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Charles Acton Collection: Box 56 (1958-64)
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Acton Gift 56
Description
Collection of 4 festival booklets from Tóstal Corcaí .
17/5/58-24/5/58: Concert Hall, Cork Municipal School of Music: Festival Recitals presented by Cork Tóstal Council in association with the Cork Orchestral Society. Contains information on all of the concerts in the festival.
20/5/64-24/5/64: Souvenir Programme: Eleventh International Choral Festival. Contains information on the festival competitions and the concert for the official opening.
7/5/61-21/5/61: Souvenir Programme: Festival of Cork (Tostal Corcaí). Contains brief listings of the recitals to be held as part of the festival and essays.
16/5/62-20/5/62: Souvenir Programme: Ninth International Choral Festival. Contains information on the festival competitions and the concert for the official opening. First performances of Henk Badings's 'Evocations', Sean O Riada's 'Ceathramhainti Eagamhla' and Rubbra's 'Tenebrae-Third Nocturne'. Accompanying are programme notes for the first performances and word-sheets for the competitions.
Date range
1958 - 1964
Associated People and Organisations
Acton, Charles -
Bading, Henk -
Cork Municipal School of Music -
Cork orchestral society -
Ó Riada, Séan -
Rubbra, Edmund -
Tóstal Corcaí -
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Concert Hall, Municipal School of Music Cork
Cork
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20th century - mid 1931-1970
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The National Library of Ireland has two collections consisting mainly of printed sheet music from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. These include much material from the mainsteam western classical music tradition, but also material relating to little known Irish composers. The names of the two collections are the Joly Music Collection and the Additional Music collection. In addition the Library has a small but significant collection of music manuscripts. The general printed collections include some Irish ballad, folk-music and popular song collections.
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