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Collection Summary
Collection Title
Miscellaneous Concerts (1856-1906)
Unique Identifier
7895.s.15
Description
Two volumes of programmes given in England between 1856 and 1906, the majority in the Masonic Hall, Birmingham. The second volume also contains a prospectus and programmes for the Tenth Triennial Handel Festival, held at the Crystal Palace in 1891.
Volume 1
Programmes and wordbooks for concerts given at the Masonic Hall in Birmingham between 1877 and 1894. Also, a prospectus/announcement for Two Grand Concerts given by Monsieur Jullien and his orchestra at the Town Hall, Birmingham on 1 and 31 January 1856.
The programmes are bound in a miscellaneous fashion but are grouped here according to patron/principal performer.
1.Miss Fanny Davies's Annual Concerts
26 February 1890, 18 February 1891, 22 February 1893 and 20 February 1894.
These were concerts of nineteenth-century Germanic repertory, given by Davies (piano), Joachim (violin) and Piatti (cello, 1893 and 1894 only). With the exception of that for 1890, all programmes carry handwritten annotations. Those for 1890, 1893 and 1894 include historical notes.
2. Mr and Madame Oscar Pollack’s Second, Third, Fourth and Seventh Annual Vocal and Instrumental Concerts
Programmes and wordbooks for two-part concerts of vocal and instrumental solos, with larger ensemble pieces, typically piano-duet arrangements, at the beginning and end of each half. All programmes provide detailed information regarding the vocal and instrumental soloists and all concerts featured Madame Oscar Pollack (vocal) and Mr Oscar Pollack (piano/conductor).
23 November 1887 (handbill only): Mrs Mason, Mr H. Partridge and Mr Gervas Cooper (vocal), Signorina Adelina Martinengo (violin), Mr J. Owen (cello) and Mr T. Troman and Signorina Flora Martinengo (piano). No full programme is given here but the following claim is made: ‘For the first time in Birmingham Liszt’s ‘Les Préludes’ from his ‘Poems Symphoniques’, for two pianos; and by Special desire the Grand Concertante Duo, for Two Pianos, on ‘Faust’ which was so well received last year’.
20 November 1888: Mr E. Levetus and Mr H Peacock (vocal), Herr Sück (violin), Mr A J. Priestley (cello), Mr T. E. Pountney (clarinet) and Miss Hiley, Miss Hargreave, Dr C Swinnerton Heap and Mr T Troman (piano).
21 November 1889: Mr Rechab Tandy and Mr Gervas Cooper (vocal), Mr F. Ward (violin), Mr Joseph Owen (cello) and Misses Jessie M. Hiley, Nellie Hargreave, Marian Hulley and Effie Short and Mr George Halford (piano).
26 January 1893: Mr Hamlyn Crimp and Mr A. J. B. Rankin (vocal), Miss Ethel Barns (violin), Mr Herbert Grice (cello), the Birmingham Flute Society (Messrs Langston, Huxley, Hughes and Cochrane) and Mr G. H. Manton (piano). This document carries some extensive handwritten annotations.
3. Miscellaneous concerts
20 February 1893: unbound handbill for Mr and Mrs Henschel Vocal Recital. This was a concert of vocal solos and duets, including a number of works by Henschel. The programme carries some handwritten annotations which provide corrections to the printed programme and offer additional historical information (largely in the form of dates) for the featured composers.
18 April 1885: programme for the third of Dr Swinnerton Heap’s Chamber Concerts, given by the string quartet of Messrs Carrodus, Speelman, Bernardt and Vieuxtemps, with Charles Swinnerton Heap (piano). The performance consisted of sonatas for piano, violin and cello, with a string quartet at the opening and a piano quartet at the close. The programme carries extensive historical notes.
24 June 1875: Master R. H. Rickard’s Pianoforte Recital, assisted by Emily Allely, Mr Monteith Randell and Dr. Swinnerton Heap. This was a two-part concert of predominantly nineteenth-century piano repertory.
25 October 1877: programme and wordbook for Mr C. J. Duchemin’s Popular Chamber Concert of Classical Music, with a string quartet of Messrs Carrodus, Val. Nicholson, Doyle and Edward Howell, Miss Emma Beasley (vocal) and Mr C. J. Duchemin (piano). This was a concert of vocal and instrumental solos, with two string quartets and a string quintet. The programme carries some very brief handwritten annotations and includes some historical notes.
28 May 1879: programme and wordbook for the last concert of the season given by Mr Alfred J. Sutton’s Choir. This was a concert of vocal and instrumental music performed by professional and amateur members of the choir, including a cantata by Sutton for female voices (‘Sage Advice’). The programme carries some brief historical notes and minor handwritten annotations.
20 February 1893: Wordbook for Mr and Mrs Henschel’s Vocal Recital, including very extensive handwritten annotations which comment, largely very favourably, on the nature and standard of the performance.
1 March 1894: programme for Miss Adelina de Lara’s Pianoforte Recital, with Edward Howell (cello) and Mr Arthur Oswald (vocal). This document carries extensive handwritten annotations, including an additional insert, which provide historical information about the works performed.
Monsieur Jullien’s Concerts
Prospectus/advertisement, with programmes, for two orchestral performances to be given on 1 and 31 January with Mademoiselle Gassier (soprano) and including Jullien’s new work, The Fall of Sebastopol Quadrille. Also, solo pieces by Herr Reichert (flute) and Mr Lazarus (clarinet).
Volume 2
Prospectus, with programmes and wordbooks for the Tenth Triennial Handel Festival, held at the Crystal Palace in June 1891. Also, programme from the Second Provincial Tour undertaken by Messrs Boosey’s London Ballad Concert Party in October/November 1892, and various miscellaneous concert programmes. These documents are bound chronologically but are listed below according to organisation.
1. Tenth Triennial Handel Festival
Prospectus, programmes and wordbooks for the following performances:
22 June: Messiah
24 June: Selections from various sacred and secular works
26 June: Israel in Egypt.
This brochure includes a complete list of both the choral and instrumental ensembles, with A. J. Eyre (organ), conducted by August Manns. It also lists the following vocal soloists: Madame Albani, Miss Macintyre, Madame Emily Squire and Madame Nordica, Miss Marian McKenzie and Madame Belle Cole, Mr Edward Lloyd and Mr Barton McGuckin, Mr Santley, Mr Bridson and Mr W. H. Brereton.
There is also a historical introduction (tracing the origins of the Handel Festivals back to the Commemoration Concerts of 1784) and a list of the committee and Stewards for the Festival. Programmes for individual concerts are also supplemented with historical notes.
2. London Ballad Concert Party
Programme and wordbook for a two-act concert of vocal and instrumental solos (with largely ensemble pieces at the beginning and end of each half), given by Mrs Mary Davies and Madame Clara Samuell, Madame Antoinette Sterling, Mr Durward Lely, Mr Plunket Greene and Mr Santley, with Senor Albeniz (piano), conducted by Sidney Naylor.
Miscellaneous Concerts
Programmes and wordbooks for four performances given at the Masonic Hall, Birmingham
21 November 1889 and 26 January 1893: Mr and Madame Oscar Pollack’s Fourth and Seventh Grand Concerts. These are reproductions of the material contained in volume 1.
19 March 1891: Mr and Madame Oscar Pollack’s Fifth Annual Grand Concert, with Madame Marie D’Alcourt, Madame Oscar Pollack, Mr Edward Arthur and Mr Edward Griffin (vocal), Herr Heinrich Sück (violin), Carl Gumprich (cello), Miss Louie Maidment and Mr Oscar Pollack (piano), accompanied by Mr Henry Taylor.
20 March 1906: Song Recital, given by Miss Clara Winwood (mezzo-contralto), with Miss Muriel Warwood (violin) and Mr Josef Holbrooke (piano), accompanied by Miss Beatrice Hewitt and Mr G. A. Russell.
Volume 1
Programmes and wordbooks for concerts given at the Masonic Hall in Birmingham between 1877 and 1894. Also, a prospectus/announcement for Two Grand Concerts given by Monsieur Jullien and his orchestra at the Town Hall, Birmingham on 1 and 31 January 1856.
The programmes are bound in a miscellaneous fashion but are grouped here according to patron/principal performer.
1.Miss Fanny Davies's Annual Concerts
26 February 1890, 18 February 1891, 22 February 1893 and 20 February 1894.
These were concerts of nineteenth-century Germanic repertory, given by Davies (piano), Joachim (violin) and Piatti (cello, 1893 and 1894 only). With the exception of that for 1890, all programmes carry handwritten annotations. Those for 1890, 1893 and 1894 include historical notes.
2. Mr and Madame Oscar Pollack’s Second, Third, Fourth and Seventh Annual Vocal and Instrumental Concerts
Programmes and wordbooks for two-part concerts of vocal and instrumental solos, with larger ensemble pieces, typically piano-duet arrangements, at the beginning and end of each half. All programmes provide detailed information regarding the vocal and instrumental soloists and all concerts featured Madame Oscar Pollack (vocal) and Mr Oscar Pollack (piano/conductor).
23 November 1887 (handbill only): Mrs Mason, Mr H. Partridge and Mr Gervas Cooper (vocal), Signorina Adelina Martinengo (violin), Mr J. Owen (cello) and Mr T. Troman and Signorina Flora Martinengo (piano). No full programme is given here but the following claim is made: ‘For the first time in Birmingham Liszt’s ‘Les Préludes’ from his ‘Poems Symphoniques’, for two pianos; and by Special desire the Grand Concertante Duo, for Two Pianos, on ‘Faust’ which was so well received last year’.
20 November 1888: Mr E. Levetus and Mr H Peacock (vocal), Herr Sück (violin), Mr A J. Priestley (cello), Mr T. E. Pountney (clarinet) and Miss Hiley, Miss Hargreave, Dr C Swinnerton Heap and Mr T Troman (piano).
21 November 1889: Mr Rechab Tandy and Mr Gervas Cooper (vocal), Mr F. Ward (violin), Mr Joseph Owen (cello) and Misses Jessie M. Hiley, Nellie Hargreave, Marian Hulley and Effie Short and Mr George Halford (piano).
26 January 1893: Mr Hamlyn Crimp and Mr A. J. B. Rankin (vocal), Miss Ethel Barns (violin), Mr Herbert Grice (cello), the Birmingham Flute Society (Messrs Langston, Huxley, Hughes and Cochrane) and Mr G. H. Manton (piano). This document carries some extensive handwritten annotations.
3. Miscellaneous concerts
20 February 1893: unbound handbill for Mr and Mrs Henschel Vocal Recital. This was a concert of vocal solos and duets, including a number of works by Henschel. The programme carries some handwritten annotations which provide corrections to the printed programme and offer additional historical information (largely in the form of dates) for the featured composers.
18 April 1885: programme for the third of Dr Swinnerton Heap’s Chamber Concerts, given by the string quartet of Messrs Carrodus, Speelman, Bernardt and Vieuxtemps, with Charles Swinnerton Heap (piano). The performance consisted of sonatas for piano, violin and cello, with a string quartet at the opening and a piano quartet at the close. The programme carries extensive historical notes.
24 June 1875: Master R. H. Rickard’s Pianoforte Recital, assisted by Emily Allely, Mr Monteith Randell and Dr. Swinnerton Heap. This was a two-part concert of predominantly nineteenth-century piano repertory.
25 October 1877: programme and wordbook for Mr C. J. Duchemin’s Popular Chamber Concert of Classical Music, with a string quartet of Messrs Carrodus, Val. Nicholson, Doyle and Edward Howell, Miss Emma Beasley (vocal) and Mr C. J. Duchemin (piano). This was a concert of vocal and instrumental solos, with two string quartets and a string quintet. The programme carries some very brief handwritten annotations and includes some historical notes.
28 May 1879: programme and wordbook for the last concert of the season given by Mr Alfred J. Sutton’s Choir. This was a concert of vocal and instrumental music performed by professional and amateur members of the choir, including a cantata by Sutton for female voices (‘Sage Advice’). The programme carries some brief historical notes and minor handwritten annotations.
20 February 1893: Wordbook for Mr and Mrs Henschel’s Vocal Recital, including very extensive handwritten annotations which comment, largely very favourably, on the nature and standard of the performance.
1 March 1894: programme for Miss Adelina de Lara’s Pianoforte Recital, with Edward Howell (cello) and Mr Arthur Oswald (vocal). This document carries extensive handwritten annotations, including an additional insert, which provide historical information about the works performed.
Monsieur Jullien’s Concerts
Prospectus/advertisement, with programmes, for two orchestral performances to be given on 1 and 31 January with Mademoiselle Gassier (soprano) and including Jullien’s new work, The Fall of Sebastopol Quadrille. Also, solo pieces by Herr Reichert (flute) and Mr Lazarus (clarinet).
Volume 2
Prospectus, with programmes and wordbooks for the Tenth Triennial Handel Festival, held at the Crystal Palace in June 1891. Also, programme from the Second Provincial Tour undertaken by Messrs Boosey’s London Ballad Concert Party in October/November 1892, and various miscellaneous concert programmes. These documents are bound chronologically but are listed below according to organisation.
1. Tenth Triennial Handel Festival
Prospectus, programmes and wordbooks for the following performances:
22 June: Messiah
24 June: Selections from various sacred and secular works
26 June: Israel in Egypt.
This brochure includes a complete list of both the choral and instrumental ensembles, with A. J. Eyre (organ), conducted by August Manns. It also lists the following vocal soloists: Madame Albani, Miss Macintyre, Madame Emily Squire and Madame Nordica, Miss Marian McKenzie and Madame Belle Cole, Mr Edward Lloyd and Mr Barton McGuckin, Mr Santley, Mr Bridson and Mr W. H. Brereton.
There is also a historical introduction (tracing the origins of the Handel Festivals back to the Commemoration Concerts of 1784) and a list of the committee and Stewards for the Festival. Programmes for individual concerts are also supplemented with historical notes.
2. London Ballad Concert Party
Programme and wordbook for a two-act concert of vocal and instrumental solos (with largely ensemble pieces at the beginning and end of each half), given by Mrs Mary Davies and Madame Clara Samuell, Madame Antoinette Sterling, Mr Durward Lely, Mr Plunket Greene and Mr Santley, with Senor Albeniz (piano), conducted by Sidney Naylor.
Miscellaneous Concerts
Programmes and wordbooks for four performances given at the Masonic Hall, Birmingham
21 November 1889 and 26 January 1893: Mr and Madame Oscar Pollack’s Fourth and Seventh Grand Concerts. These are reproductions of the material contained in volume 1.
19 March 1891: Mr and Madame Oscar Pollack’s Fifth Annual Grand Concert, with Madame Marie D’Alcourt, Madame Oscar Pollack, Mr Edward Arthur and Mr Edward Griffin (vocal), Herr Heinrich Sück (violin), Carl Gumprich (cello), Miss Louie Maidment and Mr Oscar Pollack (piano), accompanied by Mr Henry Taylor.
20 March 1906: Song Recital, given by Miss Clara Winwood (mezzo-contralto), with Miss Muriel Warwood (violin) and Mr Josef Holbrooke (piano), accompanied by Miss Beatrice Hewitt and Mr G. A. Russell.
Format
Date range of collection
1875 - 1894
Accumulation Dates
-
Suggested Audience
Not Specific
Associated People or Organisations
- Winwood, Clara -
- Warwood, Muriel -
- Triennial Handel Festival -
- Sutton, Alfred J. -
- Sterling, Antoinette -
- Squire, Emily -
- Santley, Charles -
- Samuell, Clara -
- Rickard, R. H. -
- Pollack, Oscar -
- Pollack, Madame Oscar -
- Piatti, Alfredo Carlo -
- Oswald, Arthur -
- Nordica, Madame -
- Naylor, Sidney -
- McKenzie, Marian -
- McGuckin, Barton -
- Manns, August -
- Macintyre, Margaret -
- London Ballad Concerts -
- Lloyd, Edward -
- Liszt, Franz -
- Lely, Durward -
- Jullien, Louis -
- Joachim, Joseph -
- Howell, Edward -
- Holbrooke, Josef -
- Henschel, Helen Henriette -
- Henschel, George (Isidor Georg) -
- Heap, Charles Swinnerton -
- Handel, George Frideric -
- Greene, Harry Plunkett -
- Eyre, Alfred J. -
- Duchemin, C. J. -
- de Lara, Adelina -
- Davies, Mary -
- Davies, Fanny -
- Cole, Belle (Madame) -
- Brereton, W. H. -
- Beasley, Emma -
- Albeniz, Isaac -
- Albani, Madame -
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