SearchGetRecordEnglish Provinces: Liverpool: Adelphi Hotel (1850-1935)
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English Provinces: Liverpool: Adelphi Hotel (1850-1935)
Description
A collection of three programmes from the Adelphi Hotel, from 1850 to 1935.
The first programme is from a concert given on 24 April 1850. The concert was given under the auspices of the Liverpool Apollo Glee Club. The concert was entitled "Second Dress Concert", and consisted of part-songs, and vocal solos with chorus.
The next two programmes in the collection are from concerts which took place in the Ballroom of the hotel. The concerts were lieder recitals organised by the Liverpool Sunday Concert Club.
The first programme is from a concert given on 24 April 1850. The concert was given under the auspices of the Liverpool Apollo Glee Club. The concert was entitled "Second Dress Concert", and consisted of part-songs, and vocal solos with chorus.
The next two programmes in the collection are from concerts which took place in the Ballroom of the hotel. The concerts were lieder recitals organised by the Liverpool Sunday Concert Club.
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Date range of collection
1850 - 1935
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Royal College of Music: Centre for Performance History
Centre for Performance History
Prince Consort Road
London London SW7 2BS Bangladesh Open Map
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cph@rcm.ac.uk
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020 7 589 4340
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020 7 589 7740
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Mon-Fri by appointment
Collections Overview
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.
For details of other collections held at the same location: See the location record
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