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Collection Title
North Staffs. Musical Festival (1899)
Description
The prospectus and programmes with words for the North Staffordshire Triennial Musical Festival, held at Victoria Hall, Hanley, on 25 and 26 October 1899.
The prospectus includes list of the Executive Committee members and of the choral and orchestral ensembles, conducted by Dr Charles Swinnerton Heap. With the exception of that for 26 October (evening), these programmes include historical and analytical notes, with musical examples, by Joseph Bennett.
Madame Ella Russell, Miss Evangeline Florence, Miss Helen Jaxon, Miss Alice Lamb, Miss Alice Lakin, Mr Herbert Grover, Mr Charles Saunders and Mr Andrew Black (vocal) and Mr G. A. Clinton (clarinet).
Morning
26 October: S. Coleridge-Taylor, Scenes from Longfellow's 'Song of Hiawatha' (conducted by the composer, the second scene written especially for the Festival) and Miscellaneous Concert.
Evening
25 October: Schumann, Paradise and the Peri and Tchaikovsky, Pathetic Symphony.
26 October: Handel, Messiah.
The prospectus includes list of the Executive Committee members and of the choral and orchestral ensembles, conducted by Dr Charles Swinnerton Heap. With the exception of that for 26 October (evening), these programmes include historical and analytical notes, with musical examples, by Joseph Bennett.
Madame Ella Russell, Miss Evangeline Florence, Miss Helen Jaxon, Miss Alice Lamb, Miss Alice Lakin, Mr Herbert Grover, Mr Charles Saunders and Mr Andrew Black (vocal) and Mr G. A. Clinton (clarinet).
Morning
26 October: S. Coleridge-Taylor, Scenes from Longfellow's 'Song of Hiawatha' (conducted by the composer, the second scene written especially for the Festival) and Miscellaneous Concert.
Evening
25 October: Schumann, Paradise and the Peri and Tchaikovsky, Pathetic Symphony.
26 October: Handel, Messiah.
Format
Date range of collection
1899 - 1899
Accumulation Dates
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Suggested Audience
Not Specific
Associated People or Organisations
- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr -
- Schumann, Robert -
- Saunders, Charles -
- Russell, Ella -
- North Staffordshire Triennial Musical Festival -
- Lamb, Alice -
- Lakin, Alice -
- Jaxon, Helen -
- Heap, Charles Swinnerton -
- Handel, George Frideric -
- Grover, Herbert -
- Florence, Evangeline -
- Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel - see Taylor, Samuel Coleridge -
- Clinton, George A. -
- Black, Andrew -
- Bennett, Joseph -
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Location Details
Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square
Bloomsbury London WC1N 1AZ United Kingdom Open Map
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Collections Overview
The Coram Family Collection contains musical scores by Handel, a fair copy of the Messiah and the conducting score for the Foundling Hospital Anthem, written especially for the Thomas Coram Foundling Hospital. This score is annotated in Handel's own hand.
For details of other collections held at the same location: See the location record
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Accrual Status
closed
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