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BECU - The Sir Thomas Beecham Collection - Cuttings, Articles etc
1 - Newspaper cutting from a St.Helens newspaper regarding the Beecham Alimony case
2 - "Beecham case: Solicitors sued for negligence"
3 - Newspaper cutting concerning 'The Beecham Ghost' apparently seen in the St.Helens area some years previously
4 - Cutting from 'The Musical Times' giving a brief biography and critical appraisal of Mr Thomas Beecham
5 - Cutting from 'The Outlook' featuring a critical appraisal of Sir Thomas Beecham by ET Raymond
6 - "Death of Sir Thomas Beecham's right hand man"
7 - "Death of Mr Donald Baylis - Sir Thomas Beecham's right hand man"
8 - "Gramophone Celebrities: Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart."
9 - Editorial from the 'Gramophone' - Opera 'competition' to find best cast for Faust
10 - 'Eva Turner' by Norman Cameron
11 - Columbia Records advert from the 'Gramophone'
12 - "Hallé Society's New President - The Master Conductor brilliant Hallé season ends in Triumph"
13 - Newspaper cutting of obituary of Mme Conchita Supervia, Spanish mezzo-soprano singer
14 - "Opera's most prominent English Personality - Sir Thomas Beecham"
15 - "The Famous conductor who is artistic director at Covent Garden"
16 - "Sir Thomas Beecham thinks it will be a success"
17 - Article concerning Sir Thomas Beecham clipped from 'The Studio' Vol 112
18 - "Heard on Radio - Blast Tommy Beecham - BBC on pardonable annoyance"
19 - "Dresses at Covent Garden - opening of Coronation Season"
20 - "A Handful of Operas - Composers and their Subjects"
21 - "Premature applause at Covent Garden - Sir Thomas Beecham rebuke"
22 - "Mephisto's musings"
23 - Newspaper cutting from 'The Times' (?) concerning a proposed tour by the London Philharmonic during Autumn 1944 of Canada and USA
24 - "Entertainment - Beecham and Delius - Pen and Baton"
25 - "Maestro"
26 - "New compositions by Sir Thomas Beecham - London Philharmonic Orchestra invited to America"
27 - "The Conductor - Mind and Hand"
28 - Newspaper cutting from 'The Times' featuring an advert for a Harold Holt Sunday Concert
29 - "Round about Radio"
30 - Cutting from 'The Musical Times' containing Sir Thomas Beecham's comments on the music-loving public
31 - "Music's Tribute"
32 - "Beecham's Genius; A Prince of Musicians"
33 - "Tribute from Sibelius"
34 - "Strauss Greetings"
35 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' containing various letters paying tribute to Sir Thomas Beecham
36 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' containing a letter concerning Sir Thomas Beecham's championing of modern music at his birthday concert
37 - "Beecham and The Public Purse" by Ernest Newman
38 - "Portrait Gallery"
39 - "Young Septuagenarian"
40 - "Life tours with Sir Thomas - Beecham journeys doughtily over US"
41 - "Profile: Sir Thomas Beecham"
42 - "Sir Thomas sues over "Tales of Hoffman" music"
43 - "Leopold Stowkowski conducts in Nottingham with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra"
44 - "First time under concert conditions: Colston Hall Acoustic Test"
45 - "The Colston Hall - 'Unwise' Beecham attack"
46 - "Tales of Hoffmann" (film review)
47 - 'Sir Thomas Beecham' - 'A great English genius' - presentation after delay of 14 years"
48 - "Sir Thomas Beecham - 'badinage' with painter of his portrait"
49 - "Sir Thomas Beecham: A tribute on his 75th birthday" by Edward Junge
50 - Cutting from 'The Musical Times' containing advert for records by Sir Thomas Beecham on the Columbia label
51 - "Delius after twenty years"
52 - Editor's Notes from 'The Musical Times' containing piece about the 'star system' of concert promotion
53 - Cutting from 'The Musical Times' containing report of conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians
54 - Editor's Notes from 'The Musical Times' containing a critique of Sir Thomas Beecham's writing for 'The Sunday Times'
55 - Cutting from 'Gramophone' containing advert for a recording by Sir Thomas Beecham on the Columbia label
56 - "Sir Thomas Beecham quits Britain for a villa by the Mediterranean"
57 - Cutting from 'The Musical Times" reporting that Sir Thomas Beecham was made companion of honour in the Birthday Honours
58 - Cutting from 'Gramophone' reporting on the death of Lady Beecham
59 - Cutting from 'Sunday Times Magazine' section featuring a photograph of Sir Thomas Beecham conducting at rehearsal
60 - "Sir Thomas comes up for air - he couldn't find any in Buenos Aires!"
61 - "The Bronze and the Conductor in person"
62 - "Festival Hall - Frivolous and acoustically imperfect - Sir Thomas Beecham criticises rehearsal arrangements"
63 - "When Richter took the blame - A famous bassoonist recalls the celebrities of his youth"
64 - Advert for records by Sir Thomas Beecham on the HMV label printed on the cover of 'Gramophone' magazine
65 - 'A Quarterly Retrospect'
66 - Small article on "Wonderful old men" of London Season clipped from 'Gramophone'
67 - List of deleted records on the Philips label clipped from 'Gramophone'
68 - "Tchaikovsky with the magic Beecham touch - Sir Thomas records the 4th Symphony"
69 - Advert for records by Sir Thomas Beecham on the HMV label clipped from 'Gramophone'
70 - Correspondence - letter on Sir Thomas Beecham's Haydn (plus reply) from 'Gramophone'
71 - 'The Two Thomas Beecham's' by Ernest Newman
72 - Newspaper cutting from 'The Times' featuring an appreciation of Sir Thomas Beecham on his birthday, plus photograph
73 - "The Honoured Guest"
74 - "Beecham (he is 80) marries secretary of 27"
75 - "How I proposed - by Sir Thomas"
76 - "Preposterous, incongruous and even monstrous" - that's what Beecham calls his proposal - "I dazed Shirley's parents" says Sir Thomas"
77 - "A wave - and Sir Thomas flies off"
78 - "A complete listing of stereo records issued up to the beginning of September 1959"
79 - "Beecham sprains his wrist in Paris"
80 - Newspaper cutting from 'The Sunday Times' featuring photograph of Sir Thomas Beecham going over a Delius score at a rehearsal of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
81 - 'The Birth of a Baton'
82 - "Books and scores for Christmas"
83 - Advert for records by Sir Thomas Beecham on the HMV label clipped from 'Gramophone'
84 - 'The Greatest Carmen'
85 - Advert for records by Sir Thomas Beecham on the HMV label clipped from 'Gramophone'
86 - "Jussi Bjorling" by David Bicknel
87 - "Sir Thomas Beecham dies: Second cerebral thrombosis at his home in London"
88 - "Sir Thomas: Fiery yet a revolution in music"
89 - "Thrombosis at his home: Sir Thomas Beecham is dead"
90 - "Men will boast he flayed them" by Leslie Ayre
91 - "Beecham …. fiery genius of the baton … swashbuckling master of music"
92 - "Beecham dies at 81"
93 - "Beecham: The fiery genius of music with a zest for living"
94 - Musicians pays tribute to Beecham
95 - "Sir Thomas Beecham - conductor and connoisseur"
96 - "Obituary: Sir Thomas Beecham"
97 - Newspaper cutting featuring tribute to Sir Thomas Beecham
98 - "Death of Sir Thomas Beecham - Widow to continue orchestra's work"
99 - "Obituary: Sir Thomas Beecham - conductor, impresario and benefactor of music"
100 - "Music: by John Warrack. Beecham and Figaro"
101 - "Sir Thomas Beecham - Weaver of musical spells"
102 - "Beecham: Last of Britain's angry old men"
103 - "The Beecham Legacy" by Peter Heyworth
104 - "Beecham the Unique" by Desmond Shawe-Taylor
105 - "Sir Thomas Beecham"
106 - "Beecham - Aristocrat, Autocrat, Plutocrat" by Anthony Merryn
107 - Cutting from 'The New Statesman' featuring a personal tribute to Sir Thomas Beecham by the German conductor Otto Klemperer
108 - "The Measure of Beecham" by Irving Kolodin
109 - "Work to do and Lady Beecham stays on to see it's done" by Sydney Edwards
110 - "Beecham: An artist before all else. Individualist, wit, iconoclast, 'enfant terrible', he may well have done more for music in this country than any one man before"
111 - "Down Memory Lane" by Ivan March
112 - Cutting from 'Gramophone' featuring an obituary of Sir Thomas Beecham by Alec Robertson
113 - "In Memoriam - Sir Thomas Beecham"
114 - "Who wants masterpieces all the time?"
115 - "Sir Thomas Beecham" by David Bicknell (EMI manager)
116 - "Conductors and interpretations"
117 - "The Beecham recordings" by Jack Brymer
118 - Advert for records by Sir Thomas Beecham on the HMV label clipped from 'Gramophone'
119 - 'Beecham the Inimitable' by Lord Boothby
120 - "Tilt of the Goatee and Thrust of the Baton"
121 - "Speaking of Records"
122 - "Music through Artists eyes"
123 - "Obituary: Mr Fritz Kreisler: A violinist of rare talent"
124 - Cutting from 'Gramophone' featuring letter announcing formation of the Sir Thomas Beecham Society
125 - "Beecham conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"
126 - "Martinelli's marvellous youth"
127 - "Talking about sale rooms: Rembrandt in Venetian mood" by Frank Davis
128 - "The Memory Lingers on" by Neville Cardus
129 - "Beecham memorial" by Dominic Gill
130 - "Beecham memorial concert - Festival Hall"
131 - "Beecham remembered"
132 - "A Question of Magic" by Denis Vaughn
133 - Entry for 'Kapp, Edmond X' extracted from 'Who's Who'
134 - Magazine article about the conductor Denis Vaughn which includes references to Sir Thomas Beecham
135 - Cutting from 'Classical Music' featuring an anecdote about Sir Thomas Beecham regarding rehearsal of a Vaughn Williams symphony
136 - "Magnificent Maestros - The Rudest Man in Music"
137 - "A Friend of Music - Malcolm Arnold talks to Michael Greenhalgh"
138 - "Tom Beecham lives"
139 - Cutting from 'The Sunday Times' Colour Supplement featuring article on house built by Sir Thomas Beecham owned by the trade union ASLEF in 1977
140 - Newspaper cutting from 'The Daily Telegraph' featuring Sir Thomas Beecham anecdote about taxman seeking clues from John Fletcher, a British dramatist
141 - "Encore from Sir Thomas Beecham"
142 - "Fiddlers on the Spoof: Some of the hi-jinks some musicians get away with"
143 - "Turning in to Sir Tom"
144 - "London day-by-day - Beecham at his best"
145 - "A Symphony of Wit and Rudeness"
146 - "Side lines"
147 - "Authors pay tribute to town's most famous son"
148 - "The elusive maestros"
149 - "The lines they would rather not have heard"
150 - Cutting from 'The Bookseller' featuring photograph of Sir Thomas Beecham in connection with biography
151 - "Music marks Sir Thomas' centenary"
152 - "Sir Tom's spirit is reviewed"
153 - "One man band"
154 - "Ellen's fairy tale day"
155 - "Sir Tom's gift swirls on …"
156 - "Sir Tom - superwit - the pillman's son from St.Helens who gave a musical tonic to the entire world"
157 - "Beecham and Ballet"
158 - "Beecham in the recording studio - a centenary tribute to Sir Thomas Beecham" by Denis Vaughn
159 - 'Hi-fi News and Record Review' featuring comments on some of best recordings of Sir Thomas Beecham
160 - Cutting from 'Music and Musicians' featuring brief biography of Sir Thomas Beecham
161 - "Concert tribute to Sir Thomas"
162 - "Philharmonic concert opens Beecham week"
163 - "Town set to celebrate Sir Thomas' centenary - special art exhibition"
164 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' featuring announcement by Lady Beecham of events for centenary of Sir Thomas Beecham
165 - "Beecham takes top billing"
166 - "Epilogue to a hero's life" by Lyndon Jenkins
167 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Post' featuring an article by Erlend Clouston about Sir Thomas Beecham
168 - "Art Post - review of concert by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for Beecham centenary"
169 - "Donald Hanson marks the centenary of Sir Thomas Beecham - A Knight who crusaded for best in music"
170 - Newspaper cutting from the '(Liverpool) Daily Post' featuring an interview with Shirley; Lady Beecham
171 - "Artistic echo of the maestro"
172 - "Birthplace exhibition tribute to conductor"
173 - "Tribute is paid to Sir Thomas"
174 - "Beecham - complex and dominating"
175 - "The Sound of Beecham"
176 - "Tommy in his time" by Edward Greenfield
177 - "Beecham-the-Sorcerer" by John Lucas
178 - "A tonic this Beecham …"
179 - Cutting from 'Lancashire Life' including news of commemoration activities, reproduction of E.X. Kapp's drawing of Sir Thomas Beecham, plus photograph of former location of Beecham's grandfather's house in Wigan
180 - "Fennimore and Beecham"
181 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Financial Times' featuring reviews of the Beecham Centenary Concert at Covent Garden, "A Mingled Chime", Beecham's autobiography and "Sir Thomas Beecham" by Alan Jefferson
182 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' featuring a review of the Beecham Centenary Concert at Covent Garden
183 - "Beecham magic comes to life"
184 - "Beecham in Hanley"
185 - "Life in harmony with a music legend"
186 - "Sir Tom's impish ditties"
187 - "A home-town memorial to Sir Thomas"
188 - "Bar Lines - Crushed Bust"
189 - "Remembering Tommy" by Jack Brymer
190 - Cutting from 'Records and Recording' featuring review of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra concert at Ludwigshafen, Germany on eve of Sir Thomas Beecham's centenary
191 - Cutting from 'Records and Recording' featuring notice of concert for Beecham Centenary (includes photograph)
192 - "Beecham's tribute"
193 - "Choral" by Roger Harris
194 - "Sir Thomas's Ghost recalls the passion"
195 - "Things I Hear" by Robert Matthew Walker
196 - "The Beecham Magic"
197 - "Why not begin with Jubal?" by Denis Stevens
198 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' regarding Muriel Liddle presenting her sculpture of Sir Thomas Beecham to the Chairman of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London
199 - "Portraits of Beecham"
200 - Cutting from 'The Radio Times' featuring a television listing for actor Timothy West as "Beecham"
201 - "West works wonders with Beecham's Frills"
202 - "Rogue elephant" a "barrel of laughs"
203 - "Book and Record Review - Beecham remembered"
204 - "Peace on Earth and verses wild"
205 - "Beecham - The legend and the grandeur"
206 - "By Timothy, its Beecham … or is it?"
207 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' featuring photograph of actor Timothy West as Sir Thomas Beecham at the Apollo Theatre, London
208 - Newspaper cutting from 'The Times' featuring review of the play "Beecham" at the Apollo Theatre, London (includes photograph)
209 - "Late again"
210 - "Tussles in Seattle"
211 - "Sir Tom's hazy musical clues …Seeking the lost chord"
212 - "Beecham Recordings: A Fuller Portrait": Last Year's Centenary re-issues have provided a more balanced view of a long and varied concert
213 - "Beecham and the BBC Symphony Orchestra - a collaboration that never happened"
214 - "Tommy's back in town"
215 - "On becoming Beecham" by Timothy West
216 - "Maestros find elixir of love and life"
217 - "Beecham Orchestra manager sacked"
218 - 'Chronicle Arts' - Original Evening review of Choir for All Seasons at the Fold Billericay presenting "The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Beecham"
219 - Newspaper cutting from 'The Times' containing radio listing for "The Best of Beecham" on BBC World Service
220 - Newspaper cutting from the 'St.Helens Reporter' featuring a preview of "6 Merseyside musicians"
221 - "Little but the Beecham wit"
222 - "Music and Musicians: Back to Grove"
223 - "Classical Music: Beecham's anger moves a mountain"
224 - Cutting from 'Classical Music' featuring an interview with the English conductor Sir Charles Groves in which he makes reference to Sir Thomas Beecham
225 - Cutting from 'The Radio Times' featuring a listing for "A Touch of Genius" - a programme featuring Sir Thomas Beecham
226 - "The Beecham's of Compton Scorpion"
227 - "Orchestral Memoranda - 50 years of the BBC Symphony Orchestra"
228 - "First for music library - Sir Thomas beams down"
229 - Newspaper cutting from the 'St.Helens Star' featuring a photograph of Olive Chadwick, former music librarian with some items from the Beecham collection
230 - "Music in Bedford"
231 - "Obituary - Reginald Kell - eminent clarinettist in Britain and the US"
232 - "Festival which has everything"
233 - "A musical weekend in Bradford"
234 - "Keeping up the Baddeley Style"
235 - "Delius recalled"
236 - "Don't lose the 'Rings' "
237 - "Beecham Lollipop"
238 - "London Philharmonic, Solti, Haydn"
239 - "Gazette Letterbox - Handel's Messiah review"
240 - Cutting from 'The Radio Times' containing television listing for the film "Tales of Hoffman"
241 - "The man who is always rehearsing"
242 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' featuring an advertisement for auction of Fine Furniture by Lady Beecham
243 - Newspaper cutting from the 'St.Helens Reporter' featuring an article regarding auction of Sir Thomas Beecham's baton
244 - "The Mayoral Concert: Interview with Mr Thomas Beecham Junior: how he learnt music"
245 - "Covent Garden too big for National Opera" by Sir Thomas Beecham
246 - "Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)" by Sir Thomas Beecham
247 - "Salute to Ernest Newman"
248 - Photocopies of news cuttings (mainly from national newspapers) on Sir Thomas Beecham's musical career
249 - "Even the top class virtuosi have no time ---" by Neville Cardus
250 - "50 years of willow & music from the Cardus pen"
251 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' featuring an obituary of the Dutch lyric-dramatic soprano Gre Brouwenstijn
252 - Selection of photocopies of newspaper articles by or about Sir Thomas Beecham
253 - "Obituary of Jack Brymer. Doyen of clarinettists who was dragged from teaching by Beecham and was as happy with jazz as the baroque"
254 - Newspaper cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph' featuring an obituary of Leo Birnbaum, viola player and youngest founding member of Sir Thomas Beecham's London Philharmonic Orchestra
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