c.1988
Draft and broadcast script for a BBC Proms Interval Talk by Eric Crozier entitled 'Rimbaud - The Rebel Angel' in connection with a performance of Britten's Les illuminations, 10 August 1988.
Preparatory materials for it, or another programme on Verlaine and Rimbaud, which was to include musical examples from Debussy, Fauré, Hahn and Britten, include:
- handwritten and typescript texts and translations of correspondence from Rimbaud's mother
- notes by Crozier in manuscript and typescript
- translations of Verlaine poems, some labelled 'Simple English versions of the Verlaine songs I used to illustrate my talk on Verlaine and Rimbaud', and thus possibly by Eric Crozier
- texts and translations of Rimbaud poems, including the extracts used in Britten's Les Illuminations
- lists of musical illustrations
- Nancy Evans' photocopy of Hahn's setting of L'Heure Exquise
- photocopy of programme for a performance of Les Illuminations at the Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni, 11 November 1954, including extracts from Britten's letter 1939 letter to Sophie Wyss
- photocopy of pages from André Guyaux's 1980 article 'Illustrations et facsimiles des Illuminations', Rimbaud Vivant
- photocopy of Ennio Simeon's 1986 article 'Les Illuminations de Benjamin Britten', Parade Sauvage
- press cutting of W.S. Merwin's review of Petitfils' 1988 biography of Rimbaud
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