Biographical material for Gustav Holst 1927-1934

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 1111 HOL/2/14/2/25
  • Dates of Creation
      1927-1990s
  • Physical Description
      1 file

Scope and Content

Notes; correspondence; programme for 1927; press cuttings; photocopy of planetary positions from the Cotswolds on 25 May 1919; typescript copy of tribute to Holst by Arthur Bliss entitled 'A lonely figure in music'; Script by Adeline Vaughan Williams of Ralph Vaughan Williams's broadcast talk during the BBC Memorial Concert in 1934.

Including;

Programme of concerts given in honour of Gustav Holst in Cheltenham Town Hall, 22 Mar 1927 with City of Birmingham Orchestra and GH and Adrian Boult conducting

Memo from Edward Elgar, 9 Mar 1927, concerning civic reception

Press cutting concerning the Gustav Holst Festival 22 Mar 1927 and Cirencester Hymn Festival 1926

Copies of letters from GH to Clare Mackail

Copies of correspondence with Mr Boosey of Boosey and Hawkes

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