Throughout Imogen’s childhood the Holst family lived a fairly peripatetic existence. There was no Holst family home but rather a series of rented houses and cottages in London and the Essex countryside. As soon as Imogen was old enough she was sent to boarding school and there were even occasions when she spent the holidays…
At the moment I am working on Imogen Holst’s personal administrative files and among the routine documents that you might find in any personal collection – the tax returns, the bank statements, the subscriptions to societies – are reports Imogen filed while working as a ‘Music Traveller’ during WWII. In 1940 Imogen was one of…
Imogen’s family, upbringing and education seem to have precluded any career other than that of a musician. As the daughter of Gustav Holst she was introduced to music at a young age, mixed with eminent musicians of the twentieth century, including ‘Uncle Ralph’ (Ralph Vaughan Williams), and was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School…
Hello all and welcome to the blog of the Holst Archive Project. The Britten-Pears Foundation has been awarded a grant by the National Cataloguing Grants Programme, and over the next 11 months or so we will be getting on with the exciting (and challenging) job of cataloguing the archives of the composer and musicologist Imogen…
