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MUSEUM COLLECTION

Acc. 3643

Ref: MUS/468

Reference: [GB 0212] MUS/468
Date(s): 1964-1965 approx.
Level: Fonds
Extent: 8 items
Scope and content: Material connected with members of the Music Department, UCW Aberystwyth, particularly Ian Parrott, Gregynog Professor of Music (1916-2012), and Mr Leonard James.

MUS/468/1-4. Four letters addressed to 'Mrs Ian Parrott' [Elizabeth Parrott], Edgecombe, Penglais Road, Aberystwyth.

MUS/468/1. From Mrs Peggy Challinor, Broncastell, Capel Bangor, with thanks for previous night's concert and reception, in envelope.
31 January 1964

MUS/468/2. From Dr Mary Williams of Hampstead, thanking her for a 'lovely drive' along the Promenade and enclosing an address for an assistant director of the Institute for Comparative Musical Studies, Berlin, in envelope.
7 February 1964

MUS/468/3. From 'Dr Mary', expressing thanks for kindness show during a visit, sent from Shrewsbury, taking advantage of an interval in her return railway journey.
26 February 1964

MUS/468/4. From 'Dr Mary', concerning an invitation to a concert and a reception at the opening of an exhibition at the National Library of Wales on behalf of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
8 March 1964

MUS/468/5. Poster, King's Hall, Aberystwyth, Monday 10 March at 7.30p.m., Department of Music, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, presents The Choral Society and Orchestra (conductor: Ian Parrott, solo violin: Leonard James), includes first performance of David Harries's Violin Concerto, dedicated to Leonard James.
1964

MUS/468/6-8. Photocopies

MUS/468/6. 'Common of Our Lady', from Songs of Syon (1910).

MUS/468/7. Programme, Dept. of Music concert, King's Hall, 16 March 1964, includes David Harries' Violin Concerto; Cambrian News 11 June 1965, 'Violinist's move to aid Colliery Fund', concerning a concert organised by Leonard James and others at U.C.W. Music Dept. in aid of the Cambrian Colliery disaster fund; Cambrian News, 8 July 1966, 'Promotion of Music', mentions James in connection with Harries' Violin Concerto.

MUS/468/8. From programme, 'Ann Ramsay's Evensong', Sydney, Australia, January 1992, includes new setting of a carol by Ian Parrott.