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Peter T is described as "the most erudite and versatile of the many distinguished scholars Clifton produced..."

Information and a photograph of a rehearsal of "Daisy Simpkins" in Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1962

About the Peter Tranchell Commemoration weekend: Saturday 24th September and Sunday 25th September 2005, including the programmes of music

Memories of Peter Tranchell' advice to new Footlights members, from "Going Up" by Frederic Raphael

Members of Peter T's Caius choir formed the late-1960s psychedelic band "The Gentle Power of Song", recording the marvellous "Constant Penelope" track

A RVW letter found amongst Peter Tranchell’s papers about ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’

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?

Programme for the Caius College Christmas Concert 1963, including an "Improvisation for piano duet" featuring John West & Peter Tranchell.

Programme for the Caius College Music Society Summer Concert, 1962, with Peter T conducting the Caius Chorus in Handel's The Passion.

Elizabeth Jane Howard remembers Peter T (aka "Mephi").

Programme for the Caius College Lent Term Concert, 1964, with Peter T conducting Carissimi's Jonah.

A hand-made Christmas card sent by Peter Tranchell to friends and members of the choir in 1978

"Divertissement" for violin, viola, 'cello, trumpet, horn, bassoon and piano, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell.

Information and a photograph from a performance of Daisy Simpkins in Northampton, 1961

From The Independent, Saturday 8 January 1994

Peter Andrew Tranchell was born on 14 July 1922 in Cuddalore, India

Memories of Peter T from A history of music at Eastbourne College from its foundation in 1867 until the move into the Birley Centre

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:

Peter T is dead

But his music still lives on

(I hear the cackle:-)

Vyvyan Chatterjie, by email, 29/01/2016 

Chris Henshall (1972) remembers...

Address delivered by Raymond Leppard at the Memorial Service for Peter Tranchell, 12 February 1994

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.

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.

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

Philip Radcliffe reviews Peter Tranchell's music for The Bacchae.

In this article the Director of Music for the B.B.C.’s. Midland Region discusses the music of Zuleika.

A review by Raymond Leppard of Peter Tranchell's opera The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Cambridge Review, Volume LXXIII, 13 October 1951