Letter from John Andrewes, Boosey & Hawkes Limited, to Christopher Mann, 27 August 1957 [manuscript]. 1957 August 27.

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Letter from John Andrewes, Boosey & Hawkes Limited, to Christopher Mann, 27 August 1957 [manuscript]. 1957 August 27.

Typewritten letter on Boosey & Hawkes letterhead (Regent Street, London), dictated to Andrewes' secretary G. Jenkins, and signed in his absence, to Mann, Park Lane, London. The letter is about a possible tour by Joyce to Russia, and whether Britten's Piano concerto had ever been played in the U.S.S.R.

1 letter (1 p.) ; 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7237927

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Andrewes, John, active 1615

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Britten, Benjamin

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Composed 1938. First performance at a Promenade Concert, by the British Broadcasting Co. Symphony Orchestra, London, Aug. 18, 1938, in Queen's Hall, Sir Henry J. Wood conductor, composer at the piano.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto no. 1 in D major for piano and orchestra / Benjamin Britten. [1928]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43291276 Composed 1939. First performance by the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, New...

Joyce, Eileen, 1908-1991

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Eileen Joyce (1908-1991) was a renowned Australian concert pianist, resident in England for most of her life. Born in Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia, Eileen and her family had moved to Boulder City on the Eastern Goldfields by 1909, where she commenced her piano education at her local convent school. With local support and encouragement by visiting pianists such as Wilhelm Backhaus and Percy Grainger, she completed her education in Perth in 1926, studied in Germany (1927-1930), and settled in Engla...

Mann, Christopher, 1903-1978.

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Jenkins, Gary

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Boosey & Hawkes (London, England)

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