[Album of press cuttings relating to the career of …]

This material is held atUniversity of Glasgow Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Farmer 321
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1892-1961
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • Bound vol. 58p. 32 cm. Gold-tooled blue buckram binding

Scope and Content

Album of press cuttings relating to the career of Henry George Farmer. 1892-1961:
Partial contents:
Early music of Boy Farmer, pre-1895 King's Co. Chronicle
Music of Broadway Theatre, 1910-11, from The Stage
Tours 1911-12 with The Eternal Waltz
Sunday concerts with Glasgow Symphony Orchestra and Dr. Farmer's Sax Ban, 1920s
Lectures on music, 1930s, including Cramb Lectures on Arabic music and Mozart, 1934
BBC Broadcasts 'Music from the Scottish Past', Feb.-April 1936
Play 'The Silver Cross', Oct. 1936
Mozart Bi-centenary, Airdrie, June 1956
Letters from:
Olive Carlton Smyth, on the use of Chinese instruments in Glasgow School of Art show, 25th June
Re. Dr. I.K. Cosgrove, Garnethill Hebrew Congregation, April 1935

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