Press reviews, printed articles and publications

This material is held atBritten Pears Arts Archive

  • Reference
    • GB 1111 BKL/4
  • Dates of Creation
    • c1930-c2003
  • Physical Description
    • approx. 6 boxes

Scope and Content

Files of press reviews and printed articles, including writings about Lennox Berkeley and his work, reviews of performances, articles about other composers, associates and contemporaries, and published articles by Lennox. There is also a scrapbook of press cuttings about Admiral Sir Charles Lambe 1960-1961.

There are some periodicals and publications, including Returning to Vienna 1947, nine sketches by Stephen Spender signed to Lennox and Freda by the author; The Scythe, a quarterly edited by Ronald Duncan, summer no. 1945; Tempo, No. 13, Autumn 1949, Bartók number; Music and Letters, Vol. XXXI No.3, Jul 1950; The Chesterian, Vol. XXV, No. 165, Jan 1951; Adam international review, No. 234, 1953 and No. 250, 1955; Music and Musicians, Nov 1963; Composer, No. 42, Winter 1971-72; The Organ Club Golden Jubilee book, 1976; 250 years of the Three Choirs Festival, A commemoration in word and pictures, edited by Barry Still, 1977; The Royal Academy of Music Magazine, No. 233, autumn 1983; and Covent Garden by Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

Access Information

Uncatalogued - requires checking before production

The collection is uncatalogued; there are preliminary lists of accessions 7442, 8684 and 9379 (lists 115, 136 and 149).

All reference numbers are provisional and may change when the collection is catalogued.

This material is made available under the standard conditions of Britten Pears Arts. Readers will be required to produce proof of identity and to sign a Reader's Undertaking form.