Members of Peter T's Caius choir formed the late-1960s psychedelic band "The Gentle Power of Song", recording the marvellous "Constant Penelope" track
[...Read More]A RVW letter found amongst Peter Tranchell’s papers about ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’
[...Read More]A beer tin from Swiss Airlines ... Why is the boy so red in the face? Why is the dog's tongue out? Is the cow just an innocent bystander?
[...Read More]Programme for the Caius College Christmas Concert 1963, including an "Improvisation for piano duet" featuring John West & Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]Programme for the Caius College Music Society Summer Concert, 1962, with Peter T conducting the Caius Chorus in Handel's The Passion.
[...Read More]Elizabeth Jane Howard remembers Peter T (aka "Mephi").
[...Read More]Programme for the Caius College Lent Term Concert, 1964, with Peter T conducting Carissimi's Jonah.
[...Read More]A hand-made Christmas card sent by Peter Tranchell to friends and members of the choir in 1978
[...Read More]"Divertissement" for violin, viola, 'cello, trumpet, horn, bassoon and piano, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]We have received some accounts and reminiscences of the Northampton performance of Daisy Simpkins.
David White (d.2018 [...Read More]
From The Independent, Saturday 8 January 1994
[...Read More]Peter Andrew Tranchell was born on 14 July 1922 in Cuddalore, India
[...Read More]Memories of Peter T from A history of music at Eastbourne College from its foundation in 1867 until the move into the Birley Centre
[...Read More]The Ripon Lay Clerks found it hard to believe that the "ch" in Tranchell was a [k] and not a [tʃ], so we offered to print this on every score:
[...Read More]Chris Henshall (1972) remembers...
[...Read More]Address delivered by Raymond Leppard at the Memorial Service for Peter Tranchell, 12 February 1994
[...Read More]Another take on Peter T may be found in this poem by Paul Archer http://www.paularcher.net/poems/peter_tranchell.html
Peter Tranchell, the composer, was for 40 years a key figure in the musical world of Cambridge University.
By the [...Read More]Philip Radcliffe applauds the revival of PAT’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, conducted by Guy Woolfenden, and hopes that it will soon be as widely known as it deserves.
[...Read More]A review by David Epps of a concert performance of Peter Tranchell’s Decalogue in St John’s College Chapel by the C.U.M.S. chorus, brass and percussion; from The Cambridge Review, 3rd March 1956
[...Read More]Philip Radcliffe reviews Peter Tranchell's music for The Bacchae.
[...Read More][As was suggested last week in News and Notes, the first-night critics did less than justice to the music of Zuleika. In this article the Director of Music for the B.B.C.’s. Midland Region discusses it in greater detail.]
[...Read More]The most notable feature of this concert was the first performance of Peter Tranchell’s new Cantata, “This Sorry Scheme of [...Read More]
A review by Raymond Leppard of Peter Tranchell's opera The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Cambridge Review, Volume LXXIII, 13 October 1951
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