Exhibition
Alan Rawsthorne 1957-1973
Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) was a Lancashire-born composer. He was a student at the Royal Manchester College of Music.
Exhibits
TP/3/4/4/30 - RNCM
Composers Guild AGM - 1 page
17-Dec-66
Portraits sketched by TBP of musicians including Alan Rawsthorne and Wilfred Josephs
TP/3/2/1/2 - RNCM
The Creel - 168 pages
1991
Journal of the Alan Rawsthorne Society Vol 1 No.4 Spring. Inside cover shows a sketch by TBP for The Composers' Guild Annual Meeting 1965.
PC/27/2/32 - Hallé Archives
Concert review - Contemporary Music Centre
nd [1938]
NC. Mentions performance of a new work by Alan Rawsthorne. Players mentioned include Sidney Partington.
AR - RNCM
Alan Rawsthorne Papers - 9 series; approx. 242 files
1861-1998
MS works of Alan Rawsthorne including manuscripts of most of his published works. In addition there are manuscripts of many unpublished pieces, most from early in the composer's career. Rawsthorne composed symphonies, concerti, chamber music, film music, and music for solo instrument and voice. There is a set of recordings on cassette of most of the composer's output, together with the composer's own collection of discs and tapes, many of which are private, historic performances of first performances. Among other items are to be found correspondence chiefly with family members, writings by the composer including items of juvenilia, and press cuttings collected over the whole of his career. Medals and awards, transcripts and notes of broadcasts and lectures, some photographs, and programmes are also included.
TP/4/4/2 - RNCM
Greeting Cards 2 - 58 cards
1962 - 1996
Greeting Cards designed by TBP collated and mounted on paper in a ring binder and arranged in chronological order and numbered by TBP. List of titles and manuscript notes by TBP where appropriate: Christmas Greetings, sketch of view from TBP's window in winter; sketch of house untitled; Hushed is the night Polish Carol (For Bayliss); Christmas Greetings (For Gordon and Phylis Lowe; Bowdon Cheshire; Greetings from Tom and Alice Pitfield; Pen and ink drawing untitled (For Bowdon Church); Christ-mass greetings; Vale farm house (Barbara Rawsthorne); Linocut image of 11 angels - untitled; Mere Golf and Coutry Club; King Street Knutsford (For Mike Shaw); Bankhall Hale; City Magistrates Court Manchester; Greetings from John Turner; The Coachouse Shockfrwick; Heather Hill, Rostherne View Bowdon; The Stamford Chapel St Mary's Church Bowdon; Forest School Timperley; Dunham Road Unitarian Chapel; Waen Newydd; Beech-Boles Dunham Park; Flowery Field House Hyde; Parkdale Altrincham Cheshire; Bickham House Bowdon; Bowdon Croft; Contorted Tree Dunham Park; Ex Libris John Turner; St John the Evangelist Altrincham; Eddisbury Hall; Greetings from John Turner; Christmas Greetings from John Turner; Christmas Greetings The Cherry Tree Carol; Child and Beast; Church Minshull; Greetings from John Turner; Greetings for Christmas and the New Year from the Partners and Staff of George Davies and Co.; Christmas greetings from Kath Curry; Christmas Greetings from John and Margaret Turner; Christmas Blessings; Christmas Wellwishings; Bell Carol Greeting; Greetings Beatitude; The Season's Blessings.
TP/10/1 - RNCM
Correspondence 1927-1959 - 105 items
1927-1959
Letters to TBP from various people. TBP created a numbered index as follows: 1.R[oyal] C[ollege] [of] M[usic] 2. Harold Minro 3. Missing, index shows: Sir Arthur Muther-Cowel 4. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bolton 5 - 8. Stan Horridge 9-11 Missing, index shows Coleen Taylor, Eric Fogg and Eric Fogg 12. Hubert Foss (OUP ed) 13. R. Whearley 14-15. W.F. Forrester representing Methuen & Co Publishers 16. Margaret Gardiner 17. Peter Howard 18. Walter Wilkinson 19-22. Missing, index shows Doctor Sheppard 23. Mass Plowman 24-25. Beatrice Jayne 26. Maurice Jacobson 27. W. Wilkinson 28. Missing, index shows Alan Rawsthorne 29. Michael Mullineux 30. Gordon Green 31. Beryl Edwards 32-33. Walter Wilkinson 34. Gordon Green 35. Missing, index shows H. M. Miller 36. Lothar Eisner 37-39 Stan Horridge 40. Gordon Green 41. Index shows Victor Hurly Hutchinson - letters show "Frank Singleton" 42. R. J. Forbes 43. Missing, index shows Lesley howard 44. Kendal School 45. New Statesman 46. Elizabeth Strachan 47-48 National Society of Art Masters 49. Alice [Pitfield] 50. Missing, index shows W. Wilkinson 51. P.R.S. Benevolent Fund 52. Tettenhall College 53. Wrekin College 54. Missing, index shows Gerald Finzi 55. Horridge 56. Michael Mullineux 57. Missing, index shows Ingel Kramer 58. Stanley Pitfield 59. Tettenhall College 60. Missing, index shows Jean Hughes 61. Evelyn Scragy 62. Horrace Pearson (Tettenhall College) 63. Gordon Green 64. R[oyal] C[ollege] [of] M[usic] 65. Kramer 66. National Service (concientious objector . Statement) 67-8. Missing, index shows Clarence Raybould 69. Hubert Foss 70. Missing 71. Leibetegger 72. Michael Mullineux 73. Julius Harrison 74. Evlyn Scragy 75. Missing, index shows Britten 76-77. V. W. Anne Gilchrist 78. R. J. Forbes 79. Missing, index shows Arthur Catterall 80. Gordon Green 81-82 Missing , index shows E. J. Moeran and Britten, 83. F. T. Bushea 84. Maurice Rowntree 85. Carl Fuchs 86. Wilfred Hodgkinson 87. T. V. Deacon 88. R. A. Finch 89. R[oyal] M[anchester] C[ollege] [of] M[usic] 90. David Firth 91. Missing, index shows Matgus Seiber 92. Mervyn Roberts 93. Missing, index shows Michael Tippett 94. Peter Mountain 95. Missing, index shows Stanley Godman 96. Frank Singleton 97. John Wardle 98. Gordon Green 99. Sarah Holden 100. S Godman 101. Robert Elliott 102. Doreen Boueton 103. John Ogdon 104. Missing, index shows Ellis 105. Gwilym Jones 106. Missing, index shows Bernard Stevens 107. De La Mare 108. Verona 109. Fritz Spiegl 110. Walter Wilkinson 111. Phoebe Hesketh 112. Geo. Dodgson 113-114. Missing, index shows Christopher Hasull and Percy Scholes 115. Barbirolli 116. Missing, index shows De La Mare 117. Hubert Foss 118. Copy of letter to Richard Hall 119. Stephen Wearing 120. Copy of letter to Harry Eckersley 121-123. R. J. Forbes 124. Grace Temple 125. R[oyal] Academy of Arts 126. Disenbromen 127. Geoffrey Johnson 128. W. Wilkinson 129. Hubert Foss
PC/24/122 - Hallé Archives
CD No.122
1951-1969
Elgar, Land of Hope & Glory [Kathleen Ferrier & choir]; Vaughan Williams, Symphony No8; Alan Rawsthorne, Street Corner, overture; Bax, Oboe Quintet, arr. Barbirolli; Delius, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring; Walton, Crown Imperial, Coronation March.
RMCM/E/4/21 - RNCM
General correspondence 1964/5 - 22 folders
Aug 1964-Jul 1965
General correspondence of Cox and Brierley. Subjects and correspondents include collaboration with the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala; staff, alumni and students (including references), including the death of Norman Andrew; advertisements; potential students; the Arts Council, particularly Cox's work on the Musical Advisory Panel; Backhaus' admission to Honorary Membership of the College; equipment and furniture; instruments; financial matters, including correspondence with Leonard Behrens; advice for the Birmingham School of Music; assistance with the appointment of Music Organiser for Bolton; scholarships and visits organised by the British Council; broadcasts and other work for the BBC; Leonard Behrens; grants from local authorities; a visit by Christ Church School Denton; equipment and stationery; invitations to participate in festivals and to give concerts; assistance to Max van Egmond with auditions, including for Barbirolli; the restoration of instruments; translations of the Grieg-Brodsky letters; the Hallé Concerts Society; arrangements with Ibbs and Tillett for artists including van Egmond and Gerard Souzay; the appointment of a (string) quartet in residence at Keele University; the College President; celebratory concert for Alan Rawsthorne; examining by and Fellowship for Noel Rawsthorne; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; the RAM; the RCM; music teaching at St Martin's College; activities of the Students Association; collaboration with the University of Manchester; financial matters; the Treasurer.
RMCM/C/5 - RNCM
Register of Honorary Fellows - 100 ff.
7 Dec 1923-Dec 1973
The Honorary Fellowship was established on the recommendation of the Board of Professors by the Council, in May 1923. This date celebrated the award of the Royal Charter, and the 30th anniversary of the founding of the College. The Register contains names and in many cases, signatures, of those admitted as honorary FRMCM. Signatures include: f.1 Allin, Sarah Andrew f.2 Bradshaw, Evans f.3 Forbes, Isaacs f.4 Keighley, Lillie Wormald f.5 Maaskoff f.6 Alwyne, Lucy Pierce f.7 Smith, Edna Thornton f.8 Camden f.9 Catterall, Whitaker f.10 Wilcock, Dawber f.11 Mortimer f.13 Elsie Thurston f.14 Blinder f.16 Tyrer f.17 Holt f.18 Barker f.19 Dora Gilson f.20 Walker, Park f.21 Pitfield, Alan Rawsthorne f.22 Ryan f.23 Kathleen Moorhouse f.24 Paersch, Lofthouse f.25 Gilbert, Clifford f.26 Hirsch f.27 Andrew, Blech f.28 Green f.29 Knowles, Lewis f.30 Armstrong f.31 Marjorie Thomas f.32 Taylor f.33 Helliwell f.34 Hopkins f.35 Brierley, Cropper f.36 Johnson, Cummings f.37 Pamela Bowden f.38 Milner, Chadwick f.39 Ogdon, Mitchinson f.40 Noel Rawsthorne f.41 Partington f.42 Fell, Friend f.43 Elizabeth Harwood f.44 Stevenson f.49 Yvonne Tine Tiénot f.50 Davies, Birtwistle f.53 Barbara Robotham f.55 Davies, Frost f.56 Anne Howells, Nina Walker f.57 Winifred Busfield, Challis f.58 Griffiths, Jordan f.59 Keys, Barber f.60 Bradbury f.61 Goldstone, Hirons A full list of Fellows can be found in the Appendix to M. Kennedy The History of the Royal Manchester College of Music " (Manchester University Press, 1971)."
JO/002 - RNCM
Twenty-five preludes - 24 pp
c.1976
Written in black, red & green biro and black ink. Dedicated to Denis Matthews. . 2 versions: 1 in MS book, the other on loose sheets.. No.4: tribute to Erik Satie. . No.6: Nocturne. No.9: homage to Alan Rawsthorne [in loose version only]. No.16 in memory of DSCH [in loose version only - indicates that this was written in/after 1976, the year in which Shostakovich died]. . Slight differences between the 2 versions.
HA/PR/2/1/107/31 - Hallé Archives
Programmes: Concert Programme
2nd May 1965
Alan Rawsthorne 60th Birthday Concert. Solo Pianist George Hadjinikos
HA/PR/2/1/100/19 - Hallé Archives
Centenary Festival programme: [19th] Concert
16 Feb 1958
Soloist Endre Wolf (Violin). Incl world premiere of Alan Rawsthorne's Overture, Hallé, programme has a note by the composer. [Cover damaged].
HA/PR/2/1/97/16 - Hallé Archives
Programme: [16th] Concert
2-3 Feb 1955
Conducted by George Weldon. Soloist Clara Haskil Piano). Incl first Hallé performance of Alan Rawsthorne's Symphonic Studies. Notes on future concerts. [2 copies].
HA/PR/2/1/90/2 - Hallé Archives
Programme: [2nd] Concert
15-16 Oct 1947
Albert Hall. Soloists Isobel Baillie (Soprano), John Ayre (Horn). Incl first Hallé performances of Alan Rawsthorne's Overture 'Street Corner', and Gerald Finzi's 'Dies Natalis' cantata for soprano solo & string orchestra. [2 copies].
HA/PR/2/1/89/15 - Hallé Archives
Programme: [15th] concert
1-2 Jan 1947
Albert Hall. Incl first Hallé performance of Alan Rawsthorne's Fantasy-Overture 'Corteges', which was conducted by the composer.
DE/8/8 - RNCM
Hamlet by Alan Rawsthorne - 2 files, 1 bundle
undated
HA/H/1/3 - Hallé Archives
Issue Number 3
Dec-Jan 1946-47
Contents: Impressions of Vienna by John Barbirolli; Sibelius - and his Violin Concerto by Walter Legge, with a photograph of the composer; William Walton by Hubert Foss, with a photograph of the composer; Concerning the Suite by J H Elliot; The Second & Third Symphonies [Beethoven] by John Boulton [incl quotation re Beethoven as conductor]; Notes by the Bird-Call, D.B. Wyndham Lewis, Clarinets: a way out; note re latest negotiations with the BBC; profiles of conductors Alan Rawsthorne & Nicolai Malko; feature 'Know Your Orchestra' on Laurance Turner, Leader, with photo.
CC/9 - RNCM
Various Manchester concerts - 25 items
1886-1931
Many with cuttings. Includes programmes of plays presented by the Manchester Playgoers' Club, and The Unnamed Society (Carline Crampton played music by Alan Rawsthorne for these in 1928). Artists include Carl Fuchs and Kendrick Pyne.
BMC/CO/4/Rawsthorne - British Music Collection's Composer Files
Alan Rawsthorne - 1 file
1960s-2000s
Leaflet containing biography and list of works. RCM after part training to be a dentist and architect, studied abroad including under Egon Petri, taught at Dartington Hall 1932-34. Served in the Army in WW2. Awarded CBE in 1961, and made honorary Doctor of Music of Liverpool, Essex and Belfast Universities. Second wife was the painter, Isabel Rawsthorne who was sculpted by Giocometti and Epstein and had portraits painted by Derain, Picasso and Francis Bacon. She designed stage sets for ballets. Copies of "The Creel", the annual journal published by The Alan Rawsthorne Society from Spring 1990-Winter 2005-06 (not complete set). Also copies of the newsletter June 1996-Jun 2005 (again, not complete). The Society was set up to disseminate information about the composer and encourage recordings. Many many articles and reviews. Review "Rawsthorne at 60". Programme of Memorial Concert 24/11/71 at the Wigmore Hall presented by MacNaghten Concerts featured John Ogdon on piano.
HA/PR/1/1/73 - Hallé Archives
Bound programmes: 107th Season - 1 volume
1964-1965
Most covers have been removed, hence dates are not given in all cases. There are very few orchestra lists in this volume and they tend to be at the end of each programme rather than at the beginning. Indexed.
HA/PR/1/1/76 - Hallé Archives
Bound programmes: 110th Season - 1 volume
1967-1968
Covers bound. There are a few orchestra lists in the later programmes in this volume but they tend to be at the end of each programme rather than at the beginning. Not repertoire indexed.
HA/PR/1/1/81 - Hallé Archives
Bound programmes: 115th season - 1 volume
1972-1973
Most programmes include covers. Orchestra listed on inside of back covers. Repertoire index pasted into rear of volume.
HA/PR/1/1/82 - Hallé Archives
Bound programmes: 116th season - 1 volume
1973-1974
Most programmes include covers. Orchestra listed on inside of back covers. Repertoire index pasted into rear of volume.
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