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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 N. Vert: 'A Veritable Napoleon of Managers'; 2 An American Venture and the Death of Vert: 1902â#x80;#x93;5; 3 Memoirs of Pedro Tillett; 4 The First Year: 1906; 5 Clara Butt's Australian Tour: 1907; 6 Artists and Auditionees: 1906â#x80;#x93;12; 7 Artists and Auditionees: 1912â#x80;#x93;14; 8 Concerts and Festivals: 1910â#x80;#x93;14; 9 Artists and Auditionees: 1914â#x80;#x93;18; 10 Agencies and Artists: 1918â#x80;#x93;23; 11 Artists and Auditionees: 1920â#x80;#x93;29; 12 Letters from Artists: 1920â#x80;#x93;29; 13 Letters from Conductors: 1930â#x80;#x93;39 |
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14 Letters from Pianists: 1930â#x80;#x93;3915 Letters from Instrumentalists, Singers and Composers: 1930â#x80;#x93;39; 16 Artists and Auditionees: 1930â#x80;#x93;39; 17 The Politics of Music: 1930â#x80;#x93;39; 18 A Conductor in 1933; 19 Concerts, Artists and Auditionees: 1940â#x80;#x93;49; 20 Agency Changes: 1940â#x80;#x93;49; 21 Kathleen Ferrier; 22 Artists and Agents: 1950â#x80;#x93;59; 23 The Winds of Change: 1960â#x80;#x93;69; 24 End of an Era: 1970â#x80;#x93;82; 25 The Final Decade: 1980â#x80;#x93;90; Appendices; 1 Artists' Brochures 1907â#x80;#x93;8, 1908â#x80;#x93;9; 2 Artists' Brochures 1911â#x80;#x93;12, 1914â#x80;#x93;15, 1915â#x80;#x93;16, 1919â#x80;#x93;20, Agency Bulletin 1913 |
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3 Artists' Brochures 1923â#x80;#x93;24 (for Chamber Music Societies), 1924â#x80;#x93;25, 1929â#x80;#x93;304 Artists' Brochures 1934â#x80;#x93;35, Chamber Music 1935â#x80;#x93;36, Artists' Brochures 1938â#x80;#x93;39; 5 Northern Concert Tours 1939â#x80;#x93;40, Chamber Music 1939â#x80;#x93;41, 1946â#x80;#x93;48, Artists' Brochures 1940â#x80;#x93;41, 1948â#x80;#x93;49; 6 LSO-CEMA 1940â#x80;#x93;44; 7 Promenade Concerts 1945, 1947; 8 Chamber Music 1949â#x80;#x93;51, Artists' Brochures 1951â#x80;#x93;52, Strok, Tillett and Holt 1957â#x80;#x93;58; 9 Artists' Brochures 1962â#x80;#x93;63, 1964â#x80;#x93;65, 1968â#x80;#x93;69; 10 Artists' Brochures 1973â#x80;#x93;74, 1977â#x80;#x93;78, 1982â#x80;#x93;83, 1989â#x80;#x93;90; 11 Contracts with Julius Isserlis 1938â#x80;#x93;62 |
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12 Emmie Tillett's Five-Year Diary 1965â#x80;#x93;6913 Letters from Edward Elgar 1899â#x80;#x93;1932; 14 Letters from Sergei Rachmaninov 1911â#x80;#x93;30; 15 Letters from Myra Hess 1922â#x80;#x93;49; 16 Correspondence with Kathleen Ferrier 1943â#x80;#x93;46; 17 Correspondence with Kathleen Ferrier 1947; 18 Correspondence with Kathleen Ferrier 1948â#x80;#x93;53; Select Bibliography; General Index |
| Summary |
"For the greater part of the twentieth century, Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched, and included such international stars as Clara Butt, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Sergei Rachmaninov, Andr?Segovia, Kathleen Ferrier, Myra Hess, Jacqueline du Pr?Clifford Curzon and Vladimir Ashkenazy, to name but a handful. From 1906, the success of the company was due to the dedication of its founders, Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett. After their deaths, the agency was run by the latter's wife, Emmie, who, dubbed the 'Duchess of Wigmore Street', became one of the most formidable yet respected women in British music. The history of this unique institution and its owners is told here for the first time, often through the fascinating letters that were exchanged between the artists themselves and the agency. It begins in the latter years of the 19th century with the concert and theatrical manager Narciso Vert, for whom both Ibbs and Tillett worked until his death in 1905. The story then becomes a history of musical life in twentieth-century Britain, illuminating aspects of the day-to-day management of concerts and festivals, the lives and livelihoods of professional musicians, as well as those who strove to join their ranks through audition or recommendation. The changing profile, and particularly the onset and development of personal management of artists represented by Ibbs and Tillett and their reception in the press, can be viewed as a barometer of musical taste. The demise of the agency in 1990 was indicative of just how much the world of British music had changed by the end of the century, but despite its loss to the profession, the legacy and influence of Ibbs and Tillett has remained a benchmark in today's highly competitive world of artist management and concert promotion, many of whose principal operators began"--Provided by publisher |
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Concert agents-England-Biography
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Ibbs and Tillett
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351126489 |
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1351126482 |
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