Wartime concert programmes

Twenty, single page, concert programmes. Two of the programmes have letters written on the reverse side. Also, a copy of 'National Gallery Concerts: 10th October 1939 - 10th October 1944' (1944), a short history of the concerts. Also, three miscellaneous programmes; two for concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and one comprising the words for Handel's ''Messiah' in relation to an unidentified performance.

For information about the concerts performed at the National Gallery during the Second World War, see the description given for NG56.

Programmes have been placed in date order.

Open

Donated to the National Gallery by Ms Cynthia Walton, who attended the concerts in the 1940s.

No accruals are expected.