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This extract from one Peter Tranchell's CVs was included in the Programme for the 2005 Commemoration Weekend.
[...Read More]This extract from one Peter Tranchell's CVs was included in the Programme for the 2005 Commemoration Weekend.
[...Read More]Information about the Peter Tranchell Commemoration Weekend, 24 and 25 September 2005, including the programmes for the West Road Concert and the Mattins service
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell's grave is in Wolvercote cemetery (north Oxford), No 11 Section H3, next to James.
James was PAT's brother, who died aged 13 in an accident on 29th September 1938.
JAMES TRANCHELL
DIED Sept 29 1938. AGED 13.
HEAD OF THE DRAGON SCHOOL
Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing,
Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.
(from Robert Louis Stephenson's poem 'In memoriam F.A.S.').
PETER ANDREW
TRANCHELL
14.7.1922 - 14.9.1993
LOVING BROTHER OF
JAMES PHILLIPS
TRANCHELL
Peter T is described as "the most erudite and versatile of the many distinguished scholars Clifton produced..."
[...Read More]Information and a photograph of a rehearsal of "Daisy Simpkins" in Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1962
[...Read More]About the Peter Tranchell Commemoration weekend: Saturday 24th September and Sunday 25th September 2005, including the programmes of music
[...Read More]Memories of Peter Tranchell' advice to new Footlights members, from "Going Up" by Frederic Raphael
[...Read More]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]Information and a photograph from a performance of Daisy Simpkins in Northampton, 1961
[...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]Peter T is dead
But his music still lives on
(I hear the cackle:-)
Vyvyan Chatterjie, by email, 29/01/2016
[...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
[...Read More]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]In this article the Director of Music for the B.B.C.’s. Midland Region discusses the music of Zuleika.
[...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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