SearchGetRecordQueen\'s Hall (1901-09)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
Queen's Hall (1901-09)
Unique Identifier
11797.f.3.
Description
8 programmes and wordbooks relating to performances given at the Queen's Hall, Langham Place, between [1901] and 1909, bound chronologically.
[1 January 1901]
An undated programme for a two-part orchestral concert of music by Wagner and Elgar, given by Robert Newman's Queen's Hall Orchestra (led by Arthur W. Payne and conducted by Henry Wood), with Madame Blanche Marchesi (vocal). The programme begins with a complete list of the orchestral ensemble (with some handwritten annotations regarding instrumentation) and carries historical and analytical notes, with musical examples, by Rosa Newmarch.
NOTE: This document has no front cover, meaning that the concert cannot be dated precisely. The date suggested above is based on the possibility that the missing cover may be that bound as the final item in this volume. Such a claim is supported by the consistency of the performers cited in the two documents, the appropriateness of this date in relation to other documents bound here, and the common focus on instrumentation found in the annotations to the two documents (see below).
9 January 1904
Programme and wordbook for the fifth of the Chappell Ballad Concerts of the 1903-4 season, given under the direction of William Boosey. This was a two-part concert of vocal and instrumental solos, given by Miss Perceval Allen, Miss Muriel Foster, Miss Susan Strong, Miss E. Parkina and Madame Kirby Lunn, and Messrs Dalton Baker, Ben Davies, Denham Price and Evan Williams (vocal), with Ernst von Dohnányi (piano) and Miss Nadia Sylva (violin). Also, Mr E. R. Terry (organ) and Henry Bird (accompanist). This document includes a number of advertisements, including one for the sixth concert in this series, given on 23 January 1904.
7 January 1905
Programme for the first Chappell Ballad Concert of the year, given under the direction of William Boosey. This was a performance of vocal and instrumental solos featuring Miss Alice Nielsen and Madame Bertha Rossow, Madame Alice Gomez and Miss Carmen Hill, Mr Ben Davies and Mr Evan Williams, Mr Kennerley Rumford and Mr Dalton Baker and Mr Maurice Farkoa (vocal), with the Misses Sassard (vocal duo), Herr Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) and W. H. Squire (cello) accompanied by Hamilton Harty.
9 January 1905
Programme for the 32nd West End Ballad Concert. This programme of vocal and instrumental solos was given by Miss Phyllis Carr, Miss Ethel Maunder, Miss Georgina Stirling, Madame Edith Cooke, Mr Harold Cavesleigh and Mr John Fisher (vocal), with Mr A. C. Ambler, Madame Jeanne Laymet and Miss Vivian B. Stroud (piano), Herr Herman Koling (violin) and Mr A. H. Death ('Bone Solos'). The performance also included recitations and dramatic presentations by Miss Isabel E. C. Frost, Andrew Morton, Mr Louis Nickola, Miss Marjory Merryweather.
10 February 1906
Programme and wordbook for the seventh Chappell Ballad Concerts of the 1905-06 season, given under the direction of William Boosey. This was a performance of vocal and instrumental solos, given by Miss Helen Blain, Miss Carmen Hill, Miss Lillie Wormald, and Madame Suzanne Adams, Mr Dalton Baker, Mr H. E. McKeown, Mr Kennerley Rumford and Mr Evan Williams, and the Misses Sassard (vocal), with Mademoiselle Inez Jolivet (violin) and Herr Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), accompanied by Mr F. A. Sewell and Frederick Kiddle. The workbook for this performance carries a number of handwritten annotations regarding the programme order and the encores performed. There are also a number of advertisements, including one for the eighth concert, given on 24 February.
[February 1906]
Souvenir Programme for 'The Follies', held daily at 3pm, devised and arranged by H. G. Pélissier and performed with Dan Everard and Lewis Sydney and Miss Marjorie Napier, Gwennie Mars and Ethel Allandale. This includes details regarding the dramatic pieces performed, as well as the advice 'Don't bother about the Programme. Read the Advertisements'.
7 January 1909
Analytical programme for an Elgar Concert given by the Queen's Hall Orchestra, led by Maurice Sons and conducted by Edward Elgar and Henry J. Wood, with Madame Clara Butt (vocal). This document includes historical and analytical notes, with musical examples and the text for the vocal pieces, by Rosa Newmarch. It also carries photos of Wood, Elgar and Clara Butt, as well as numerous advertisements for other Queen's Hall concerts.
9 January 1909
Provisional and final programme and wordbook for sixth Chappell Ballad Concerts of the 1908-09 season, given under the direction of William Boosey. This was a performance of vocal and instrumental solos, including (by request) Liza Lehmann, ‘Mr Coggs' and Other Songs for Children, given by Miss Olive Hogan and Master Albert Hole and accompanied by the composer. The programme cites the following performers: Miss Agnes Nicholls and Miss Julia Caroli, Madame Kirkby Lunn, Miss Ethel Hook and Miss Carmen Hill, Mr Ben Davies and Mr John Bardsley, Mr Kennerley Rumford and Mr Frederick Ranalow, with Miss Margaret Cooper (vocal). Also, Lengyel (piano) and Johannes Wolff (violin), accompanied by Hamilton Harty and Mr Hubert Bath.
1 January 1901
Cover for a programme relating to a New Year's Day Afternoon Concert given by the Robert Newman Queen's Hall Orchestra, led by Arthur W. Payne with Percy Pitt (organ/accomp) and conducted by Henry Wood, with Madame Blanche Marchesi (vocal). As noted about, this fragment may belong with the first programme bound in this volume. It carries an extended handwritten note on the reverse which provides definitions of certain orchestral instruments.
Relationship terms not added: Lengyel (piano).
[1 January 1901]
An undated programme for a two-part orchestral concert of music by Wagner and Elgar, given by Robert Newman's Queen's Hall Orchestra (led by Arthur W. Payne and conducted by Henry Wood), with Madame Blanche Marchesi (vocal). The programme begins with a complete list of the orchestral ensemble (with some handwritten annotations regarding instrumentation) and carries historical and analytical notes, with musical examples, by Rosa Newmarch.
NOTE: This document has no front cover, meaning that the concert cannot be dated precisely. The date suggested above is based on the possibility that the missing cover may be that bound as the final item in this volume. Such a claim is supported by the consistency of the performers cited in the two documents, the appropriateness of this date in relation to other documents bound here, and the common focus on instrumentation found in the annotations to the two documents (see below).
9 January 1904
Programme and wordbook for the fifth of the Chappell Ballad Concerts of the 1903-4 season, given under the direction of William Boosey. This was a two-part concert of vocal and instrumental solos, given by Miss Perceval Allen, Miss Muriel Foster, Miss Susan Strong, Miss E. Parkina and Madame Kirby Lunn, and Messrs Dalton Baker, Ben Davies, Denham Price and Evan Williams (vocal), with Ernst von Dohnányi (piano) and Miss Nadia Sylva (violin). Also, Mr E. R. Terry (organ) and Henry Bird (accompanist). This document includes a number of advertisements, including one for the sixth concert in this series, given on 23 January 1904.
7 January 1905
Programme for the first Chappell Ballad Concert of the year, given under the direction of William Boosey. This was a performance of vocal and instrumental solos featuring Miss Alice Nielsen and Madame Bertha Rossow, Madame Alice Gomez and Miss Carmen Hill, Mr Ben Davies and Mr Evan Williams, Mr Kennerley Rumford and Mr Dalton Baker and Mr Maurice Farkoa (vocal), with the Misses Sassard (vocal duo), Herr Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) and W. H. Squire (cello) accompanied by Hamilton Harty.
9 January 1905
Programme for the 32nd West End Ballad Concert. This programme of vocal and instrumental solos was given by Miss Phyllis Carr, Miss Ethel Maunder, Miss Georgina Stirling, Madame Edith Cooke, Mr Harold Cavesleigh and Mr John Fisher (vocal), with Mr A. C. Ambler, Madame Jeanne Laymet and Miss Vivian B. Stroud (piano), Herr Herman Koling (violin) and Mr A. H. Death ('Bone Solos'). The performance also included recitations and dramatic presentations by Miss Isabel E. C. Frost, Andrew Morton, Mr Louis Nickola, Miss Marjory Merryweather.
10 February 1906
Programme and wordbook for the seventh Chappell Ballad Concerts of the 1905-06 season, given under the direction of William Boosey. This was a performance of vocal and instrumental solos, given by Miss Helen Blain, Miss Carmen Hill, Miss Lillie Wormald, and Madame Suzanne Adams, Mr Dalton Baker, Mr H. E. McKeown, Mr Kennerley Rumford and Mr Evan Williams, and the Misses Sassard (vocal), with Mademoiselle Inez Jolivet (violin) and Herr Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), accompanied by Mr F. A. Sewell and Frederick Kiddle. The workbook for this performance carries a number of handwritten annotations regarding the programme order and the encores performed. There are also a number of advertisements, including one for the eighth concert, given on 24 February.
[February 1906]
Souvenir Programme for 'The Follies', held daily at 3pm, devised and arranged by H. G. Pélissier and performed with Dan Everard and Lewis Sydney and Miss Marjorie Napier, Gwennie Mars and Ethel Allandale. This includes details regarding the dramatic pieces performed, as well as the advice 'Don't bother about the Programme. Read the Advertisements'.
7 January 1909
Analytical programme for an Elgar Concert given by the Queen's Hall Orchestra, led by Maurice Sons and conducted by Edward Elgar and Henry J. Wood, with Madame Clara Butt (vocal). This document includes historical and analytical notes, with musical examples and the text for the vocal pieces, by Rosa Newmarch. It also carries photos of Wood, Elgar and Clara Butt, as well as numerous advertisements for other Queen's Hall concerts.
9 January 1909
Provisional and final programme and wordbook for sixth Chappell Ballad Concerts of the 1908-09 season, given under the direction of William Boosey. This was a performance of vocal and instrumental solos, including (by request) Liza Lehmann, ‘Mr Coggs' and Other Songs for Children, given by Miss Olive Hogan and Master Albert Hole and accompanied by the composer. The programme cites the following performers: Miss Agnes Nicholls and Miss Julia Caroli, Madame Kirkby Lunn, Miss Ethel Hook and Miss Carmen Hill, Mr Ben Davies and Mr John Bardsley, Mr Kennerley Rumford and Mr Frederick Ranalow, with Miss Margaret Cooper (vocal). Also, Lengyel (piano) and Johannes Wolff (violin), accompanied by Hamilton Harty and Mr Hubert Bath.
1 January 1901
Cover for a programme relating to a New Year's Day Afternoon Concert given by the Robert Newman Queen's Hall Orchestra, led by Arthur W. Payne with Percy Pitt (organ/accomp) and conducted by Henry Wood, with Madame Blanche Marchesi (vocal). As noted about, this fragment may belong with the first programme bound in this volume. It carries an extended handwritten note on the reverse which provides definitions of certain orchestral instruments.
Relationship terms not added: Lengyel (piano).
Format
Date range of collection
1901 - 1909
Accumulation Dates
-
Suggested Audience
Not Specific
Associated People or Organisations
- Wormald, Lillie -
- Wood, Henry -
- Wolff, Johannes -
- Williams, Evan -
- Wagner, Richard -
- Terry, Edward R. -
- Sylva, Nadia -
- Stroud, Vivian B. -
- Strong, Susan -
- Stirling, Georgina -
- Squire, W.H. -
- Sewell, F. A. -
- Sassard, Misses -
- Rumford, Kennerley -
- Rossow, Bertha -
- Ranalow, F. B. -
- Queen's Hall Orchestra 1895 - 1915
- Price, Denham -
- Pitt, Percy -
- Payne, Arthur W. -
- Parkina, Elizabeth -
- Nielsen, Alice -
- Nicholls, Agnes -
- Newmarch, Rosa -
- Newman, Robert -
- McKeown, H. E. -
- Maunder, Ethel -
- Marchesi, Blanche -
- Lunn, Kirkby 1873 - 1930
- Lehmann, Liza -
- Laymet, Jeanne -
- Koling, Herman -
- Kiddle, Frederick B. -
- Jolivet, Inez -
- Hook, Ethel -
- Hole, Albert -
- Hogan, Olive -
- Hill, Carmen -
- Harty, Hamilton -
- Gomez, Alice -
- Foster, Muriel -
- Fisher, John -
- Farkoa, Maurice -
- Elgar, Edward -
- Dohnányi, Ernö -
- Death, A. H. -
- Davies, Ben 1858 - 1943
- Cooper, Margaret -
- Cooke, Edith -
- Chappell Ballad Concerts -
- Cavesleigh, Harold -
- Carr, Phyllis -
- Caroli, Julia -
- Butt, Clara -
- Boosey, William -
- Blain, Helen -
- Bird, Henry -
- Bath, Hubert -
- Bardsley, John -
- Baker, Dalton -
- Backhaus, Wilhelm -
- Ambler, A. C. -
- Allen, Perceval -
- Adams, Suzanne -
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The Library's collection of song and piano sheet music is one of the most comprehensive of its kind, providing a valuable insight into Victorian society and culture as well as the music itself.
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