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Léon Goossens: Foreign A-M (1920-1975)

Collection Summary

Collection Title

Léon Goossens: Foreign A-M (1920-1975)

Description

Concert programmes for concert given outside of the United Kingdom, with countries starting "A" to "M".

Australia.
Adelaide: Town hall (3/6/54 to 5/6/54: South Australian symphony orchestra; Tuesday 8/6, year unknown).
Bendigo: Town hall (Tuesday 1/6, year unknown).
Brisbane: City hall (23/4/54 and 24/4/54: Queensland symphony orchestra; 27/4/54: Queensland symphony orchestra).
Canberra: Albert hall (18/5/54).
Melbourne: Assembly hall (Friday 30/4, year unknown; Thursday 6/5, year unknown); Town hall (3/5/54 and 4/5/54, 8/5/54 and 10/5/54, 12/5/54 and 13/5/54: Victorian symphony orchestra).
Sydney: Conservatorium hall (29/5/54 (2 copies)); Town hall (17/7/47: Eugene Goossens' 1st concert in Sydney, sent to Leon by 1 3rd party; 15/5/54; 19/5/54 and 20/5/54, 22/5/54 and 24/5/54, 30/5/54: Sydney symphony orchestra)
Toowomba: City hall (26/4/54).
Unknown location: Capitol theatre [Perth?] (2/7/54 and 3/7/54: West australian symphony orchestra); no venue (no date); copies of "Canon: Australian journal of music" (January 1950; June 1952).
Austria.
Graz: Kammermusiksaal (3/10/46: Musikverein für Steiermark); Stephanien hall (18/6/46: Musikverein für Steiermark; Grazer Festwochen).
Innsbruck: British council (25/4/55 (3 copies)).
Linz: Rathausfestsaal (26/4/55).
Salzburg: Mozarteum, Grosser Saal (27/8/37 (2 copies): Streichorchester Boyd Neel; 21/7/55 to 31/8/55 (2 copies)); Die Österreichisch-Britische gesellschaft (23/4/55 (3 copies)).
Wien: Brahms-Saal (21/4/55: Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien); Grosser Musikvereins Saal (1/10/46 (2 copies)): Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien); Mozartsaal Konzerthaus (6/10/46).
Bosnia & Hercegovina.
Sarajevo: Muzicke škole (1/3/54).
Canada.
Edmonton: Social room jubilee auditorium (8/11/57 (2 copies)).
Montreal: Redpath hall, McGill university (1957 to 1958 season listings; programme for Goossens concert on 20/11/57: McGill chamber music society).
Ottowa: Glebe collegiate auditorium (25/11/57: Morning music club).
Saskatoon: Convocation house, [University of Saskathewam] (10/11/57).
Winnipeg: Concert hall, Civic auditorium (28/10/57 (2 copies): Women’s musical club).
Unknown locations: Khaki university of Canada (26/10/45)
Croatia.
Zagreb: Koncertna dvorana “Istra” (24/2/54 and 25/2/54: Državni simfonijski orkestar zagreb).
Czech republic.
Brno: Besední dum (25/5/46: Unie Ceských hudebních umelcu).
Prague: Rudolfinum (8/10/46); multiple venues, Prague spring festival (festival brochure 11/5/46 to 4/6/46; festival brochure 8/5/47 to 28/5/47).
Finland.
Helsinki?, unknown venue (29/11/60: Radion sinfonia-orkesteri).
France.
Cannes: Théatre du casino municipal (25/2/47).
Paris: Salle gaveau (27/2/47); Théatre national de l’opéra (16/3/37: L’orchestra philharmonique de Londres); multiple venues, Le guide du concert (dated 17/12/20;dated 17/6/21; dated 10/3/22).
Germany.
Dusseldorf: Die Brücke (British information centre) (2/10/49).
Hamburg: Eppendorfer Gemeindesaal (21/9/49: Hamburgische vereinigung von Freundeen der Kammermusik).
Munich: Bayerische staatsoper (8/9/55 (2 copies): Müncher festspiele); unknown venue, international music competition (1954); unknown venue, Internationaler musik Wettbewerb (5/9/57 to 17/9/57; 5/9/61 to 21/9/61; 19/9/72 to 6/10/72).
Oldenburg: Oldenburgisches Staattheater (22/9/49).
Hungary.
Budapest: multiple venues, concours international de musique de Budapest (competition brochure, 1970).
Iceland.
Unknown location, concert for radio broadcast? (4/4/74 (1 letter, 1 season brochure, 1 concert programme): Sinfóníuhljómsveit islands).
Iran.
Aberdan: unknown location (unknown dates, 2 different programmes, 1 has 2 further copies without “Aberdan” indicated).
Tehran: unknown location (11/4/55 (2 copies)
Unknown location: found with rest of Iranian material, no date, no indication of country.
Ireland (EIRE).
Cork: City hall (10/12/57 (1 flier, 1 programme: Cork orchestral society; Cork symphony orchestra); Cork municipal school of music (17/5/58 to 24/5/58: Cork orchestral society); University college Cork, Aula maxima (25/10/56: University art society).
Dublin: Gaiety theatre (run commencing 12/3/51); Royal Dublin society, members’ hall, Ball’s bridge (18/11/29 (Goossens concert) and 25/11/29; 15/11/43; 29/1/45 (Goossens concert) and 5/2/45; 26/1/48 (Goossens concert) and 2/2/48); unknown venue (date unknown).
Kilkenny: Vocation school (4/12/58: Kilkenny arts society).
Limerick: Cruises hotel (2/12/58).
Waterford: Municipal theatre (23/4/52: Music club); unknown venue (24/10/56: Waterford music club).
Wexford: multiple venues, Wexford festival (31/10/54 to 7/11/54).
Unknown place: Capitol theatre (26/1/47: Ceol-fuireann radio Eireann (=Radio Eireann orchestra)).
Malta.
Valletta: Manoel theatre (21/4/69; 10/1/75 (1 flier, 3 programmes)).

Arrangement:
Organised alphabetically by country, then alphabetically by place name, then alphabetically by venue name, then chronologically.

Format

Date range of collection

1920 - 1975

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Not Specific

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Location Details

Royal College of Music: Centre for Performance History

Centre for Performance History Prince Consort Road London London SW7 2BS Bangladesh

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http://www.rcm.ac.uk

cph@rcm.ac.uk

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Visiting Information

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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.

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