Correspondence with Stanley Saunders, programmes and reviews, 1981-1985, relating to Alun Hoddinott's visit to the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in 1982 and a performance of ‘The Bells of Paradise’. A few letters relating to an invitation for a further visit in October/November 1984 are included.
Saunders, Stanley.
Letters, 1995-2008, from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), regarding commissions and publications.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain)
Letters, 1987-1990, inviting the composer to participate in various ceremonies and to adjudicate at the Rhymney Valley Eisteddfod, 1990; also an invitation to adjudicate at the National Eisteddfod at Newport, 1988. A letter, December 1989, commissioning him to compose a work for the 1990 Eisteddfod, is included.
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru
Letters, contract and statement, 1987-1988, from Kaye Artist Management Ltd relating to the commissioning of 'Pullman Prelude'.
Correspondence (e-mails), 2004, relating to revised versions of the score and parts.
Letters, 1946-1967, comprising official letters and letters of congratulations relating to his career at University College, Cardiff, culminating in his promotion to the Chair of Music, 1967. Some examination papers of the Department of Music, 1959-1962, are included, together with a few college prospectuses, 1952-1963.
Letters, invitations, schedules, press cuttings, 2004-2005, relating to celebrations surrounding the opening of the Wales Millennium Centre, November 2004, during which the composer was honoured as one of five 'Welsh legends'.
A small group of family correspondence, 1933-1973, comprising mainly postcards, 1954-1973, most of which are from Rhiannon Hoddinott to her parents during family holidays. A letter, 3 May 1933, from R. W. Jones, 'Hebron', Ynysboeth, enclosing stanzas praising the young Alun, is included.
Prelude and fugue : : for string trio,
Two ink scores, one dated December 1948; together with ink instrumental parts (violin, viola and violoncello).
Address to melancholy : : for tenor and thirteen instruments,
Three ink full scores, one dated 3 May 1949, and the others dated 13 October 1949.
four poems by C. Day Lewis.
Pencil sketch of 'Song of destiny', [for mixed chorus (SATB) and double string orchestra].
[text: Walt Whitman].
Nocturne for clarinet, violin and piano,
Ink full score, dated 21 January 1952, with pencil amendments; ink and pencil violin part; and pencil sketch.
Concerto for harp and orchestra : : op. 11,
Bound ink full score (facsimile), dated September 1957, with Oxford University Press label and marked 'Composer's copy'; together with pencil sketches of the second and third movements.
Serenade for string orchestra : : op. 13,
Ink full score, marked 'B'; facsimile of ink full score, marked 'A'; Oxford University Press bound facsimile of ink full score; together with pencil sketches.
[Four Welsh dances] : : [op. 15],
Suo-gân : : a Welsh nursery song ('Cysga di, fy mhlentyn tlws'), freely arranged for orchestra,
Ink full score, dated September 1958; pencil sketch; and ink instrumental parts: flutes 1 and 2, oboes 1 and 2, clarinets 1 and 2 in A, bassoons 1 and 2, horns 1 and 2 in F, trumpets 1 and 2 in C, trombones 1 and 2, bass trombone, percussion, violin I (5), violin 2 (4), viola (2), 'cello (2), double-bass 1 and 2.
Jack Straw : : overture for orchestra, op. 35,
Bound ink full score (OUP facsimile), dated April 1964; and pencil sketch.
[Concerto grosso no. 1 for chamber orchestra] : : [op. 41],
Untitled pencil sketch, possibly Concerto grosso no. 1 for chamber orchestra, op. 41.