John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, The Arts Council

Reference code

G/CC/1/2/1

Level

File

Title

John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, The Arts Council

Quantity & Format

14 documents (photocopied letters counted as 1)

Repository

Glyndebourne Archive

Scope and content

The File contains -
The Charter of Incorporation Granted by His Majesty The King to The Arts Council of Great Britain, Ninth day of August 1946

3 lectures for children about opera, handwritten by John Christie on the back of other letters and invoices

2 copies of notes written by John Christie, 1948, entitled ‘Music and Drama’

Notes written by John Christie, April 1949, entitled ‘New Theatres’

Notes written by John Christie, possibly in the Autumn of 1949, entitled ‘Glyndebourne Credentials, The Arts Council and Opera Units, Glyndebourne and the Arts Council, Glyndebourne’s Scheme, Some Facts’

The Arts Council of Great Britain, Opera and Ballet Panel, Report from the meeting 28 May 1948

Arts Council of Great Britain, Opera and Ballet Sub-committee, Ninth meeting, Wednesday 7 June 1950, Consultation with John Christie

Letter from John Christie to Oliver (no surname), 20 May 1953, discussing the Arts Council

John Christie's copy of a seating plan for an Arts Council event in May 1953

Handwritten note by John Christie annotated as ‘Arts Council Dinner’, undated

Notes concerning the Central Opera Trust, 1948. The ambition is to “aim at doing most of its opera in English but it will take some years before this is possible”.

Handwritten notes by John Christie entitled ‘The Opera Problem’, undated

Photocopy of a newspaper clipping from The Times (?), 29 January 1950, with a letter entitled ‘Glyndebourne’ by John Christie

Photocopies of letters and documents (from an external archive?) relating to Glyndebourne and the Arts Council in the late 1940s