Moran Caplat Correspondence, General Correspondence, 1948

Reference code

G/CC/8/1/2

Level

File

Title

Moran Caplat Correspondence, General Correspondence, 1948

Date

1948

Quantity & Format

945 letters & documents

Repository

Glyndebourne Archive

Creator(s)

Caplat, Moran
Bing, Rudolf KBE (Sir)

Scope and content

The file also contains letters addressed to or from Rudolf Bing

Contains correspondence and documents to and from -
Folder 1
A
The Royal Albert Hall (02 letters)
The Arts Council (03 letters)
Arts Council Touring Date List (01 document)
Miss Ash (05 letters)

B
M.H.O.Baily (02 letters)
Bailey Bros & Swinfen Ltd (01 letter)

Sir Thomas Beecham (03 letters)
[Includes a letter from Lady Betty Beecham to John and Audrey Christie and a separate letter from W.E.Edwards to Hunt, Nicholson, Adams & Co]

Ethyl G.Belden (02 letters)
Rudolf Bing (08 letters)
Birmingham (02 letters)
Alfred Blumen (02 letters)
The British Council (04 letters)

The British Theatre Conference (02 letters, 02 documents)
[Documents = Copy of a Standard Contract; Copy of the Summary of Proceedings of the British Theatre Conference]

Alexander Brott (01 letter)
[The letter is addressed to Audrey Christie]

A.H.Brown (05 letters)
John and Edward Bumpus (03 letters)

C
Cadogan Hotel (01 letter)
Cambridge Theatre (01 letter)

April Cantelo (01 document)
[Document = Programme for ‘The Amphion Ensemble’, in which April Cantelo performed]

Catering Staff (01 letter)
Cleaners Ltd (03 letters)
Clerke & Cockeran (02 letters)
Nevill Coghill, Exeter College Oxford (02 letters)
[Re: A festival in Oxford]

Covent Garden, Royal Opera House (29 letters, 03 documents)
[Documents = Royal Opera House programmes for 29 September - 30 October & 1st November - 04 December 1948. Also includes a publicity leaflet for ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ at the Royal Opera House]

Cowdray Club (03 letters)
Peter Crossley-Holland, The Arts Enquiry (03 letters)

Folder 2
D
Dean & Dawson Ltd (21 letters)
Peter Diamand (02 letters)
S.C.Dorrill, New Theatre Oxford (03 letters)
Gabriel Dussurget (01 letter)

E
W.E.Edwards (23 letters)
[Includes sample letterheads for The Children’s Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival of Music & Drama, The Bath Assembly: A Festival of Arts for Young People]

Clifford Ellis, Bath Academy of Arts (01 letter, 01 document)
[Document = Invitation to an exhibition entitled ‘How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear’ at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham]

Ayrton Ellis (02 letters)
Equity (03 letters, 01 document)
[Included with a letter is a copy of ‘The Equity Standard Contract for Opera’. There is also a stand-alone copy of ‘Equity Letter, November 1948’]

Alberto Erede (02 letters)

Otto Erhardt (02 letters, 01 letter is written in German)
Moran Caplat writes, 02 June 1948, “Glyndebourne Opera is in a very precarious state, and whether or not it can go on is very doubtful.”

F
The Favil Press Ltd (12 letters)
Hilde Fiedler (02 letters)
Julius Finzi (06 letters)
Fleet Street Union (01 letter)
Ernest Frank (01 letter)

Folder 3
G
Harold Gerry (02 letters)
The Gramophone Company (06 letters)
Wilfrid Granvill (02 letters)
Grosvenor House (02 letters)

H
Ingrid Hageman (03 letters)
J.H.Halsall (02 letters)
Rolf Hoffman (02 letters)
Raimund von Hofmannsthal (01 letter)
Holland Festival (Peter Diamand) (09 letters)

I/J/K
Ibbs & Tillett (02 letters)
Illustrated (02 letters)

Horace Jackson & Sons (04 letters)

Marguerite Kozenn (02 letters, 01 document)
[Document = Newspaper clipping from Detroit Free Press, 07 April 1948]

L
Eleanor Lansing (02 letters)
[Eleanor Lansing’s letter is addressed to John Christie]

Lewes Press (05 letters)
Maurice Lindsay (01 letter)
Dr Jan van Lowen (02 letters)

London Musical Events (02 letters , 01 document)
[Document = Rate Card for advertising]

Folder 4
M
Anna Marinova (01 letter)
[The letter is addressed to John Christie]

The Duchess of Marlborough (01 letter)
Mecca Ltd (02 letters)
Musical America (02 letters)

N
National Car Parks (01 letter)

The National Youth Orchestra (05 letters, 02 documents)
[Documents = An information letter about the National Youth Orchestra; A printed publicity leaflet]

New Theatre (01 letter)
E.Scott Norman (49 letters)

Folder 5
O
Offers of Service from-

Dennis Astell, General Stage (02 letters)

Mavis Bacca, Violinist (02 letters)
[The letter is addressed to Mrs Christie]
Moran Caplat writes, 13 December 1948, “...since the war we have always engaged an existing orchestra for our Glyndebourne performances and not formed our own orchestra as we used to before the war.”

Ernest Bour, Conductor (01 letter)
Susanne Croner, Secretary (02 letters)
Edna Davis, Secretary (02 letters)
Joan Dickson, Orchestra (02 letters)
B.R.A. Dudley, Electrician (01 letter)
J.Elam, Theatrical Carpenter (03 letters)
Rosemary Ellis, Publicity Assistant (05 letters)
Denham V Ford, Concert Manager (02 letters)
Harold Grace, Musical Staff (01 letter)
R.G.Grey (02 letters)
V.Harford, Pianist (02 letters)
W.C.R. Honeywood, Electrician (05 letters)
Allan Jelland, Musical Staff (04 letters)
Miss M Keel, Oboe Player (02 letters)
Barbara Kellett, Orchestra (02 letters)
Vere Laurie, Assistant Stage Manager (08 letters)
H.Lichtenthal, Musical Staff (02 letters)
Alice Lidderdale, Designer and Scenic Artist (02 letters)
J.Malkin, Stage Manager (02 letters)
Jean Mercier, Production Staff (01 letter)
Vivien Meyrick-Jones, Secretary (02 letters)
Bernard Orna, General Assistant (02 letters)
Arthur Owen, Company Manager (02 letters)
V.Perrody, Catering Staff (02 letters)
Patrick Savill, Coach (01 letter)
Irene Segalla, Costume (5 letters)
Marjorie Scott Pitcher (2 letters)
Grace Sewell, Composer (1 letter)
Rowena Taylor, Catering (3 letters)
W.A.Tweddle, Orchestra (2 letters)
Lucy Vincent, Orchestra (2 letters)
Mrs Williams, Wine Waitress (2 letters)
L. Wittleshofer (2 letters)
Michael Yates (6 letters)
Ursula Young, Repetiteur and Conductor (2 letters)
Emanuel Yourovsky, Musical Staff (1 letter)
[contains some correspondence from 1947]

Folder 6
P
Reece Pemberton (02 letters)
Norman Penny (02 letters)
Victor Plasser (02 letters)
Press (03 letters)
Keith Prowse (04 letters, 01 document)
[Document = A seating plan for the Theatre Royal Haymarket]

Q
Anthony Quayle (01 letter)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing (02 letters)

R
Rapley & Co Ltd (03 letters + 01 document)
[Document = Copy of ‘Rapley’s Entertainments, Social and Sporting Calendar 1947’]

Edward Reeves (09 letters + 01 document)
[Re: Copyright of photographs of Glyndebourne taken by Reeves]
[Document = A black and white photograph of Glyndebourne from a magazine]

G Ricordi & Co (02 letters)
Ringmer Building Works (02 letters)
Margaret Ritchie (03 letters)

S
Sadler’s Wells Theatre (06 letters)

Peter Schidlof (01 document)
[Document = Publicity flyer for a performance including Peter Schidlof at the Wigmore Hall, 10 April 1948]

Smith Dalby Welch (01 letter)
Solicitors’ Law Stationery Society Ltd (01 letter)

Sussex Arts Forum (05 letters, 03 documents)
[Documents = 03 copies of an article entitled ‘Glyndebourne’ written by Moran Caplat. One copy is annotated with corrections by John Christie]

Sussex Illustrated (06 letters)

Folder 7
T
Tempo (06 letters)

The Theatrical Managers’ Association ( 22 letters, 10 documents)
[Documents = Copies of Agreements; Notices and a List of Members at 01 March 1948. Also contains some documents from 1949]

Theatre News Service (01 letter)
Lady Tottenham (01 letter)
Treasury (01 letter)
Typewriting Bureau (05 letters)

Folder 8
V
Zoe Vlachopoulos (03 letters)

W
Dr Frieder Weissmann (06 letters, 06 documents)
[Documents = Press clipping from Globe and Mail, 26 September 1947; Press clipping from The Evening Telegram, 20 June 1947; Press clipping from an unidentified publication; Poster for ‘Three Evenings of Grand Opera’ at the Mosque Theatre Newark, 1948. Also contains some documents from 1947]

Alix R Williamson (02 letters)
[01 letter is addressed to John Christie. Also contains a handwritten note from John Christie directing Rudolf Bing how to reply. Some documents are from 1947]

The Willow Studio (01 letter)
Michael Wood, The Royal Opera House (04 letters)
E.Woodward (01 letter)
Wyatt & Merriman (04 letters)

Also includes at the end of the letters a document entitled ‘Glyndebourne Opera at Edinburgh 1948’ and another document entitled ‘Glyndebourne Opera: Extracts from Press Reports’ (02 documents)

Content language

English
German