A miscellaneous collection of programmes for performances given at various London venues and at a range of English and Scottish provincial venues in 1885, held as the fourth of five volumes comprising the collection of the double bass player Charles Winterbottom, all five volumes of which are contained within a single box.

Also, prospectuses and programmes for the concerts given by the Clapham Amateur Orchestral Society at the Clapham Hall between 1877 and 1885 and a programme (with words and a list of the orchestral ensemble) for the Midsummer Concert given by the Dulwich College Musical in 1886.

Programmes are listed here by venue, with the London venues followed by the provincial ones.

1. London venues
Albert Palace, Battersea Park
Saturday 20 June [no year]: Official Daily Programme and Arrangements.

Buckingham Palace
2 and 3 July 1885: conducted by Mr W. G. Cusins (handbills).

Clapham Town Hall
15 February 1877, 27 March and 29 May 1879, 29 January and 1 June 1880, 25 January, 29 March and 31 May 1881, 20 January, 24 March and 18 May 1882, 30 November 1883, 29 January 1885 and 19 November 1885: Clapham Amateur Orchestral Society 2nd season no. 2, 4th season nos. 3 and 4, 5th season nos. 2 and 4, 6th season nos. 2-4, 7th season nos. 2-4, 9th season no. 1, 10th season no. 2 and 11th season no. 1, conducted by Mr Ammon Winterbottom (with words and a list of the orchestral ensemble).

Crystal Palace
19, 22, 24 and 26 June 1885: Handel Bi-Centenary Festival, general rehearsal plus three concerts, conducted by August Manns (handbills).

Empire Theatre
[no date/every evening]: Grand Costume and Operatic Promenade Concert, conducted by Signor Arditti.

Royal Albert Hall
16 May 1885: Mr Ambrose Austin's Annual Concert, conducted by Mr W. G. Cusins (with words).
4 November 1885: Royal Albert Hall Choral Society 15th season no. 1, conducted by Mr Barnby (handbill).

St. James's Hall
26 February, 12 and 26 March, 22 April, and 6 and 20 May 1885: Philharmonic Society 73rd season no. 1-6, conducted by Sir Arthur Sullivan (handbills).
27 February, 27 March and 20 November 1885: Sacred Harmonic Society, conducted by Charles Hallé (February and March) and Mr W. H. Cummings (November) (handbills).
28 May 1885: Michael Watson’s Choir, conducted by Watson (handbill).

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
[undated]: Human Nature.


2. Provincial venues
Birmingham, Town Hall
25-28 August 1885: Birmingham Musical Festival (prospectus).

Brighton, The Dome
3 December 1885: Gounod, Mors et Vita (first performance in Brighton), conducted by Mr A. Randegger (with a list of the orchestral ensemble).

Dundee, Kinnaird Hall
10 December 1885: Dundee Amateur Choral Union 1st Concert (handbill, 2 copies).

Glasgow, St. Andrew's Hall
3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 January and 7 and 14 February 1885: Saturday Popular Concerts given by the Glasgow Choral Union, conducted by Mr Allan Macbeth (14 February only) and August Manns (with words and notes). Also, a programme with words and notes for a Grand Popular Ballad and Orchestral Concert given by the same on 1 January 1885.

1877 - 1886

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Not Specific

• Winterbottom, Charles -
• Winterbottom, Ammon -
• Watson, Michael -
• Sullivan, Arthur -
• Sacred Harmonic Society -
• Royal Albert Hall -
• Randegger, Alberto -
• Philharmonic Society (see Royal Philharmonic Society) -
• Manns, August -
• Macbeth, Allan -
• Handel, George Frideric -
• Hallé, Charles -
• Gounod, Charles -
• Glasgow Choral Union -
• Dundee Amateur Choral Union -
• Dulwich College -
• Cusins, William George -
• Cummings, William H -
• Clapham Amateur Orchestral Society -
• Birmingham Musical Festival -
• Barnby, Joseph -
• Austin, Ambrose -

• Albert Palace, Battersea Park
• Buckingham Palace
• Clapham Hall
• Crystal Palace
• Dome, Brighton
• Dulwich College
• Empire Theatre, Leicester Square
• Kinnaird Hall, Dundee
• Royal Albert Hall
• St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow
• Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
• Birmingham Coliseum (afterwards Gaiety)

• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899

• Brochures
• Word books
• Handbills
• List of orchestral players

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The Centre for Performance History was created in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Department of Portraits and the Museum of Instruments (see the separate entry for the Museum. The College has acquired portraits throughout its history since 1883 and the Centre posseses the most comprehensive collection of portraits of musicians in the UK, amounting to some 346 original portraits and 10,000 prints and photographs. In addition to the iconographical collections and their documentation, the department houses other categories of source material - most notably the largest collection of concert programmes in this country, comprising some 600,000 items dating from 1780 to the present day.