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Concert programmes from the files of Alan Lloyd Davies, 1945-11 - 1949-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/KCAR/8/3/59

Scope and Contents

Orders of service (many annotated) for the Advent Procession with Carols 1945-49, the Service of Lessons and Carols for Children 1947-48, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve 1945-50, and the Commemoration at Evensong of Former Members of the College and Choir School and for Those who Died on Active Service 1914-1919, no date.

Founder’s Day Dinner menus for 1946-49 (signed by attendees including Hugh Dalton, David Willcocks, Noel Annan and Provost Sheppard).

Programmes for King’s College Musical Society June concerts, 1947-49.

Order for a service on 10 November 1946.

Programme for a Cambridge University Musical Society concert in the Chapel including Benjamin Britten’s ‘A Boy was Born’, motets by Tallis, Kirbye and Byrd, and Rena Kyriakou playing Soler sonatas, March 1947.

Orders of memorial services for Joseph Barcroft, March 1947, and Stanley, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (Great St Mary), December 1947, and Herbert William Richmond, April 1948.

Programme for a Cambridge University Musical Society performance of the Bach B minor mass sung in Chapel, May 1947.

Term card for organ recitals, February-March 1948.

Order of service for ‘Evensong sung by the Choirs of the Ely Diocese affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music’, May 1948.

Order of service for ‘A Solemn Eucharist for the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa’, May 1948.

Programme of a recital given in the Eton College Chapel by the choirs of New College Oxford, Winchester College, King’s College Cambridge, and Eton College, May 1948.

Term card for Michaelmas 1948.

Signed menu for dinners, October 1948 and October 1949.

Programmes from a British Council sponsored Choir tour of Belgium, March 1949.

Programme for a Cambridge University Musical Society production of the St Matthew Passion by Bach (autographed), March 1949, and words for the Passion, no date.

Programmes for a production of King Arthur (with notes by EJ Dent; Donald Beves played Osmond, a magician) and a recital of sacred music, performed for the Cambridge Summer Festival of Music and Drama at the Arts Theatre, August 1949. The Choristers performed in King Arthur.





























Dates

  • Creation: 1945-11 - 1949-08

Conditions Governing Access

From the Sub-Fonds:

ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD MAY BE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS. ASK THE ARCHIVISTS FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Biographical / Historical

Alan T Lloyd Davies was a chorister from third term 1944 until Christmas 1949.

Extent

1 envelope(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Given by ATL Davies in August 2015.

Originator(s)

Davies, Alan Lloyd

Finding aid date

2015-08-03 14:24:05+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge Repository

Contact:
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