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From "Going Up" by Frederic Raphael

July 10. 2020
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Memories of Peter Tranchell' advice to new Footlights members, from "Going Up" by Frederic Raphael

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An extract from "Bright Tracks", by Richard Pike, 2017

September 15. 2019
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A passage about first meeting "Angelo", a flamboyant ballet trainer from Athens, during travels in Greece in 1959, on page 119 [...Read More]

The Gentle Power of Song

December 9. 2018
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Members of Peter T's Caius choir formed the late-1960s psychedelic band "The Gentle Power of Song", recording the marvellous "Constant Penelope" track

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A letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Peter Tranchell

June 11. 2018
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A RVW letter found amongst Peter Tranchell’s papers about ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’

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Is the cow just an innocent bystander?

June 6. 2017
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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?

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Gonville and Caius College Christmas Concert 2nd December 1963

May 27. 2017
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Programme for the Caius College Christmas Concert 1963, including an "Improvisation for piano duet" featuring John West & Peter Tranchell.

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Gonville and Caius College Lent Term Concert 11th March 1962

May 21. 2017
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Programme for the Caius College Music Society Summer Concert, 1962, with Peter T conducting the Caius Chorus in Handel's The Passion.

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From "Slipstream", the memoir of Elizabeth Jane Howard

May 1. 2017
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Elizabeth Jane Howard remembers Peter T (aka "Mephi").

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Gonville and Caius College Lent Term Concert 9th March 1964

March 4. 2017
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Programme for the Caius College Lent Term Concert, 1964, with Peter T conducting Carissimi's Jonah.

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A Christmas Card

January 6. 2017
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A hand-made Christmas card sent by Peter Tranchell to friends and members of the choir in 1978

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Divertissement, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell

December 13. 2016
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"Divertissement" for violin, viola, 'cello, trumpet, horn, bassoon and piano, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell.

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Daisy Simpkins performance in Northampton, 1961

December 7. 2016
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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

September 4. 2016
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From The Independent, Saturday 8 January 1994

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A biography of Peter Tranchell by John Gwinnell

May 28. 2016
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Peter Andrew Tranchell was born on 14 July 1922 in Cuddalore, India

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Memories from Eastbourne College

April 17. 2016
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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

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A voiceless velar stop

March 16. 2016
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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:

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Haiku for Peter

January 29. 2016
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Peter T is dead

But his music still lives on

(I hear the cackle:-)

Vyvyan Chatterjie, by email, 29/01/2016 

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When altos joined the choir - reminiscences from Chris Henshall

January 17. 2016
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Chris Henshall (1972) remembers...

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Memorial Service Address, Leppard, 12 February 1994

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

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Peter Tranchell, a poem by Paul Archer

October 1. 1993
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Another take on Peter T may be found in this poem by Paul Archer http://www.paularcher.net/poems/peter_tranchell.html

We are told (Fiona Stuart [...Read More]

Obituary of Peter Tranchell, Porter, The Independent, September 1993

September 20. 1993
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Peter Tranchell, the composer, was for 40 years a key figure in the musical world of Cambridge University.

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Obituary of Peter Tranchell, The Daily Telegraph, 18 September 1993

September 18. 1993
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The Daily Telegraph London, p19, September 18, 1993

Obituary: PETER TRANCHELL, the musician and teacher who has [...Read More]

THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, Radcliffe, The Cambridge Review, 7th February 1959

February 7. 1959
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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.

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Tranchell’s Decalogue, Epps, The Cambridge Review, 3rd March 1956

March 3. 1956
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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

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THE MUSIC FOR THE “BACCHAE”, Radcliffe, The Cambridge Review, 25th February 1956

February 25. 1956
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Philip Radcliffe reviews Peter Tranchell's music for The Bacchae.

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ZULEIKA—HER MUSIC, Lowe, The Cambridge Review, 13th November 1954

November 13. 1954
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[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.]

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HOMERTON COLLEGE MUSICAL SOCIETY [This Sorry Scheme of Things, February 13], Radcliffe, 21st February 1953

February 21. 1953
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The most notable feature of this concert was the first performance of Peter Tranchell’s new Cantata, “This Sorry Scheme of [...Read More]

THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, Leppard, The Cambridge Review, Volume LXXIII, 13 October 1951

October 13. 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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Tranchell's music, composed over a period of almost 60 years, covered many genres, from song cycles to psalms, and from organ sonatas to "detective cantatas". Find out more...

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Tranchell was a prolific writer of letters, reviews, verse etc. Find out more...

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