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The Alun Hoddinott Archive, File English
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BBC,

Correspondence, 1950-2001, with the BBC relating mainly to commissions and broadcasts of performances, hiring of material, and interviews and talks given by the composer.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Birthday celebrations,

Papers comprising replies to invitations to the composer’s fiftieth birthday celebration arranged by Oxford University Press at Ely House, London, September 1979; the guest list for a reception to celebrate his sixtieth birthday; cards and letters, 1999-2000, mainly congratulating him on the film produced to celebrate his 70th birthday, a few also relating to the first performance of the opera ‘Tower’; a letter April 1999, relating to a concert celebrating his seventieth birthday at St Davids Cathedral Festival, May 1999; and notices of a lecture, in his seventy-fifth year, at the Friends of Glyn Vivian Festival, 2004, entitled ‘75 years of music in Wales’. A signed agreement, December 1998, with Avanti Television Ltd for the documentary television programme celebrating his seventieth birthday, is included.

[Blodeuwedd?],

Pencil sketches of incidental music, possibly for a television drama entitled 'Blodeuwedd' by Saunders Lewis; and a photocopy of a corrected script of 'Blodeuwedd'.

Caneuon Indeg,

Ink score (photocopy) of Caneuon Indeg, comprising three Welsh nursery tunes arranged for baritone and harp. The score is annotated in pencil.

Cards from friends,

Postcards and some birthday and Christmas cards, [1949x2000], to Alun and Rhiannon Hoddinott from friends, composers and performers, containing mainly brief notes, some of a personal nature, and others relating to performances. They include cards from Ian Parrott, Kenneth Loveland, Tadaaki Otaka and Siân Phillips (greeting cards only).

Carol,

Ink piano score (undated and without text) of a carol for two voices and piano; and a pencil and ink sketch (dated 3. 12. 51, with Welsh words).

words: Llewelyn C. Huws.

Catalogues,

Printed catalogues and tables, [1953x2002], listing published and recorded works of Alun Hoddinott. The publishers include Oxford University Press, Paraclete Press, Cardiff University Press, Aureus, Alfred Lengnick & Co., the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music and Oriana Publications Ltd.

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