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Collection name Charles Acton Collection: Box 73 (1966)
Unique identifier Acton Gift 73
Description Miscellaneous programmes collected by Charles Acton from

12/2/66-13/2/66: Belfast & Dublin: Edinburgh University Musical Society Orchestra [plus sheet delineating members of the Orchestra].
13/2/66-20/2/66: New Gymnasium, Curragh Camp: The Curragh Musical Society.
17/2/66: Christ Church Leeson Park, Dublin 6: David Lee.
23/2/66: Examination Hall, Trinity College: The College Singers.
15/3/66: Mariners' Church, Adelaide Street, Dún Laoghaire: FCJ Swanton and Clothilde Johnston.
10/3/66: Saint Bartholomew's Church, Dublin: Guy Bovet.
12/3/66: Abbey Lecture Hall: Dublin Orchestral Players. Flyer.
13/3/66: Gaiety Theatre: Coirm Cheoil na Féile presented by Radio Éireann 'Festival Concert of Irish Music'.
13/3/66: Aberdeen Hall, Gresham Hotel: Brendan O'Dowda presented by the Brendan O'Dowda Circle.
24/3/66: Abbey Lecture Hall: Grainne Yeats.
25/3/66: Royal Hibernian Hotel: Trostan Singers.
27/3/66: St. Dympna's Hall, Carlow: Irish Chamber Orchestra with the Carlow Choral Union [accompanied by sheet delineating members of the latter].
30/3/66: [location unknown]: Adelphian Concert Choir.
1/4/66: College of Technology, Bolton Street: The Bremen Youth Chamber Orchestra under the auspices of the Students' Union, College of Music.
4/4/66: St. Joseph's Hall, 159 Lr. Rathmines Road, Dublin 6: The Amabile String Quartet. Ticket.
10/4/66: [location unknown]: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Maken.
11/4/66: Gaiety Theatre: Cuimhneachán 1916. A Commemorative Concert presented by Radio Eireann.
18/4/[66]: [location unknown]: Dartington String Quartet, Colin Sauer, Peter John Carter, Keith Lovell and Michael Evans.
24/4/66: St. Columba's, Iona Road, Dublin: Gerard Gillen and the choir of the Holy Faith Convent, Glasvnevin.
24/4/66: Gaiety Theatre: Concert of Irish Traditional Music under the auspices of Comhaltas Ceoiltóirí Éireann in commemoration of the Jubilee of the Rising, Easter 1916.
24/4/66: St. Andrew's Church, Suffock Street: Violet Twomey, Gerard Gillen, Bernadette Greevy, The Olivian Singers and the Irish Chamber Orchestra,
26/4/66: Dun Laoghaire Town Hall: Stedfast Band Annual Concert with the John Hughes Trio.
28/4/66: Mansion House, Dublin: Bantracht na Tuatha 'Festival of Combined Choirs'.
29/4/66: St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick: Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra and the Limerick Choral Union presented by the The Limerick Symphony Concerts Society 'Cuimhneachán 1916'.
3/5/66: City Hall, Cork: 'Cuimhneachán 1916' presented by Radio Eireann.
4/5/66-8/5/66: Cork: International Choral Festival Cork. Opening festival concert programme.
12/5/66: Fatima Hall, Dominican Convent, Wicklow: The Adult Choral Group, Wicklow Technical School presented by the Wicklow Choral Society.
14/5/66: Cork Municipal School of Music: Locrian Consort and Charles Lynch.
21/5/66: Saint Columba's College: Dublin Orchestral Players.
22/5/66-29/5/66: Kilrush Opera Society 'A week of Opera'.
24/5/55: Church of the Holy Faith, Waterford: The Waterford Singers with the Waterford Orchestral Players.
4/6/66: Metropolitan Hall: Dublin Orchestral Players. Flyer.
7/6/66: The School of Music, Trinity College (at the top of the staircase No.5): Michael Chesnutt, David Ledbetter, Patrick Corran and David Lee 'An evening or Renaissance and Baroque music'. Flyer.
10/6/66: Cork Municipal School of Music: The Locrian Consort and Charles Lynch.
12/6/66-19/6/66: Saint Bartholomew's Church, Dublin: Summer Festival 1966 programme of events.
26/6/66-10/7/66: Blessington, Co. Wicklow: Festival Fortnight progamme of events.
10/7/66: Gaiety Theatre: Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra with Mstislav Rostropovich.
15/7/66-19/8/66: Examination Hall, Trinity College: 'A Season of Lunchtime Concerts'.
2/9/66: Konservatorium auf Dreilinden, Dreilindenstrasse: Schlusskonzert des Meisterkurses für Violoncello und Kammermusik.
9/66: Castlebar: Season of Chamber Opera.
[date and location unknown]: Les Petits Chanteurs a la Croix D'Azur.
17/9/66: Ostan Gresham: Eorm Cheoil na Comhdhala presented by Comhlatas Ceoltoiri Eireann.
20/9/66: St. James's Gate: John Beckett, Frank Patterson and Betty Sullivan.
29/9/66: Christ Church Leeson Park: Gerard Gillen.
10/10/66-5/12/66: Auditorium of the Municipal School of Music: Charles Lynch. 'Beethoven's Thirty Two Piano Sonatas'.
13/10/66: Monkstown Parish Church: 'A service of praise and thanksgiving on the occasion of the dedication of the organ now renovated and reconstructed and of gifts from parishioners by His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin'.
18/10/66: National Gallery of Ireland: Radio Telifis Eireann String Quartet. Contains programme notes.
[date and location unknown]: the Ulster Orchestra opening concert, Belfast series 1966-1967. Contains programme notes.
[date and location unknown]: Medieval Renaissance and Baroque music sung and played by the Dublin Renaissance Players: Heather Dobbin, Michael Chesnutt, Patrick Corran, David Ledbetter, Bernard Thomas and Betty Sullivan.
30/10/[66]: The Theatre Royal, Wexford: Bernadette Greevy with Jeannie Reddin. Wordbook.
31/10/66-[6]/10/66: Olympia Theatre: Glasnevin Musical Society 'The Bohemian Girl' opera by Balfe.
11/11/[66] [partial programme 1p.]: [Belfast Festival]. Events listing from festival programme booklet.
11/11/66: New Concert Hall, Queen's University Belfast: The McCready Singers 'recital of contemporary choral music'. Wordbook.
15/11/66: National Gallery of Ireland: RTE String Wuartet chamber music recital presented by RTE. Contains programme notes.
24/11/66: St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin: Peter E. Paxton, Fred G. Flewett and David Bedlow 'organ recital'.
26/11/66: City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee College of Music Students' Union: Anne Makower, Veronica McSwiney and Colette Corcoran. [affixed to Marlene Dietrich programme].
28/11/66-29/11/66: Adelphi Theatre, Dublin: Marlene Dietrich.
28/11/66-3/12/66 [plus partial duplicate]: Theatre Royal, Waterford: Waterford Grand Opera Society. Contains historical notes.
8/12/66: [location unknown]: David Lee.
9/12/6: Methodist Centenary Church. 'Messiah'.
13/12/66: Adelphi Theatre: Artur Rubinstein. Includes considerable programme notes.
21/12/66: National Stadium: Our Lady's Choral Society with the Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra.

Collection contains programmes from musicals, music film programmes, music course leaflets, correspondence, the programme from the Oireachtas 1966 and miscellaneous programme notes, miscellaneous wordsheets.
Date range 1966 - 1966
Associated People and Organisations Acton, Charles - Adelphian Concert Choir - Adult Choral Group, Wicklow Technical School - Amabile String Quartet - Bantracht na Tuatha - Beckett, John - Bedlow, David - Bovet, Guy - Bremen Youth Chamber Orchestra - Carlow Choral Union - Carter, Peter John - Chesnutt, Michael - City of Dublin VEC College of Music Student's Union - Clancy Brothers - Coirm Cheoil na Féile - Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann - Corcoran, Colette - Cork International Choral Festival (later Bord Gáis) - Corran, Patrick - Cuimhneachán 1916 - Curragh Musical Society - Dartington String Quartet - Dietrich, Marlene 1901 - 1992 Dobbin, Heather - Dublin Orchestral Players - Dublin Renaissance Players - Edinburgh University Musical Society Orchestra - Eorm Cheoil na Comhdhala - Evans, Michael - Flewitt, Fred G. - Gillen, Gerard - Glasnevin Musical Society - Greevy, Bernadette 1940 - Irish Chamber Orchestra - John Hughes Trio - Johnston, Clothilde - Kilrush Opera Society - Ledbetter, David - Lee, David - Les petits chanteurs a la Croix D'Azur - Limerick Choral Union - Limerick Symphony Concerts Society - Locrian Consort - Lovell, Keith - Lynch, Charles - Maken, Tommy - Makower, Anne - McCready Singers - McSwiney, Veronica - O' Dowda, Brendan - Oireachtas - Olivian Singers - Our Lady's Choral Society - Patterson, Frank - Paxton, Peter E. - Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra - Radio Éireann - Radio Teilifís Éireann String Quartet - Reddin, Jeannie - Rostropovich, Mstislav - RTÉ Symphony Orchestra - Rubinstein, Artur 1887-01-28 - 1982-12-20 Sauer, Colin - Stedfast Brass Band - Sullivan, Betty - Swanton, FCJ - Thomas, Bernard - Trinity College Singers, Dublin - Trostan Singers - Twomey, Violet - Ulster orchestra 1966 - Waterford Grand Opera Society - Waterford Orchestral Players - Waterford Singers - Wicklow Choral Society - Yeats, Grainne -
Associated Places Abbey Lecture Hall, Lower Abbey Street Gresham Hotel: Aberdeen Hall Adelphi Theatre, Dublin Auditorium, Cork Municipal School of Music Belfast (unitary authority) Blessington, Co. Wicklow Castlebar Christ Church, Leeson Park, Dublin Church of the Holy Family, Waterford City hall, Cork City of Dublin VEC College of Music City of Dublin VEC College of Music, Bolton Street Municipal School of Music, Cork Dublin Examination Hall, Trinity College Dublin Fatima Hall, Dominican Convent, Wicklow Kilrush Konservatorium auf Dreilinden, Dreilindenstrasse Mansion House, Dublin Mariner's Church, Adelaide Street, Dun Laoghaire Methodist Centenary Church, St. Stephen's Green Metropolitan Hall, Lower Abbey Street Monkstown Parish Church, Dublin National Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin National Stadium, South Circular Road, Dublin New Concert Hall, Queen's University Belfast New Gymnasium, Curragh Camp Olympia Theatre Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dublin School of Music, No.5, Trinity College Dublin St. Andrew's Church, Suffolk Street St. Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road, Dublin St. Columba's College, Dublin St. Dympna's Hall, Carlow St. James's Gate, Dublin St. Joseph's Hall, 159 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6 St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin Theatre Royal, Wexford Town Hall, Dun Laoghaire
Associated Times 20th century - mid 1931-1970
Associated Content Historical Notes Word books Analytical Notes Correspondence Tickets Flyers Leaflets
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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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