of all the different types of people from the Scriptures. He knew all the Psalms off by generations of modern jazz players and singers; involved – their lifestyles, backgrounds, education, heart! the work of fusionists Pete Jacobson, Billy clothes and relationships.Since at Bourneville,one My mother’s family, who were not particularly Cobham and others on the Wenlock label of the two major Cadbury’s factories, 10,000 well off, still had a staff of four – cook, whom my (associated with the Wenlock Arms, the people were employed until the 1970s, you can mother liked very much; nanny, whom she didn’t favoured local hostelry of NSA staff based at imagine how much more limited was my because nanny preferred her four brothers;under the Library’s Micawber Street building); and, perception of the project compared to hers. nurse and parlour maid.The winters were much somewhat predating karaoke, a jazz tutorial LP Months later, when I visited the NSA, I colder and she learnt to skate on the local lake, with backing tracks of Burt Bacharach tunes. discovered that twenty-five years earlier my but putting on clothes in the morning with no In continuing to monitor British jazz we parents had been interviewed for a series on central heating and scratchy material was quite acquired CDs by Dave Brennan’s Jubilee Jazz family life during the early years of the century. an ordeal. She went to Cambridge as an Cadbury chocolate worker Band, Brian Carrick’s Heritage Hall Stompers, This was a complete surprise to me and the rest undergraduate but ironically university meant less Matt Wates, Vic Ash, Malcolm Creese, Brian of my family, and as my parents had died some conversation. There was virtually no traffic and freedom.Young men were only allowed into their Cotton and the Cotton Club Jazzmen, and the years ago, it has been a fascinating experience to even as a young child my mother walked to rooms during daytime with a chaperone, and Savannah Jazz Band among many others, and are sit and listen to them talking about their school with her friends in a way no parent would women weren’t allowed to qualify for degrees, always pleased to receive publications of this kind childhoods in a concentrated way I had never risk today. They seem never to have been which were reserved to men; and initially she was from specialist labels. Unpublished acquisitions heard when they were alive. punished, perhaps because they were taught good homesick, never having been away from included acetates etc. documenting the Mike My father was born in 1889 and my mother in manners and behaviour from the earliest stage. before. She left after a year to get married to Daniels Delta Jazz Band from Mike Bowen’s family 1906 and they married in 1925 when my mother My father’s family employed numerous my father, who had been visiting her as an uncle, (C922), and 1950s-1980s recordings of the Benno was nineteen. They were both part of large servants, ranging on the female side from cooks, and had six children of whom I was the fifth. Walldorf Blues Combo, featuring Benny Waters, families with quite strong religious ties,Quakers in nannies and parlour maids to coachmen, Otherwise she would have become an English from Manfred Selchow (C942). We interviewed the case of my father and Unitarians on my carpenters, mechanics and a boots boy. My teacher! However, though she never became a Terry Monaghan on the Jiving Lindy Hoppers mother’s side. One feature which comes through paternal grandfather lived five miles from the teacher, she played a prominent part in local and dance troupe, Terry Lightfoot, John Critchinson clearly from their childhood was the freedom centre of Birmingham, so they had their own national education in later life. 5 and Dave Green. ■ Oral History exceptional acquisition 1999 would have been a ■ Popular Music covering the history of the label,interviews, bumper year for oral history activity.The NLSC discographies and rare film footage of the No less than 6000 interviews on minidisc have Architects Lives, Artists Lives and Book Trade Among noteworthy recent acquisitions have been Chess studio in its heyday, as well as a been taken in as a result of The Century Speaks – Lives (C466, 467 and 872) projects all forged several further Japanese ‘miniaturised LP’-style CD lavishly produced book listing chart data – Millennium Oral History Project (C900, see ahead, while the Food: from source to salespoint reissues, among them the Roxy Music catalogue, in addition to the 330 music tracks Playback 20). The project was the largest of its project (C821) made good initial progress. A complete with every design nuance of the original included. Blue Horizon issued a lavish box kind ever undertaken and the recordings form Crafts Lives project (C960) has been launched. LPs reduced and preserved with typical attention to set of the complete recordings of the largest oral history collection in Europe. Among larger donations were 151 tapes from detail. Rycodisc issued a set of the complete works Fleetwood Mac prior to the departure of When the NSA’s online catalogue CADENSA the Jewish Care Holocaust Survivors’ Centre of the Meat Puppets, newly remastered with Peter Green in 1970, and we were able to becomes available via the internet this autumn, (C830) and 91 interviews by Ronald Fraser additional tracks and multi-media features. From secure from Robert Fripp’s company DGM details and summaries of all these interviews made in preparation for his book 1968 – A Chess we received a box of 18 CDs entitled a series of ten fanclub only CDs of live will be accessible on line. Even without this Student Generation in Revolt (C896). ‘The Chess Story’ complete with CD-ROM performances by various incarnations of his group King Crimson. We received a private tape collection of company working in the pop music field and is Cliff Richard recordings which includes a representative of high-quality independent radio complete set of rare mono reel-to-reel pop on the air programming since the 1990 Broadcasting Act. tape versions of his albums c.1956-65.And the Unique archive This will help us provide for the needs of higher a memento of another pop-star-turned- education media courses which are increasingly household-name was very kindly given by by Andy Linehan offering radio studies options. Leading academics an English language radio station in Cyprus: in this field have recently formed a Radio Studies a recording of the last known interview At a ceremony preceding the 50th meeting of Network and we are cooperating with them in with Screaming Lord Sutch, broadcast live the NSA Consultative Committee we were identifying suitable material for study. As Music shortly before his death last year. delighted to receive a large donation of Radio enters the frame, programmes which we recordings from the archive of the independent might not formerly have kept on the grounds radio production company, Unique Broadcasting. that the content was of ephemeral interest are ■ Western Art Music Included were a number of documentary and seen to have their own intrinsic value. The feature programmes together with examples of Unique Broadcasting collection provides a good Dr. Fox, presenter on the Pepsi Chart Show Contacts made through the first series of syndicated pop shows such as the Pepsi Chart foundation for these future developments. interviews with many pop artists.The tapes from Patrick Saul seminars resulted in some show and Mike Smith’s ‘ with Quick Of course our existing collections continue the programme sharing scheme run by the noteworthy acquisitions, such as a Brew’. The latter featured interviews with pairs to provide much of value to students of pop Association of Independent Radio Contractors collection of taped broadcasts by the of members of the same family with a pop music presentation. We have the Kenny Everett in the 1980s give another cross section of quality influential English performing group connection, such as Kim and Marty Wilde, Neil Archive (C723) together with long-term independent radio.And we take in the cream of Musica Reservata, hardly any of which Sedaka and daughter, Tom Jones and son, The coverage of BBC Radio 1 live sessions hosted by each year’s radio from the Sony Awards have been preserved by the BBC,and CDs Osmonds and The Bee Gees. John Peel.The Capital Radio Archive (C628) reflects competition entries. In the developing field of produced by Anthony Rooley for sale at The collection is the first to be deposited that station’s early high quality independent radio studies we intend to remain a chief his own concerts. 40 recordings of 6 by an independent programme production production and includes performances and provider of the full range of source material. interviews with orchestral musicians made for the book Orchestra! ‘by’ Andre Previn (London, 1978, C907) were deposited by conductor sans frontières Michael Foss;and we received further recordings of broadcasts which include Otto Klemperer the Mackerras collection conducting a cycle of live Beethoven concerts by Timothy Day with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1957 (1CDR0000901-903, 905, 911, 935); Britten’s There are a considerable number of the collection only contain serious music.

Peter Grimes with Jon Vickers and Colin Davis, ner private tapes of Sir Charles’s own live There, sandwiched between Mahler and

and Death in Venice in its first American performances: these include Janácek˘ in n production with Steuart Bedford (C904) from Sir Charles Mackerras John Gar Perth, Smetana in Prague with the Czech the Metropolitan Opera, New York; and piano Philharmonic Orchestra in 1989, Gounod’s performances by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli The Australian conductor Sir Charles Faust at the Paris Opéra, Meyerbeer in San in 1959 and 1974 (1CDR0000581-2). Mackerras has donated a considerable number Francisco, Elgar in St Louis, Janácek˘ and Donald Souther of 78s, LPs and privately-recorded tapes of his Sibelius in Chicago; and Mahler in own performances. Sir Charles is an authority Melbourne and Mozart in Sydney. Among ■ Wildlife Sounds on Slavonic music and Janácek˘ in particular – he the BBC performances is a 1956 broadcast is Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech of Joan Sutherland singing Haydn with the Numerous collections of original recordings were Philharmonic Orchestra – so it is not surprising Goldsborough Orchestra. Of particular received, including rarities such as a new-born that these discs fill in a number of gaps in our interest are the recordings which dolphin and its mother, bird species from Bolivia holdings on the Hungaroton and Supraphon document Sir Charles’s acclaimed period and New Caledonia and Gillian Sales’s collection labels.There are also Australian pressings of 78s as music director of English National John Mitchinson and Rita Hunter in ENO’s ‘Idomeneo’ of ultrasonic mammal recordings. We were also not currently held in the Archive, together with Opera. Opera enthusiasts will be able to add the complete tape collection of bird some rarities including Lukas Foss’s Bach- fascinated to listen back on performances such Donizetti, we found an Australian disc from the recordings compiled for the authoritative ‘Birds of Malloch Art of Fuguing and an LP ‘From as Smetana’s Dalibor with Anne Evans and beginning of her career starring Dame Edna the Western Palearctic’ books Eisenstadt’s Haydn-House’. Mozart’s Idomeneo with Rita Hunter. Nor does Everage.

Taylor, Don (compiler) of a new series of volumes (expected to be anthropology, history, linguistics, musicology, recent additions The English 78 picture book: vintage sound published twice yearly) which explore how memory ethnomusicology, theology and medicine. recordings from the 1890s to the 1970s. is shaped and represented in different cultures. to the NSA Library Artemis Publishing Consultants.Tasmania, Australia White, Paul Nicholson, Stuart This is a book for label collectors: an illustrated Rust, E. Gardner The sound on sound book of creative catalogue of the hundreds of English 78 labels to The Music and Dance of the World's Religions: recording: effects and processors have come and gone from the 1890s onwards. a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of Sanctuary Publishing. London, 1999 Ella Fitzgerald, 1917– 1996 materials in the English language This is the first complete guide to understanding Scolar Press. Indigo. London, 1996 Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson (editors) Greenwood Press. CT, 1996 and using effects and signal processors in a creative A meticulously researched jazz biography which Narrative and Genre This book includes references to religions from recording environment, offering valuable tips on includes a through discography (with session Routledge. London, 1998 every region of the world. Authors draw how best to use such treatments in a practical 7 details) by a notable jazz historian, Phil Schaap. As part of our Oral History collection, this is one from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, recording setting. nsa user profile events sir denis forman

Sir Denis Forman’s career has included positions at the highest level in television,film,music and ■ Tenth London International Jewish Music education. In a long association with Granada, serving notably as Chairman of Granada Festival Television from 1974 to 1987 and Deputy Chairman of the Granada Group from 1984 to The largest festival of Jewish music ever held 1990,he was closely involved with such programmes as ‘World in Action’,‘What the Papers Say’ in the UK Tel: 020 8909 2445 and ‘The Jewel in the Crown’.After distinguished war service, he was appointed Director of the Website: www.jmi.org,uk British Film Institute in 1948.He was Chairman of Novello and Co music publishers from 1970 June 11-July 13 to 1985, Deputy Chairman of House, and Chairman of the Opera Board 1983-1991. He has received honorary degrees from seven universities and was Chairman of ■ IASA Conference 2000 the judges for the Booker literary prize in 1990. Among his own books are ‘Mozart’s Piano This year’s conference of the International eturn this slip to this slip to eturn Concertos – The First Movement’,the ‘Good Opera Guide’,and three volumes of autobiography. Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives at National Archives of Singapore Contact: Irene Lim and Karen Chan When did you first come to end of the world,which is what you I had great difficulty tracking Tel: 65-332 7974 the National Sound Archive? need when you are using sound down scores by earlier German Fax: 65-339 5697 London NW1 2DB London It was last year. I was writing a book recordings for your research. Now composers, such as J.C. Bach and E-mail: [email protected] about Wagner’s and was I have completed that book and C.P.E. Bach. It was marvellous to July 1-7 please fill in and r fill in and please , researching the first two operas, have started work on another find those in the Music Library. ■ ‘The Popular Musician – performance, Die Feen and Das Liebesverbot,which about Mozart’s piano concertos, poetics, power’ e to be are very little known.I had tried the which is an area of the repertoire Did you experience any International Association for the Study of London Library and the BBC, my where recordings are more problems using the NSA Popular Music (IASPM) UK 2000 Conference 96 Euston Road, 96 Euston ,

e usual ports of call, for the scores, accessible, but I would certainly services? at the University of Surrey, Guildford ould lik ould but without success. Then I rang come to use the service again. The staff were attentive, polite and Contact:Andy Bennett chiv Tel: 01483-300800 Ar the British Library to see if there efficient. Getting a user pass is no E-mail:[email protected] was any chance there and found What should the National problem, as long as you arrive early Website: www.iaspm.net that the Music Library had the Sound Archive be collecting in the morning. The reading room July 7-9 scores I needed. I was able to for the future? service was also excellent, although ■ WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) 2000 consult them and hear recordings Early recordings should be if you are a disabled person, you

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y National Sound Sound y National the changes in performing styles. counter for very long. In the early Tel: 0118-939 0930 Was it helpful to use the For example, think of Mozart, 1970s, when I was chairman of the July 21-23 Listening & Viewing Service in which is my own subject. At the British Film Institute, my contact ■ Oral History training courses conjunction with the Music beginning of the century his music minister in the government was One-day courses in oral history techniques

eady on the NSA’ eady Library’s printed scores? was hardly played at all; then came David Eccles, who was responsible At The Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Absolutely – it was exactly what I the revival of the 1920s and ’30s; for setting up the British Library.At Newcastle The British Librar The British wanted. I sat in one of the listening and in recent years we have seen that time I thought that books, for September 12 At the Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art e not alr e not CK, booths, carrels you call them, in the the rise of period performance all their intrinsic beauty, were a A Gallery, Edmund Street, Birmingham Rare Books and Music Reading practice. Also, early scores are so thing of the past. Now, having used

YB October 26 ou ar Room day after day. It was so silent useful. When I was researching the British Library, I bless David Contact: Rob Perks, NSA If y 8 PLA ADDRESS there that it could have been the the origins of the concerto form, Eccles for his foresight! Tel: 020 7412 7405. Fax: 020 7412 7441 E-mail: [email protected]