Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Archive

• HCMF/CP	Managing and presenting the HCMF Subfonds
  	1978-2007
  	Records relating to governance and to planning, staffing and administration of the festival. They include Board meeting minutes, correspondence of the artistic director, business plans and reports, records of contracts and negotiations with performers and composers, venue capacity and layout details and materials to support selection of performances including biographical and repertoire details for performers and composers. The records also include Richard Steinitz's analyses (1978-2007) of performances given at the festivals; for example premieres, and organised by composer, some performers and by type eg choirs and vocal groups. There is also a full list of works performed at festivals 1978-2005. HCMF/CP/2/6.

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• HCMF/EV	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival programmes Subfonds
  	1978-2016
  	currently missing 2012. [on loan to depositor?] Annual bundles contain published programme booklets and leaflets, and some concert/performance notes and programmes. For each festival there is a pocket-sized guide and a larger, often A4, programme book. These give all details for venues, dates and times, performances and some performer biographies and notes on music to be played. Where they survive, the bundles include notes (translations of non-English texts, composition notes, synopses and further details of a concert). These are mainly wordprocessed but include some professionally-produced programmes supplied by the performer. Boxes 4-5 contain Festival programmes in Braille and large print formats Box 4 1991 Braille, 1992 Large print, Braille, 1993 B, 1994 LP, B, 1996 LP, B, 1997 LP, B, 1999 LP, B, 2000 LP, B, Box 5 2001 LP, B, 2002 LP, 2003 LP, 2004, LP, CD with electronic versions of LP and B programmes, audio cassette version of programme, 2005 LP Also contains undated leaflets.

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• HCMF/FN	Finance Subfonds
  	1977-2005
  	This is an incomplete series of financial records. There are detailed accounting records for 2003-2004 which have been retained as an example of the financial activities of the festival. These are the only detailed records deposited. Records relating to fundraising; grants from public bodies eg Arts Council England, advertising sales and sponsorship. Annual accounts prepared for AGMs can be found at HCMF/CP/1/2/4

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• HCMF/MD	Publicity Subfonds
  	1979-2008
  	Press releases and reviews relating to the festival, photographs of festival performances and educational activities, details of awards presented to the festival

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• HCMF/MK	Marketing Subfonds
  	1978-2015
  	Records relating to marketing planning and review, ticket sales, audience research. Marketing materials including posters and a banner and audio-visual material. Papers relating to festival branding. Papers relating to the Friends of HCMF group.

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• HCMF/RE	AudioVisual recordings Subfonds
  	1980-2008
  	Recordings of music sorted by format and alphabetically by artist. Most of the DVD, CD and video formats have been professionally produced. Most of the audio casettes have been recorded from other formats. These recordings were probably submitted by artists as concert proposals were being considered. Many are still sealed.

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• HCMF/SC	Scores submitted to the festival as part of concert proposals Item
  	1964-2005
  	These scores have been submitted to the HCMF by artists and composers. It is not clear how complete a record of works performed between 1978 and 2005 this is or which works were actually performed. These scores have been sorted alphabetically into 2 sequences; smaller size scores (boxes 1-6), and larger size scores (boxes 7-10). There is 1 outsize score in box 11. Dates relate to composition, where given. This is a full list of scores present. Box 1 Scores by Artists: Noa Ain Joan of Arc Julian Anderson The Bird Sings with its Fingers Franco Donatoni Arpège Partitura Joanna Bailie Splice Simon Bainbridge Caliban Fragments and Aria Vykintas Baltakas Das Lied Julian Barbour X2 Lightstrung Sigils, Eigenmomenta Gerald Barry X8 O Lord How Rain, Carol, The Coming of Winter, God Save the Queen (2 copies), Six Marches for String Quartet (2 copies), The Ring, Wiener Blut, In the Asylum and two programme notes for The Ring and God save the Queen. Harrison Birtwistle Bow Down, Walter Boudreau X3 La Vie d’un héros (contains Boudreau’s CV and list of previous works), Berliner Momente IV, Tradiderunt Me In Manus Imporium. Denys Bouliane X14, Qualia sui, Du fouet et du plaisir, Paysage Qu, Manche haben Trompinetten, Das Affenlied, Le sexe des anges, Trois petits simiodrames, Concerto pour piano, Des caresses, Appels – Rappels, Jeux de Societe, Le cactus rieur et la demoiselle qui souffrait d’une soif insatiable,Concerto pour hautbois (entre chien et loup), Extraits d’Oeuvres Choisies et Notes de Programme. Eivind Buene Kaum Einen Hauch, Diana BurrellGold (1983-2004) Box 2 Scores by Artists: Martin Butler A Better Place Philip Cashian The Masque of the Red Death Richard Causton X3 Seven States of Rain, The Persistence of Memory, Notturno Stephen Chase Every Thought Should Recall the Debris of a Smile, An Exultation of Larks Edward Cowie Joe Cutler Szymborska Settings James Dillon X3 String Quartet, Residue (2 copies), Viriditas, Joe Duddell X3 Generation, Parallel Lines, Snowblind James Erber X7 Qfwfq, Strange Moments of Intimacy, Anem, Traces (B), Sprag, Melodia/armonia, Le Colonne d’Ercole. Gabriel Erkoreka X2 Krater, Dipolo Brian Ferneyhough X3 Opus Contra Naturam, Stelae for Failed Time, The Doctrine of Similarity Michael Finnissy Whitman. (1983-2005) Box 3 Scores by Artists: Dai Fujukura Reach Out (includes correspondence and programme notes) Daniel Giorgetti X4 Hebban Olla Vogala, Dialogue, Touche, Five. Philip Glass Low Symphony. Alexander Goehr Little Symphony. Michael Zev Gordon; On Memory. Deirdre Gribbin Celestial Pied Piper (2 copies) H.K. Gruber Gloria A Pig Tale (parts one and two) Georg Friedrich Haas Blumenstuck Andrew Hamilton X3 Above Under Now, Big Melody Small Orchestra, Toenail. Jonathan Harvey CHU Rolf Hind Das Unenthullte Simon Holt X2 Startled Grass, The Nightingale’s To Blame Horváth Balázs X4 Intermezzo, Prelude, From 3 to 10, Magnets II Bernard Hughes One and a Half Truths. Berni M Janssen X2 From N(ich)t 1, Ik(s)land[s]. Guus Janssen Violin Concerto. Zoltán Jeney Onidezetek. Mauricio Kagel X3 Mare Nostrum score, Mare Nostrum lyrics, Orchestrion Straat, (1964-2004) Box 4 Scores by Artists: David Knotts Nightwatching Ways of Looking at the Moon. Ádám Kondor X2 Joyance – For Saint Julius Hydophilos, SA. György Kurtág 14 Fragmente Jean Lesage X4 Les Representations Surannees, Memoire Equivoque, Fantasia Stravagante, Les Sensations Confuses (contains biographical notes as well). György Ligeti Magyar Etudok. Mats Lindström Requiem (includes a CD as well) Michel Longtin X3 Pohjatuuli, Attracteurs vers Xenakis, Lettre Postume de Conrad. Roger Marsh Espace. Steve Martland X2 Hard Times, American Invention. Harold Meltzer X2 Virginal, Exiles Anna Meredith Torque Thea Musgrave Rorate Coeli Alasdair Nicolson The Tinsel Storm Helmut Oehring Der Ort Ist Nicht Der Ort Jonathan Pitkin X2 Entente, Mysteries some Magician, a Craftsman, set up (includes correspondence and list of Pitkin’s works). Robin de Raaff Piano Concerto. Alexander Raskatov X3 Gebet (Kadddish), Praise, Xenia (1977-2003) Box 5 Scores by Artists: John Rea includes biography notes Objets Perdus, Homme Papillon, Over Time, Treppemusik Wolfgang Rihm includes a letter on front Sphäre nach Studie, Astralis (Uber die Linie III), Stilles Stuck, Frage, Sotto voce Kaija Saariaho Trois Rivieres Delta x 2, Tag des Jahrs x 3, Cinq Reflets, Quatre Instants, Caliban’s Dream, Orion, Miranda’s Lament James Saunders #(unassigned) Robert Saxton Caritas Salvatore Sciarrino Esercizio, Quartetto N. 7, Sei Quartetti Brevi Anatolijus Šenderovas Miriam’s Song – Miriam’s Silence Kunsu Shim luftrand (fur klaus und dirk), piano step Thomá Simaku Radius, Soliloquy, Soliloquy II Matthew Shlomowitz Deirdre’s Threat, Present Perfect Arlene Sierra Hand mit Ringen x 2 Howard Skempton Tendrils, Lento Ana Sokolovic includes biographical notes Blanc dominant, Nine Proverbs, ciaccona, Geometrie sentimentale Bent Sørensen The Hill of the Heartless Giant (1975-2004) Box 6 Scores by Artists: Johannes Maria Staud Configurations/Reflet x 2 Tazul Izan Tajuddin Torrent of Images – a Memoriam László Tihanyi Summer Music Jacob ter Veldhuis Tallahatchie Concerto Gergely Vajda Hypertext László Vidovszky ADY A Fekete Zongora ADY Black Piano , el (The Death in my Viola No 2) Ian Vine oro y sombra Kevin Volans Chakra Jennifer Walshe theme from Judith Weir Piano Concerto, Missa del Cid Guo Wenjing String Quartet n.3 Ian Wilson abyssal Karen Wimhurst Exposed Island Julia Wolfe In Times of Flood, my lips from speaking Matthew Wright (contains a brief resume at back) presents from an edited then x 2 Iannis Xenakis OMega SiHyun Yi remembering... (1993-2003) Score for IN THE MIST, no composer, three piano rolls for PIANOCLASM, no composer Box 7 Large scores by artists; Georges Aperghis Zwielicht Richard Ayres No. 33 (Valentine Tregashian Considers...) x 2 Simon Bainbridge Voiles Stephen Mark Barchan Another Exploding Matter Gerald Barry Enfilade, L’Agitation des Observateurs, Le Tremblement des Voyeurs Michael Berkeley Clarinet Concerto Eivind Buene Expose/Intermezzo/Symposium, Deaths and Entrances, Three Quartets Diana Burrell Wind Quartet Joe Cutler Awakenings (1990-2004) Box 8 Large scores by artists: Stephen Davismoon Waiting...and the moon?...Turns, (this has already) passed/passing, “...against the grain” Tan Dun Red Forecast Andrew Duncan Rhapsody for Tuba, Piano and Band Peter Eötvös Snatches of a Conversation, Atlantis, As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams, PSY Luca Francesconi Impulse II Alexander Goehr Sinfonia Op.42 Deirdre Gribbin Unity of Being Gerard Grisey Periodes H.K. Gruber Gloria – A Pigtale Full Score Part 1, Gloria – A Pigtale Full Score Part II (1974-2002) Box 9 Large scores by artists: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Turn Georg Friedrich Haas fremde welten, Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich ..., Natures mortes, in vain Andrew Hamilton more wrong things Bryn Harrison low time patterns Simon Holt The Nightingale’s to Blame Revised Bar Numbers Prologue, The Nightingale’s to Blame Revised Bar Numbers Scenes 1, 2 and 3 Bill Hopkins Two Pomes, sousstructures, Sensation John Hopkins White Winter, Black Spring Phillippe Hurel Figures Libres, Loops, Tombeau Alison Kay with letter attached Rainbow Serpent Jo Kondo Metaphonesis Harold Meltzer Rumors Tristan Murail Le Partage des Faux, Serendib (1967-2003) Box 10 Large Scores by artists: Olga Neuwirth Mooloomooloo, voluta/sospeso, ad auras in memoriam H, morphologsche Fragmente, Ondate II, settori Per Nørgård String Quartet No. 8 Night Descending,Turn (1973),Grooving, Mating Dance, Stadier with letter on the front, Reves en Pleine Lumiere, String Quartet No. 9, Maddening Dance, Moon Shadows Alexander Raskatov PutCheminPathWeg Rebecca Saunders Duo 3 Salvatore Sciarrino Trio N. 2, Polveri Laterali, Cinque Sonate Howard Skempton Tendrils Johannes Maria Staud gleichsam als ob Lasse Thoresen Lop, Lokk og Linjar Param Vir The Theatre of Magical Beings Kevin Volans with letter on front Piano Trio Karen Wimhurst Silver Messenger Ian Wilson Limena Paul Wilson Prometheus Matthew Wright to stitch holes in the fabric for dancing (1968-2004) Box 11 (Oversized score) Score by David Bedford, STORIES FROM THE DREAM TIME

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• HCMF/TL	Education Programme Subfonds
  	1976-2009
  	Records relating to education projects run alongside the festival with children and young people and the Young Composers' award for emerging artists.

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