Croydon Philarmonic Friends Association correspondence
- AR792
- Collection
- 1977 - 1992
File of correspondence of John Gent, Chairman of Association 1975-1992 when falling membership meant that the Association was wound up.
Croydon Philharmonic Society
Croydon Philarmonic Friends Association correspondence
File of correspondence of John Gent, Chairman of Association 1975-1992 when falling membership meant that the Association was wound up.
Croydon Philharmonic Society
Croydon Philarmonic Friends Association: Minute Book
1 volume with some inserts
Croydon Philharmonic Society
Croydon Philharmonic Society Recordings: Five Tudor Portraits by Ralph Vaughan Williams
5 lacquered aluminium gramophone disks, carrying recording of R. Vaughan Williams, Five Tudor Portraits (disjointed excerpts), performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra and Croydon Philharmonic Society, etc, and broadcast on the BBC National Programme, 27 Jan 1937.
Five Tudor Portraits consists of settings of poems By John Skelton (1460-1529). It was first performed in September 1936 at the Norwich Festival. This recording is from its first London performance, broadcast on the BBC on 27 Jan 1937. The broadcast ran from 8.44pm to 9.32pm: it therefore overran slightly, and the 9.30 Greenwich Time Signal can be heard towards the end of the recording.
Another performance was given at North End Hall, Croydon, on 4 Dec 1937, by Croydon Philharmonic Society and the London Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams was in the audience, and this performance was also broadcast.
The discs are numbered 418-421 and 492. The recording appears to have been made on a single disc cutting machine. There are therefore lost pieces of the performance between sides, due to side changing; and there are also recording skips, due to cutting errors, on sides 1 and 6. Approximately 35 minutes of recorded material survives, from a performance lasting 48 minutes. Disc 492 (one sided) is a different generation recording from the rest of the material, and fills the skip on side 6. It may have been dubbed from another recording of the same performance; or it is possible (although unlikely) that it was taken from the December performance.
Croydon Philharmonic Society
Records of Croydon Philharmonic Society and Predecessor Bodies
Box 1
Minutes of Committee Meetings:
1909 - 1914, 1920 (String Players Club was precursor of Croydon Symphony Orchestra. Until c.1926, concerts were joint between CPS and CSO. From then on, they became independent.)
1921 - 1922
1922 - 1928
1928 - 1934
1951 - 1957
1957 - 1960
1961 - 1964
1964 - 1968
1968 - 1973
1973 - 1976
Minutes of Annual General Meetings
1923 - 1939
1941 - 1962
1962 - 1979
Box 2
Programmes, November 1977 - December 2006
Box 3
Programmes, February 1927 - December 1959
Miscellaneous handbills
Box 4
Programmes, March 1960 - May 1977
Miscellaneous handbills
Box 5
Newsletters, February 1996 - October 2002
Minutes of Committee Meetings:
June 1981 - April 1991
June 1991 - April 1998
Collection of correspondence:
March 1975 - 31 October 1985
October 1985 - 31 December 1987
Publicity file including posters, newsletters and publicity invoices, 1986 - 1989
Box 6
Programme from 1964
Box of miscellaneous items including:
newspaper cuttings
photographs
membership paperwork
memorabilia
items related to the Fairfield Halls
Books of news cuttings:
1911 - 1933
1914 - 1963? (loose cuttings in file)
1922 - 1938
1933 - 1945
1946 - 1956
Photographs:
Envelope dated 1991 - 1992
Rolled Photograph
Black and White - concert at Fairfield Halls
Recordings: 5 cassettes; details to follow.
Black Bag
Certificate of fellowship of Alan Kirby from the Trinity College of Music
Certificate of honorary membership of Alan Kirby from the Royal Academy of Music (1947)
Large print of concert at the Fairfield Halls
Framed photograph of a concert
Box 7 A1158 Croydon Philharmonic Society (Choir), 2000-2022
Annual General Meeting Minutes:
3 September 2002
2 September 2003
7 September 2004
Committee Minutes:
12 September 2000
15 October 2000
12 November 2000
4 January 2001
22 April 2001
9 September 2001
4 November 2001
13 January 2002
14 April 2002
23 June 2002
Summary of Publicity Materials 2018-2022
'Choral Classics' programme, 17 November 2018
'Christmas Cheer programme, 17 December 2018
'Choral Celebrations' flyer and programme, 30 March 2019
'Stardust' programme, 15 June 2019
'Verdi Requiem' flyer and programme, 26 October 2019
'Christmas Cheer' programme, 16 December 2019
'Choral Gems' flyer and programme, 14 November 2021
Christmas at Fairfield programme, 18 December 2021
'Carmina Burana' programme and flyer, 2 April 2022
'Choral Gems' poster, 26 April 2022
'Together at the Minster' flyers x 2, programme and poster, 18 June 2022
Box 8
Records relating to the Croydon Philharmonic Society (Choir), including:
Concert programmes and publicity material for 2018/19 and 2021/22 seasons
AGM minutes for 2002, 2003 and 2004
Committee meeting minutes for 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 seasons
Croydon Philharmonic Society