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Collection name Charles Acton Collection: Box 58 (1975-1977)
Unique identifier Acton Gift 58
Description Collection of individual programmes and festival booklets from the Wexford Opera Festival from 1975-1977.

Festival booklets:
10/77: 26th Opera Festival. Contains a timetable for all the events happening during the festival including concerts.
10/77: Wexford Festival Opera 77. Contains programmes for all of the concerts held during the festival, biographical notes on performers and programme notes on the works.

Programmes:
24/10/75: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Rowe Street, Wexford: Organ recital by Ruth Kuster. Includes biographical notes.
25/10/75 (plus duplicate): Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford: Mary O'Hara.
25/10/75: Theatre Royal: Sena Jurinac with David Harper. Part of the Wexford Festival 75. Includes biographical note on the performing group and programme notes. Word Book.
25/10/75-2/11/75: The Arts Centre: Beethoven's String Quartets played by the Alberni String Quartet. Part of the Wexford Festival 75.
23/10/77, 26/10/77, 30/10/77: Mr. Whites and Talbot Hotel: The Consort of St. Sepulchre. Part of the Wexford Festival Opera 1977. Includes biographical note on the performing group and programme notes.
22/10/77: Theatre Royal, Wexford: Kerstin Meyer accompanied by Jonathan Hinden. Part of the Wexford Festival Opera 1977.Includes biographical note on performer. Word book.
22/10/77, 28/10/77, 29/10/77: Mr. Whites: Beethoven's Sonatas for Violin and Piano performed by Therese Timoney and Gillian Smith. Part of the Wexford Festival Opera 1977. Includes biographical note on the performing group and programme notes.

Flyer: 25/10/[year unknown]-2/11/[year unknown]: Arts Centre Cormarket: The Beethoven Quartets played by the Alberni String Quartet.

Leaflets:
22/10/75-2/11/75 (plus duplicate): Wexford Festival Opera.
19/10/77-30/10/77: Wexford Festival Opera.

Festival Newsletter: 19/10/77-30/10/77. Contains essay by T.J. Walsh.

The collection also contains correspondence, tickets, press releases, press cuttings and photographs.
Date range 1975 - 1977
Associated People and Organisations Acton, Charles - Alberni String Quartet - Consort of St. Sepulchre - Harper, David - Hinden, Jonathan - Jurinac, Sena - Kuster, Ruth - Meyer, Kerstin - O'Hara, Mary - Smith, Gillian - Timoney, Thérèse - Walsh, T.J. - Wexford festival - Wexford Opera Festival -
Associated Places Church of the Immaculate Conception, Rowe Street, Wexford Mr. Whites, Wexford Talbot Hotel, Wexford Theatre Royal, Wexford Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford Wexford
Associated Times 20th century - late 1971-1999
Associated Content Photographs Press Cuttings Correspondence Tickets
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Collections Overview 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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