Music/Dance
CHISSELL
(Joan Olive, b. 1919, Music Critic)
Autograph Letter Signed to Harold Chipp of the Cheltenham Gramophone Society,
saying she should be happy to come, My problem - as a music critic of The Times - is in trying to fix a date so far ahead... but Mondays are fortunately a little easier... as far as London concerts are concerned and suggesting 25th November, I believe money is always in short supply - in music clubs everywhere - so would 10 guineas fee, plus expenses, be acceptable?, with a P.S. I am working on a book about Chopin, 2 sides folio, 7D Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, N.W.8, 24th March
Item Date: 1963
Background
Joan Chissell trained as a pianist and taught at the R.C.M.. Among her books are lives of Schumann and Brahms, and of Chopin for younger readers, 1965.
two filing holes in blank margin
Stock No. 16897