A collection of handbills and programmes for performances given at various London venues – principally Crystal Palace and St. James's Hall – and in Leeds and Leicester in 1886, held as the last of five bound volumes comprising the collection of the double bass player Charles Winterbottom, all five volumes of which are contained in a single box.

Also, prospectuses and programmes for the performances given by the Clapham Amateur Orchestral Society at Clapham Hall between 1882 and 1886 and an undated handbill (Tuesday 7 September, no year) for a Grand Complimentary Benefit to Miss Dews given at Falcon Cliff, Douglas, Isle of Man.

Many of these documents carry handwritten annotations, the majority of which serve to confirm Winterbottom's involvement in the performance.

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


1. London venues
Buckingham Palace
23 and 30 June 1886: conducted by W. G. Cusins (handbills).

Clapham Hall
23 November 1882 and 16 March and 24 May 1883; 30 November 1883 and 1 April 1884; 27 November 1884; and 25 March and 14 May 1886: Clapham Amateur Orchestral Society 8th season nos. 1, 3 and 4, 9th season nos. 1 and 3, 10th season no. 1 and 11th season nos. 3 and 4, conducted by Mr Ammon Winterbottom (with words and lists of the orchestral ensemble). Also, a prospectus for the 12th season of the Society (1886–87) and the programme (with words) for an Evening Concert given at Kensington Town Hall on 11 April 1883.

Crystal Palace
April-December 1886: handbills and programmes (some with words) for the daily activities, including information about the vocal/orchestral concerts given under the direction of August Manns. There are programmes for the concerts on 17 April and 30 November and fairly complete runs for July, August, October and December, with a number of undated items.

Dulwich College
13 April 1886: Handel, Messiah by Dulwich College Musical Society (with lists of the choral and orchestral ensembles).

Princes' Hall, Piccadilly
10 April 1886: Trinity College of London Students' Orchestra Concert (with a list of the orchestral ensemble and information about the College).

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
13-14 May 1886: Grand Miscellaneous Concert given as part of the Nicholson Testimonial (with words).

St. Andrew's Hall, Newman Street
18 December 1886: Strolling Players Amateur Orchestral Society (5th season) 1st Smoking Concert (with words and a list of the orchestral ensemble).

St. James's Hall
4 March, 1 and 15 April, 19 May and 2 June 1886: Philharmonic Society of London 74th season concert nos. 1 and 3-6, conducted by Arthur Sullivan (handbills).
12 March, 16 April, 7 May and 17 December 1886: Sacred Harmonic Society, conducted by W. H. Cummings (handbills).
May-June 1886: Rubinstein's Cycle of Seven Historical Recitals (single document).


2. Provincial venues
Leeds Town Hall
13-16 October 1886: Leeds Triennial Musical Festival conducted by Sir Arthur Sullivan (prospectus).

Leicester, Temperance Hall
13 May 1886: Mendelssohn, Elijah given as part of the Nicholson Testimonial.

1882 - 1886

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Not Specific

• Winterbottom, Charles -
• Winterbottom, Ammon -
• Sullivan, Arthur -
• Strolling Players Amateur Orchestral Society -
• Sacred Harmonic Society -
• Rubinstein, Anton -
• Philharmonic Society (see Royal Philharmonic Society) -
• Manns, August -
• Leeds Triennial Music Festival -
• Dulwich College -
• Dews, Miss -
• Cusins, William George -
• Cummings, William H -
• Crystal Palace -
• Clapham Amateur Orchestral Society -

• Buckingham Palace
• Clapham Hall
• Crystal Palace
• Dulwich College
• Falcon Cliff
• Prince´s Hall, Piccadilly
• Royal Opera House
• St. Andrew's Hall, London
• Temperance Hall, Leicester
• Town Hall, Kensington
• Town Hall, Leeds

• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899

• Brochures
• Annotations
• Word books
• Handbills
• List of orchestral players
• List of chorus members

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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.