Box 1
Container
Contains 17 Results:
General Items Relating To Donald Swann
Series — Box: 1
Identifier: Series 1
Dates:
Created: 1964-2009
Correspondence between Swann and Paul Abels, Charles Elton, Edmund Fuller (with Wall Street Journal review of Perelandra), Clyde S. Kilby, David Marsh, R.J. Mallows, and R.M.D. Odgers), 1969-1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents
9pp.
Dates:
Created: 1969-1989
Compositions Based on the Works of C.S. Lewis
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series 2
Dates:
Created: 1964-2009
Musical score of Perelandra: An Opera in Three Acts composed by Donald Swann (197 pages, plastic spiral bound) and the libretto by David Marsh
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents
12 pages
Dates:
Created: 1964-2009
Program from "The Lincoln Chorale & Donald Swann” performed at St. Swithin’s Church, Lincoln on December 2, 1981, 1981
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents
Performance included portions from The Road Goes Ever On and Perelandra. 2pp.
Dates:
Created: 1981
Program from “Donald Swann and Friends: A Programme of Compositions by Donald Swann” , 1993
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Performed at Bunyan Meeting Free Church, Mill Street, Bedford on May 5, 1993. 2pp.
Dates:
Created: 1993
Copy of eulogy for Donald Swann given by Lyn Smith, June 19, 1994, 1994
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents
5pp.
Dates:
Created: 1994
Obituaries for Donald Swann., 1994
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents
- anonymous. untitled. International Who’s Who in Music [1994]: 1085. - Obituaries Staff. “He could play the fool at the drop of a hat.” The Daily Telegraph (March 25, 1994): 9. - Warrack, John. “A music partner in rhyme.” The Guardian (March 25, 1994). - Ezard, John. “Swann song for a mud man.” [1994]. - Amis, John. “Donald Swann.” The Independent (March 25,...
Dates:
Created: 1994
Phemister, William. "Fantasy set to music: Donald Swann, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien." Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review 13 (1996):64-82, 1996
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents
20pp.
Dates:
Created: 1996
Musical score of Perelandra: An Opera in Three Acts composed by Donald Swann, Act 1
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8a
Identifier: Folder 8a
Scope and Contents
94 pages, plastic spiral bound
Dates:
Created: 1964-2009
Libretto of Perelandra: An Opera in Three Acts by David Marsh.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents
Also includes a photocopy of a letter from Donald Swann dated June 19, 1982 regarding the opera (2pp letter, 40pp libretto) 42pp.
Dates:
Created: 1964-2009
Internet pages, 1994-1998
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents
See sub-folders
Dates:
Created: 1994-1998
3 scripts of Perelandra: An Opera in Three Acts by David Marsh
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9a
Identifier: Folder 9a
Scope and Contents
58pp.
Dates:
Created: 1964-2009
"The Perelandra Papers" by Peter Flemington.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: Folder 10
Scope and Contents
Also includes a letter to Donald Swann from Flemington, January 16 (2pp letter, 17pp "Papers") 19pp.
Dates:
Created: 1964-2009
Packet of writings concerning Swann’s Perelandra, n.d.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: Folder 11
Scope and Contents
29 pp.The topics include:- Preface by Geoffrey Barlow.- “Perelandra.” Extract from Swann’s Way.- C.S. Lewis’s letter to David Marsh about the Perelandra libretto.- Some facts about the musical score of Perelandra.- Program for the Perelandra Chorale.- Some facts about Lucy and the Hunter...
Dates:
Created: n.d.
Publicity flyer for the world premiere of Perelandra, June 14, 1964 at the Guildhall, Cambridge, 1964
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: Folder 12
Scope and Contents
2pp.
Dates:
Created: 1964
Donald Swann Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Wade-A-50 and A-85
Abstract
The Donald Swann archive includes articles, reviews, publicity items and other materials related to Swann and his works.
Dates:
Created: 1964-2009
Found in:
Marion E. Wade Center
/
Donald Swann Collection