CHARLES KENNEDY SCOTT ARCHIVE
Catalogue created 14/11/2014 CONTENTS TITLE: CHARLES KENNEDY SCOTT ARCHIVE ...... 2 TITLE: PERSONAL PAPERS ...... 2 TITLE: WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS ...... 4 TITLE: PHOTOS, PRESS CUTTINGS, AND MEMORABILIA...... 5 TITLE: ORIANA MADRIGAL SOCIETY ...... 6 TITLE: MISC. CONCERT PROGRAMMES AND FLYERS ...... 7 TITLE: MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS ...... 11
Level: fonds Title: Charles Kennedy Scott Archive Reference: CKS Dates: 1876-1976 Extent: 1.74 linear metres (8 boxes) Name of creator: Scott, Charles Kennedy (1876-1965) Administrative/biographical history: Charles Kennedy Scott (1876–1965), organist, musical director, composer, writer, teacher; founded the Oriana Madrigal Society in 1904 and the Philharmonic Choir in 1919; elected fellow of RCM 1961; taught at TCM 1929-1965, conducted the College Choir, member of TCM Corporation and Board, TCM examiner Immediate source of acquisition: Largely unknown. Some material may have been the gift of Kathleen Ewart or family. Later acquisitions from Philip Miles (February 2004) and Barry Wyse (March 2012) are indicated in the catalogue. Scope and content: Papers rel. to Charles Kennedy Scott and his vocal ensembles. Also some material rel. to Kathleen Ewart (contralto). Archival history: Some material (noted in the catalogue) was transferred from the TCM archive in January 2009.
Level: series Title: Personal papers Reference: CKS 1 Dates: ca.1886-1976 Scope and content: personal notebooks and correspondence.
Level: file Title: Notebooks Reference: CKS 1/1 Dates: ca.1908-1956 Scope and content: 5 notebooks, some with press cuttings and other enclosures. Archival history: Transferred from TCM archive January 2009.
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/1/1 Date: ca.1908 Scope and content: small maroon notebook.
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/1/2 Date: 1925-1929 Scope and content: small black notebook labelled ‘Notes CKS 1925-29’.
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/1/3 Date: ca.1936 Scope and content: small black notebook.
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/1/4 Date: ca.1937-1956 Scope and content: small black notebook labelled ‘private notebook,’ includes letter from Lady Bantock following Granville Bantock’s death in 1946.
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/1/5 Date: undated Scope and content: small black notebook mainly containing notes on singing.
Level: file Title: Correspondence Reference: CKS 1/2 Dates: 1925-1937 Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Philip Miles (February 2004)
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/2/1 Date: 29 October 1925 Scope and content: Letter from Percy Grainger to Charles Kennedy Scott.
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/2/2 Date: 29 September 1927 Scope and content: Letter from H. Balfour Gardiner to Charles Kennedy Scott.
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/2/3 Date: 2 April 1935 Scope and content: Letter from Hubert Foss to Charles Kennedy Scott, ms on Oxford University Press headed notepaper.
Level: item Reference: CKS 1/2/4 Date: 26 November 1937 Scope and content: Letter from Edmund Rubbra to Charles Kennedy Scott.
Level: series Title: Writings and publications Reference: CKS 2 Dates: ca.1910-1950 Scope and content: writings and publications by Charles Kennedy Scott Archival history: Transferred from TCM archive January 2009.
Level: file Title: Delius file Reference: CKS 2/1 Dates: ca.1915-1950 Scope and content: Material rel. to Charles Kennedy Scott’s article about Delius in Peter Warlock, Frederick Delius, rev. ed. (1952), incl. correspondence with Hubert Foss (dated 1950), edited typescript, ms. original (written on Oriana Madrigal Society flyers from 1949), copy letters from H. Balfour Gardiner (dated 1915 and 1926). All originally encl. in envelope addressed to CKS postmarked 13 June 1950 (also included in file).
Level: file Title: Misc. items Reference: CKS 2/2
Level: item Reference: CKS 2/2/1 Date: 1910 Scope and content: A Talk about Polyphonic Music. See library catalogue for full details (item 129168-1001).
Level: item Reference: CKS 2/2/2 Date: undated Scope and content: Typescript for Epworth Psalter preface.
Level: item Reference: CKS 2/2/3 Date: 1910 Scope and content: A Book of Old Carols. See library catalogue for full details (item 129169-1001).
Level: file Title: Euterpe Reference: CKS 2/3 Dates: 1905- Scope and content: Euterpe: A Collection of Madrigals and other Music of the XVI and XVII Centuries. Three sets, multiple copies (one first edition, two later editions). One set, almost complete, came from the archives of Oxford University Press and is inscribed ‘To wish dear Philip and Elizabeth [Miles] all happiness on their wedding day and ever after, Ch Kennedy Scott, Aug 18/56’. Immediate source of acquisition: Copy inscribed by CKS the gift of Philip Miles (February 2004).
Level: series Title: Photos, press cuttings, and memorabilia Reference: CKS 3 Dates: ca.1905-1965 Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Kathleen Ewart? Scope and content: photographs, press cuttings and memorabilia rel. to Charles Kennedy Scott.
Level: file Title: Photographs Reference: CKS 3/1 Dates: mostly undated Scope and content: Photographs of Charles Kennedy Scott and possibly members of the Oriana Madrigal Society. Two inscribed on reverse to Kathleen Ewart by Charles Kennedy Scott.
Level: file Title: Press cuttings Reference: CKS 3/2 Dates: 1947-1965 Scope and content: Press cuttings rel. to Charles Kennedy Scott and the Oriana Madrigal Society. Also extract from Delius: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hutchings.
Level: file Title: Memorials and tributes Reference: CKS 3/3 Dates: 1951-1965
Level: item Reference: CKS 3/3/1 Date: 16 November 1951 Scope and content: Items rel. to tribute dinner to Charles Kennedy Scott including invitation, place setting, list of guests, music.
Level: item Reference: CKS 3/3/2 Date: April 1966 Scope and content: Trinity College of Music Guild Newsletter no. 13 including review of Charles Kennedy Scott’s memorial service.
Level: item Reference: CKS 3/3/3 Date: April 1966 Scope and content: Issue number 44 of Performing Right including tribute to Charles Kennedy Scott by Paul Jennings.
Level: item Reference: CKS 3/3/4 Date: September 1965 Scope and content: Issue of Humanist News including tribute to Charles Kennedy Scott by Michael Pope.
Level: series Title: Oriana Madrigal Society Reference: CKS 4 Dates: 1905-1961 Scope and content: Material rel. to Oriana Madrigal Society which CKS founded in 1905 and continued to conduct until he retired in 1961 when it was decided that the choir would disband.
Level: file Title: Programmes Reference: CKS 4/1 Dates: 1905-1961 Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Kathleen Ewart? Scope and content: Concert programmes. Also a prospectus for the society and formal dinner menus in honour of the society and one for the Bristol Philharmonic Society. Most of the programmes are itemized on the Concert Programmes Database http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/ 4338 Archival history: the first two programmes (4 July 1905 and 8 February 1906) transferred from the TCM archive in January 2009.
Level: file Title: Barry Wyse Reference: CKS 4/2 Dates: 1961-1962 Immediate source of acquisition: Donated by Barry Wyse, former member of Oriana Madrigal Society, March 2012. Scope and content: copies of two Oriana Madrigal Society programmes (12 June 1961 and 28 June 1961) and one TCM concert programme (15 May 1962). Also copy of Oriana Madrigal Society ‘arrangements’ for end of season [1961] and covering letter from Barry Wyse with reminiscences of his time singing in the Oriana Madrigal Society.
Level: file Title: Other items Reference: CKS 4/3 Dates: undated Archival history: Transferred from the TCM archive in January 2009.
Level: item Reference: CKS 4/3/1 Date: undated Scope and content: Music catalogue for the Oriana Madrigal Society.
Level: item Reference: CKS 4/3/2 Date: 14 April 1958 Scope and content: Recording of Oriana Madrigal Society on 33 ½ R.P.M. vinyl, produced Olympia Sound.
Level: series Title: Misc. concert programmes and flyers Reference: CKS 5 Dates: 1929-1976 Scope and content: most of the programmes are itemized on the Concert Programmes Database http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/4338
Level: file Title: TCM concert Programmes Reference: CKS 5/1 Dates: ca.1940-1976 Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Kathleen Ewart? Scope and content: Mostly involving CKS, some with Phoebus Singers, some with Kathleen Ewart. Includes Charles Kennedy Scott centenary concert, conducted by James Gaddarn, 16 November 1976
Level: file Title: Phoebus Singers Programmes Reference: CKS 5/2 Dates: 1940s, some undated Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Kathleen Ewart?
Level: file Title: Philharmonic Choir, Royal Philharmonic Society and Bach Cantata Club Programmes Reference: CKS 5/3 Dates: 1929-1951 Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Kathleen Ewart?
Level: item Reference: 5/3/1 Date: 26 March 1929 Scope and content: Programme for Philharmonic Choir concert (conductor Charles Kennedy Scott), Queen’s Hall, 26 March 1929 at 8pm.
Level: item Reference: 5/3/2 Date: 4 November 1937 Scope and content: Programme for Royal Philharmonic Society concert (conductor Nadia Boulanger), Queen’s Hall, 4 November 1937. Press cuttings encl.
Level: item Reference: 5/3/3 Date: 24 October 1950 Scope and content: Programme for Bach Cantata Club concert (with the Oriana Madrigal Society, conductor Charles Kennedy Scott), St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster, 24 October 1950.
Level: item Reference: 5/3/4 Date: 14 November 1951 Scope and content: Programme for Royal Philharmonic Society (with the Oriana Madrigal Society, conductors Basil Cameron and Charles Kennedy Scott), Royal Festival Hall, 14 November 1951.
Level: file Title: Memorial Programmes Reference: CKS 5/4 Dates: 1943-1965 Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Kathleen Ewart?
Level: item Reference: 5/4/1 Date: 20 July 1943 Scope and content: Programme for memorial service for Major A. J. C. Freshwater (1876-1943) held at St. Martin-in- the-Fields, 20 July 1943 at 12.30pm. Press cutting enclosed.
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/2 Date: 3 November 1946 Scope and content: Programme for memorial service held in memory of Sir Granville Bantock at Trinity College of Music, 3 November 1946 at 3.30pm. Encl. press cutting and letter from Dr Rees to Miss [Kathleen] Ewart thanking her for her attendance and contribution with the Phoebus Singers at the service.
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/3 Date: 23 April 1951 Scope and content: Programme for memorial concert of works by H. Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) held at the French Institute, Queensbury Place, London, 23 April 1951.
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/4 Date: [1952] Scope and content: Memorial programme for Herbert Murrill (1909-1952)
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/5 Date: 22 April 1953 Scope and content: Programme for memorial service for Thomas Bertie Lawrence held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 22 April 1953
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/6 Date: 14 October 1953 Scope and content: Programme for memorial service for Roger Quilter held at the church of St. Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, London, 14 October 1953 at 11.30am.
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/7 Date: 20 October 1953 Scope and content: Programme for memorial service for Arnold Bax (1883-1953) held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 20 October 1953 at 11.30am.
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/8 Date: 24 November [1953] Scope and content: Programme for memorial service for Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953) held at Southwark Cathedral 24 November at 12.15pm.
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/9 Date: 4 December 1958 Scope and content: Programme for memorial service for Ralph Vaughan Williams held at the church of St. Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, London, 4 December 1958 at 6.30pm.
Level: item Reference: CKS 5/4/10 Date: 5 October 1965 Scope and content: Programme for memorial service for Charles Kennedy Scott (1876-1965) held at the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, London, 5 October 1965 at 12 noon. Two copies, one with newspaper cutting encl.
Level: file Title: Kathleen Ewart Concert Programmes Reference: CKS 5/5 Dates: 1935-1962 (some undated) Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Kathleen Ewart? Scope and content: Programmes for concerts mostly involving Kathleen Ewart. Some also involving Charles Kennedy Scott.
Level: series Title: Music manuscripts Reference: CKS 6 Dates: ca.1875-1965 Scope and content: Music compositions by Charles Kennedy Scott. Archival history: Transferred from TCM archive January 2009.
Level: file Title: Individual works Reference: CKS 6/1 Dates: mostly undated Scope and content: Itemized on library catalogue – search MS / SCOTT under shelfmark browse.
Level: file Title: Psalm tunes Reference: CKS 6/2 Dates: ‘Final selection’ dated 1952 Extent: 9 exercise books
Level: file Title: Fragments and sketches Reference: CKS 6/3 Dates: [undated] Extent: 1 exercise book + loose leaves