Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/1
Title: Letter from Thomas Pitfield to Canon Maurice Ridgway
Level: Item
Extent: 1 folio
Creator:
Dates: c1967
Scope and content: 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.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/2
Title: Concert programme for performance of Thomas Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures' at St John's Church, Chester
Level: Item
Extent: 1 item
Creator:
Dates: 25-May-75
Scope and content: The programme includes a foreword by Thomas Pitfield. The event was sponsored by the Cheshire Vegetarian Society

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/3
Title: Vocal score for 'Adam and the Creatures' by Thomas Pitfield
Level: Item
Extent: 2 items
Creator:
Dates: 1972
Scope and content: 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.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/4
Title: Libretto (with chorus part) for Thomas Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures'
Level: Item
Extent: 1 item
Creator:
Dates: 1972
Scope and content: This edition was published by Sam Fox Publishing Company, Inc. New York.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/5
Title: Programme for a performance of Thomas Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures' at the Bowdon Festival
Level: Item
Extent: 1 folio
Creator:
Dates: undated
Scope and content: 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.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/6
Title: Handwritten copy of 'Final Hymn, Canticle of All Created Things (St Francis)', featured in Thomas Pitfield's 'Adam and the Creatures'
Level: Item
Extent: 1 folio
Creator:
Dates: undated
Scope and content: This copy was handwritten by Thomas Pitfield. He has noted that it is to be performed by chorus and audience.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/7
Title: 'Elegy for a demolished church (Dome Chapel)' by Thomas Pitfield
Level: Item
Extent: 1 folio
Creator:
Dates: undated
Scope and content: Typed elegy which has been annotated in both pen and pencil. Thomas Pitfield has signed the bottom of the poem.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/8
Title: '25 Limericks, Musicians and Others' by Thomas Pitfield
Level: Item
Extent: 1 item
Creator:
Dates: undated
Scope and content: Subjects include Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Tippett and McCabe. Thomas Pitfield has written on the front of this copy, 'Maurice Ridgway from Thomas Pitfield'.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/9
Title: Christmas Card designed by Thomas Pitfield, with music for 'Child and Beast' on the cover
Level: Item
Extent: 1 item
Creator:
Dates: undated
Scope and content: The inside reads 'Christmas and New Year Greetings from Tom and Alice' and the Pitfield's address is provided at the bottom.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield material collected by Canon Ridgway
Reference: CR/10
Title: 'Words Without Songs', by Thomas Pitfield with introduction by Walter de la Mare
Level: Item
Extent: 1 volume
Creator:
Dates: 1951
Scope and content: Thomas Pitfield has signed his name on the inside cover of this volume.