St John‘s College Personal Collections

'Versus from Ogden Nash for medium voice & piano' (London and New York: Anglo-American Music Publishers, 1985)

Orr/B/B20
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1985

Comprises 'Pastoral', 'The seagull and the ea-gull'. From three songs for voice and string orchestra commissioned for the Vale of Glamorgan Festival 1978 with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council.

Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music

Typescript list of manuscript and printed scores given to St John's College Library by Prof. Orr, 7 Sep. 1976

Orr/A/A5/4
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Sep. 1976

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Typescript letter signed to A.G. Lee

Orr/A/A5/2
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13 Aug. 1984

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Requests that his musical manuscripts, deposited in St John's College Library in 1976, be returned to him, to be deposited in a more appropriate place. Would like the College to keep his manuscripts of 'They that put their trust in the Lord' and 'Come and let yourselves be built'.

Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music

'Toccata alla Marcia for the Organ' (London: Hinrichsen Edition, 1957)

Orr/B/B19
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1957

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Duration approx. five and a half minutes. Hinrichsen Edition No. 540a.

Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music

'Three preludes on Scottish Psalm tunes' (London and New York: Hinrichsen Edition, 1960)

Orr/B/B18
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1960

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Comprises 'Martyrs', 'Selma', 'Balfour'. Dedicated to the memory of Orr's father. Hinrichsen Edition No. 720b.

Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music

'Three lyric pieces' (Cambridge: Silverfen, 1996)

Orr/B/B17
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1996

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Comprises 'The mountain stream in spring', 'Summer in an alpine pasture', 'Autumn in the forest'. Commissioned by Roy Howat with funds provided by the Arts Council of England in 1994.

Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music

'Three Chinese songs: the translations by Arthur Waley' (s.l.: Anglo-American Music Publishers, 1984)

Orr/B/B16
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1984

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Comprises 'Tell me now', 'Plucking the rushes', 'The little cart'. Originally published by O.U.P. in 1947. Dedicated to Orr's wife.

Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music

'The Frogs of Aristophanes: the music composed by Walter Leigh for the performance of the play by members of Cambridge University in 1936, with an English version of the words of the choruses by Winton Dean' (O.U.P., 1937)

Orr/B/B2
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1937

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Sixteen copies.

'Symphony in one movement' (Glasgow and London: Bayley & Ferguson, 1965)

Orr/B/B15
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1965

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Duration c. 18 minutes.

Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music

'Spring cantata for mezzo soprano solo, chorus and orchestra (with piano obbligato)' (London: O.U.P., 1956)

Orr/B/B14
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1956

Part of Papers of Robin Orr

Words from Helen Waddell 'Medieval Latin Lyrics' and Thomas Nashe, music by Orr. Dedicated to Denis Fielder. First performed by the combined choirs of the Cambridge High Schools, 27 March 1957. Duration c. 25 minutes.

Orr, Robert Kemsley 'Robin' (1909-2006) composer and professor of music

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