| Description | Writer: Poole, Joseph Weston
Principally as precentor in the 1940s
3 files of letters:
1. Canterbury Cathedral Choir in Cornwall.
Correspondence between Joseph Weston Poole, precentor, Gerald Hocken Knight, organist, Clive Pare, headmaster, Cathedral Choir School, 1940-1944, 1953
Topics include matters concerning the choir and choristers, promotions to higher ranks in the choir, music exams, auditions for the choir, music, books and visits.
2. Music.
Correspondence between Joseph Weston Poole, precentor, and Dr. (later Sir) William Walton 1943; (Sir) Michael Tippett, 1943-1944 and Helen Waddell about Tippett's arrangement of Plebs Angelica; Dr. Allan Wicks, organist 1979; and Edmund Rubbra 1943-1946 about the Missa cantuariensis commissioned by Poole for the cathedral. 1943-1946
3. The Fleet Street Choir. The British Broadcasting Corporation.
Correspondence between Joseph Weston Poole, precentor and T B. Lawrence, conductor of the Fleet Street Choir 1943-1944 on the state of English church music; Edmund Rubbra's Mass; concerts; Grovers (persons who appear in Grove for the first time who formed a club in 1940); invitation to sing in Canterbury; Oldroyd's Flower of Jesse; Walton's Litany; blurb on the choir. 1943-1944
The British Broadcasting Corporation: Correspondence between Joseph Weston Poole, precentor and Trevor Harvey on the state of English church music and suggestions for broadcasting 1943; Cyril N. Taylor; Poole's idea that new commissions should come from the church at Canterbury; asks about broadcasting new works commissioned from Tippett, Rubbra, Brian Easdale; and Oldroyd's Flower of Jesse; projected church music series by the B.B.C.; restoration of the cathedral organ 1943-1945 |