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Collection name Charles Acton Collection: Box 63 (1953)
Unique identifier Acton Gift 63
Description Miscellaneous programmes from 1953, arranged chronologically, which form part of Box 63 in the Charles Acton Collection.

RE Concerts:
11/1/53, 18/1/53, 25/1/83: Gaiety Theatre: 'The Proms' (Sunday Evening Promenade Concerts) with the Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra.
28/2/53: Theatre Royal: Fifth International Celebrity Concert presented by the Adelaide Hospital Campaign: The Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra.
8/3/[53], 15/3/[53], 22/3/[53]: Gaiety Theatre: The Spring Proms with the Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra.
18/10/53-22/11/53: Gaiety Theatre: The Autumn Proms with the Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra.

RDS Concerts:
12/1/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: 'Pianoforte Recitals' Orloff [reverse side] 19/1/53 Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: 'Violin and piano recitals' Jaroslav Vanecek & Rhona Marshall.
19/1/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: 'Violin and piano recitals' Jaroslav Vanecek & Rhona Marshall [reverse side] 26/1/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: 'Song Recitals' Richard Lewis.
2/2/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: 'Pianoforte Recitals' Denis Matthews [reverse side] 9/2/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: Robert Masters Pianoforte Quartet.
9/2/53 (plus duplicate): Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: Loveridge-Martin-Hooton Trio [reverse side] 16/2/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: 'Cello and Piano Recitals' Antonio Janigro and Ernest Lush.
9/11/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: New London String Quartet [reverse side] 16/11/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: 'Pianoforte Recitals' Bela Siki.
30/11/53 (plus duplicate): Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: Robert Masters Pianoforte Quartet [reverse side] 7/12/53: Royal Dublin Society Members' Hall, Ball's Bridge: Zara Nelsova and Ernest Lush.

21/1/53: Irish Musical Arts Society [committee delineated] presented the Prieur Instrumental Ensemble.

RIAM Concerts:
14/2/53: [RIAM]: Students' Musical Union.
28/2/[53]: [RIAM]: Students' Musical Union.
14/3/[53]: [RIAM]: Student's Musical Union.
12/4/53-18/4/53: Royal Irish Academy of Music: Programme for Academy Tostal Week.
25/6/53: Metropolitan Hall: Orchestral concert by students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
10/10/53: [RIAM]: Students' Musical Union.
16/12/53: Royal Irish Academy of Music: Student's Musical Union [committee members delineated] 'At Home'.

Dublin Orchestral Players concerts:
11/3/53: Metropolitan Hall: Dublin Orchestral Players 'Symphony Concert'.
26/4/53: The Hibernain Cinema, Mullingar: Presented by An Tostal: Dublin Orchestral Players.
18/6/53: Abbey Lecture Hall: Dublin Orchestral Players 'Symphony Concert'
7/11/53: City Hall, Cork: Cork Orchestral Society presented the Dublin Orchestral Players.
3/12/53: Abbey Lecture Theatre: Dublin Orchestral Players 'Symphony Concert'.

Our Lady's Choral Society concerts:
11/4/53: Capitol Theatre: Our Lady's Choral Society.
25/4/53: Theatre Royal: Our Lady's Choral Society.

Irish Musical Arts Society concerts:
15/4/53: Irish Musical Arts Society and An Tostal presented a concert by Charles Lynch, Francois d'Albert and Leopold Laurent.
4/5/53: Benthien String Quartet presented by The Irish Musical Arts Society with the Irish-German Society.

Miscellaneous programmes:
21/6/53, 29/6/53: Church of S. Bartholomew, Clyde Road, Dublin: Midsummer Festival 1953, Annual Gift Days for Organ & Choir Fund.
30/9/[53]: Archbishop Byrne Hall: Recital by Patricia O'Keefe and Seán Lynch.
18/10/53: Aberdeen Hall, Gresham Hotel: first Dublin appearance of Burl Ives.
10/12/53: Metropolitan Hall: the Culwick Choral Society.

Collection contains 3 timetables for the Feis Ceoil Competitions 1953.
Date range 1953 - 1953
Associated People and Organisations Acton, Charles - Benthien String Quartet - Cork orchestral society - Culwick Choral Society - D'Albert, Francois - Dublin Orchestral Players - Feis Ceoil (later Siemens [Nixdorf] Feis Ceoil) - Irish Musical Arts Society - Irish-German Society - Ives, Burt - Janigro, Antonio - Laurent, Leopold - Lewis, Richard - Loveridge-Martin-Hooton Trio - Lush, Ernest 1908 - 1988 Lynch, Charles - Lynch, Seán - Marshall, Rhona - Matthews, Denis - Nelsova, Zara - New London String Quartet - O'Keefe, Patricia - Orloff, Vladimir - Our Lady's Choral Society - Prieur Instrumental Ensemble - Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra - Robert Masters Pianoforte Quartet - Royal Dublin Society - Royal Irish Academy of Music Students' Musical Union - Royal Irish Academy of Music - Siki, Bela - Vanecek, Jaroslav -
Associated Places Abbey Lecture Hall, Lower Abbey Street Gresham Hotel: Aberdeen Hall Archbishop Byrne Hall, Dublin Capitol Theatre, Dublin City hall, Cork Hibernian Cinema, Mullingar Metropolitan Hall, Lower Abbey Street RDS Member's Hall, Ballsbridge Royal Irish Academy of Music St. Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road, Dublin
Associated Times 20th century - mid 1931-1970
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