The Gentle Power of Song
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 letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Peter Tranchell
A RVW letter found amongst Peter Tranchell’s papers about ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’
[...Read More]Is the cow just an innocent bystander?
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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]Gonville and Caius College Christmas Concert 2nd December 1963
Programme for the Caius College Christmas Concert 1963, including an "Improvisation for piano duet" featuring John West & Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]Gonville and Caius College Lent Term Concert 11th March 1962
Programme for the Caius College Music Society Summer Concert, 1962, with Peter T conducting the Caius Chorus in Handel's The Passion.
[...Read More]From "Slipstream", the memoir of Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Elizabeth Jane Howard remembers Peter T (aka "Mephi").
[...Read More]Gonville and Caius College Lent Term Concert 9th March 1964
Programme for the Caius College Lent Term Concert, 1964, with Peter T conducting Carissimi's Jonah.
[...Read More]A Christmas Card
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A hand-made Christmas card sent by Peter Tranchell to friends and members of the choir in 1978
[...Read More]Divertissement, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell
"Divertissement" for violin, viola, 'cello, trumpet, horn, bassoon and piano, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]Daisy Simpkins performance in Northampton, 1961
We have received some accounts and reminiscences of the Northampton performance of Daisy Simpkins.
David White (d.2018 [...Read More]The Will, as recorded in The Independent
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From The Independent, Saturday 8 January 1994
[...Read More]A biography of Peter Tranchell by John Gwinnell
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Peter Andrew Tranchell was born on 14 July 1922 in Cuddalore, India
[...Read More]Memories from Eastbourne College
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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]A voiceless velar stop
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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]When altos joined the choir - reminiscences from Chris Henshall
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Chris Henshall (1972) remembers...
[...Read More]Memorial Service Address, Leppard, 12 February 1994
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Address delivered by Raymond Leppard at the Memorial Service for Peter Tranchell, 12 February 1994
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell, a poem by Paul Archer
Another take on Peter T may be found in this poem by Paul Archer http://www.paularcher.net/poems/peter_tranchell.html
Obituary of Peter Tranchell, Porter, The Independent, September 1993
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Peter Tranchell, the composer, was for 40 years a key figure in the musical world of Cambridge University.
By the [...Read More]Obituary of Peter Tranchell, The Daily Telegraph, 18 September 1993
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The Daily Telegraph London, p19, September 18, 1993
Obituary: PETER TRANCHELL, the musician and teacher who has [...Read More]
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THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, Radcliffe, The Cambridge Review, 7th February 1959
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]Tranchell’s Decalogue, Epps, The Cambridge Review, 3rd March 1956
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]THE MUSIC FOR THE “BACCHAE”, Radcliffe, The Cambridge Review, 25th February 1956
Philip Radcliffe reviews Peter Tranchell's music for The Bacchae.
[...Read More]ZULEIKA—HER MUSIC, Lowe, The Cambridge Review, 13th November 1954
[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]HOMERTON COLLEGE MUSICAL SOCIETY [This Sorry Scheme of Things, February 13], Radcliffe, 21st February 1953
The most notable feature of this concert was the first performance of Peter Tranchell’s new Cantata, “This Sorry Scheme of
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THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, Leppard, The Cambridge Review, Volume LXXIII, 13 October 1951
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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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