Correspondence and papers relating to setting Lee's poems to music and givi ... 

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  • Reference
      GB 58 Add MS 88936/4/23
  • Alternative Id.
      (ark) ark:/81055/vdc_100000001245.0x00024b
  • Dates of Creation
      1947-1996, nd
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 folder

Scope and Content

Correspondence and papers relating to setting Lee's poems to music and giving recitals or making recordings of such settings. Correspondents include Samuel Barber, Lennox Berkeley, Johnny Coppin, Donald Swann. Includes: score of 'Girls' song' by Gerald N. Knight for 'Peasants' priest' (1947), score of 'Day of these days; a miniature cantata' by David Gow (1986); inlay for CD of 'Edge of day', poems by Lee set to music by Johnny Coppin (1988); scores of 'Two etudes for descant recorder & piano' by Kenneth Lang, score of setting for voice and piano of parts of Cider with Rosie by Cora Burt Harth [?]; score of 'The lark in the clear air' inscribed 'For Laurie Lee', Lee's copy of the printed score of Johannes Brahms' violin sonata, op. 78

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