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Level: Item / Extent: 1 folio
Dates: c1967
Description: Pitfield thanks Canon Ridgway for going through his script and for his observations - nearly all have prompted revisions. Pitfield goes on to discuss Ridgway's suggestions, and it seems the script referred to is Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures' (which is indeed dedicated to Ridgway). The letter is simply dated 'May'; 'Adam and the Creatures' received its first performance in February 1968 so the letter perhaps dates from May 1967.
Level: Item / Extent: 1 item
Dates: 25-May-75
Description: The programme includes a foreword by Thomas Pitfield. The event was sponsored by the Cheshire Vegetarian Society
Level: Item / Extent: 2 items
Dates: 1972
Description: This edition of the score was published by Sam Fox Publishing Company, Inc., New York. Pitfield has written on the front cover , 'Maurice Ridgway from Tom Pitfield'. There is a letter enclosed in the score from Pitfield to Ridgway: Pitfield encloses the copies, apologising that they look a little 'pawed', and thanks Maurice again for his kind and fruitful intervention; Pitfield also hopes that Kenneth Allway is settling in satisfactorily.
Level: Item / Extent: 1 item
Dates: 1972
Description: This edition was published by Sam Fox Publishing Company, Inc. New York.
Level: Item / Extent: 1 folio
Dates: undated
Description: The programme lists the performers, the designers of the masks, stage management, musicians, and chorus; Maurice Ridgway was Reader 1 for this performance. The back of the programme provides the words for two hyms, 'Hymn 1' and 'Hymn 2, Canticle of All Created Things (St Francis)'. It appears that the audience were intended to join in the performance by singing these two hymns.
Level: Item / Extent: 1 folio
Dates: undated
Description: This copy was handwritten by Thomas Pitfield. He has noted that it is to be performed by chorus and audience.
Level: Item / Extent: 1 folio
Dates: undated
Description: Typed elegy which has been annotated in both pen and pencil. Thomas Pitfield has signed the bottom of the poem.
Level: Item / Extent: 1 item
Dates: undated
Description: Subjects include Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Tippett and McCabe. Thomas Pitfield has written on the front of this copy, 'Maurice Ridgway from Thomas Pitfield'.
Level: Item / Extent: 1 item
Dates: undated
Description: The inside reads 'Christmas and New Year Greetings from Tom and Alice' and the Pitfield's address is provided at the bottom.
Level: Item / Extent: 1 volume
Dates: 1951
Description: Thomas Pitfield has signed his name on the inside cover of this volume.
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