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Thompson, Herbert190
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Gray, Alan2
Hadow, Sir William Henry2
Adam, Patrick William1
Airy, Anna1
Albani, Marie Louise Cecile Emma, Dame (Formerly Lajeunesse)1
Allen, Sir Hugh [The Chariman of the Committee of the Oxford Bach Choir]1
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Hight, George Ainslie to Thompson, Herbert

Hight, George Ainslie

10 Jan 1913

Enclosing a press-cutting from the "Musical Times" of his letter

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Sender: Adam, Patrick William

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 23 Oct 1919

Location: SC MS 361/6

Note: About a proposed painting.

Sender: Airy, Anna

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 Jun 1934

Location: SC MS 361/1

Note: About a portrait in pastel; her new studio at Playford.

Sender: Albani, Marie Louise Cecile Emma, Dame (formerly Lajeunesse)

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Sep 1901

Location: SC MS 361/366

Note: Encloses the words of a song from Spontini's "Vestale" for a

programme note. Addresses "Dear Sir".

Sender: Allen, Sir Hugh Percy

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 13 Nov 1936

Location: SC MS 361/2

Note: Requests Thompson to give a talk on 50 years of art and music at

the annual conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians

at Harrogate. 2 ff.

Sender: d'Aranyi, Jelly

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 4 Nov [1925]

Location: SC MS 361/375

Note: A proposed programme for a private concert. 3 ff. Dated from

Thompson's diary.

Sender: Armes, Philip

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 15 Apr 1891

Location: SC MS 361/367

Note: Delay in printing score of his cantata "St Barnabas"; sends

parts of it. Addressed "Dear Sir".

Sender: Atkins, Sir Ivor Algernon

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 3

Date(s): 19 Aug 1897 - 5 Jul 1941

Location: SC MS 361/3-5

Note: 1) Thanks for a letter of congratulation; reference to Emma

Albani, soprani; Three Choirs Festival at Hereford. 2) Thanks

for letter of congratulation upon his knighthood; balance sheets

of the Three Choirs Festival. 2 ff. 3) Thanks for the gift of

the "Mozart Verzeichnis" (i.e. Ludwig Kochel, "Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis samtliche Tonwerk Mozarts) to Worcester Cathedral Music Library.

Sender: Bacon, Sir Hickman Beckett

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 24 Nov 1939

Location: SC MS 361/7

Note: On Lincoln Art Gallery and pictures there from Leeds.

Sender: Bantock, Granville

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 6

Date(s): 5 Jun 1902 - 12 Mar 1927

Location: SC MS 361/11-14, 341, 368

Note: 1) Promises to send particulars and score of a composition;

Richard Strauss concert in London. 2) Thanks for criticism of

his "Omar Khayyam" and his "Gloucester work" (= ? "Christ in the

wilderness"). 3) Acknowledges a sketch; remarks on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 4) Explanation of his seranade for strings "From the far west". Signed under the pseudonym "George Washington". 5) About his "Dante and Beatrice", referred to by

him as "David and Bathsheba" (sic). Signed under the pseudonym

"Abominablech, the Hittite". 6) Thanks for criticism of his

"Song of songs".

Sender: Barry, Charles Ainslie

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Sep 1898

Location: SC MS 361/15

Note: On writing programme notes; Richard Wagner's "Huldingungsmarsch"; spelling of the word "Leitmotif".

Sender: Bax, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor

Recipient: Thompson, Herbert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 6 Aug 1923

Location: SC MS 361/16

Note: Letter enclosing a programme note by Bax on his symphonic poem

"Tintagel". 2 ff. Programme note attached.