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Collection name Charles Acton Collection: Box 84 (1977)
Unique identifier Acton Gift 84
Description Miscellaneous programmes collected by Charles Acton from 1977.

National Gallery concerts:
19/1/77: National Gallery: Sumiko Nagoaka presented by the Ambassador of Japan and Mrs. Nobuyasu Nishimiya. Invitation.
12/2/77: National Gallery: Geraldine O'Grady and Charles Lynch presented by the Ireland-USSR Society. Contains biographical notes.

St. George's Church concerts:
19/1/77: St. George's Church, Dublin: Gerard Gillen.
16/12/77: St. George's Church, Dublin: Deirdre Storey. Accompanied by biographical note.

St. Michael's Church concerts:
27/1/77: St. Michael's Church, Dun Laoire: Pro Unitate Choir and Instrumental Group.
12/6/77: St. Michael's Church, Dun Laoghaire: The Wuettemberg Chamber Orchestra.
19/6/77 [plus duplicate]: St. Michael's Church Dun Laoghaire: Franz Lehrndorfer.
26/6/77: St. Michael's Church Dun Laoghaire: Julio M. Garcia Llovera.
17/7/77: St. Michael's Church, Dun Laoghaire: Catherine Ennis.
7/8/77: St. Michael's Church, Dun Laoghaire: Malcolm Proud.
8/9/77: St. Michael's Church: Frank Dunne, Doreen Groocock, David Lane and Joseph Groocock; part of Dun Laoghaire Arts Week 1977.

St. Catherine's Church concerts:
12/2/77: St. Catherine's Thomas Street: The Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
16/4/77: St. Catherine's Thomas Street: The Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
8/5/77: St. Catherine's Church: Temple Singers with Meave Coghlan.
11/6/77: St. Catherine's Thomas Street: Les Amis de la Musique, Jane O'Leary, Audrey Park, Aisling Drury-Byrne, Frank Schaeffer and Tony Fitzsimons presented by the Association of Irish Composers. Contains programme notes.
12/6/77: St. Catherine's: Anne Woodworth, Aisling Drury-Byrne and John Gibson presented by the Association of Irish Composers. Contains programme notes.
12/6/77: St. Catherine's: Testore String Quartet, Jane O'Leary and Valerie Aldrich Smith presented by the Association of Irish Composers. Contains programme notes.
3/12/77: St. Catherine's Thomas Street: Douglas Gunn Ensemble 10th Anniversary Concert. Flyer.
25/11/77 & 3/12/77: Municipal School of Music, Cork & St. Catherine's Thomas Street: Douglas Gunn Ensemble

Pro-Cathedral Concerts:
16/1/77: Pro-Cathedral: St. Stephen's Singers and John O'Sullivan.
20/2/77: Pro-Cathedral: UCD Renaissance Singers and Peter Devine.
6/3/77: Pro-Cathedral: Gerard Gillen; part of Dublin Arts Festival 1977.
13/3/77: Pro-Cathedral: Desmond Hunter; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977.
7/6/77-28/7/77 [plus 2 duplicates]: [Pro-Cathedral]: Gerard Gillen 'Lunchtime Organ Music'.
7/7/77: Pro-Cathedral: New Irish Chamber Orchestra presented by the English Language Institute. Contains programme notes.
21/7/77: Pro-Cathedral: New Irish Chamber Orchestra presented by the English Language Institute. Contains programme notes.
27/10/77: Pro-Cathedral: Linsday Singers and John Dexter.
22/11/77: St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral: Our Lady's Choral Society with the New Irish Chamber Orchestra. Addenda attached. Contains biographical and programme notes.

TCD Concerts:
24/2/77-25/2/77: College of Education, Limerick and TCD Examination Hall, Dublin: Hakan Hagegard and Thomas Schuback presented by the LMA. Contains biographical notes. Accompanied by wordbooks.
5/3/77 [plus duplicate]: Exam Hall, TCD: Consort of St. Sepulchre; part of Dublin Arts Festival 1977. Contains biographical and programme notes.
7/3/77: Examination Hall, Trinity College Dublin: Gillian Smith, Thérèse Timoney and Victor Malirsh; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977. Contains programme notes.
8/3/77: Examination Hall, Trinity College: Fitzwilliam Quartet; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977. Contains programme notes.
11/3/77: Exam Hall, TCD: John O'Conor; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977, co-sponsoroed by the French Embassy of Cultural Services and the Goethe Institute. Contains programme notes.
9/3/77: Exam Hall, TCD: Tomás Camacho; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977.
5/3/77 [plus duplicate]: Exam Hall, TCD: Consort of St. Sepulchre; part of Dublin Arts Festival 1977. Contains biographical and programme notes.
7/3/77: Examination Hall, Trinity College Dublin: Gillian Smith, Thérèse Timoney and Victor Malirsh; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977. Contains programme notes.
8/3/77: Examination Hall, Trinity College: Fitzwilliam Quartet; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977. Contains programme notes.
12/3/77: Examination Hall, Trinity College: Dublin Orchestral Players.
2/4/77: Examination Hall, Trinity College: The Dublin Baroque Players. Contains programme notes.
27/4/77: TCD Chapel: Desmond Hunter.
29/4/[77]: Chapel of Trinity College: Camerata Singers presented by the Dublin University History Society. Accompanied by wordsheet.
4/6/77: Examination Hall, Trinity College: John O'Conor presented by the Unviersity Philosophical Society. Flyer.
26/7/77 [plus duplicate]: TCD Examination Hall: James Galway with Phillip Moll presented by the LMA. Accompanied by programme notes.
28/10/77: Recital Room, Top of No.5, TCD: Kálmán Dobos presented by the Unversity of Dublin School of Music. Flyer.
12/5/77 & 18/5/77: St. Michael's Convent, Navan & Examination Hall, TCD: Tony Fitzsimons. Programme + leaflet.

St. Patrick's Cathedral concerts:
26/2/77: St. Patrick's Cathedral: Mstislav Rostropovich.
14/4/77: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin: Irene Sandford, Bernadette Greevy and Havelock Nelson.
17/5/77 & 25/5/77: St. Patrick's Church, Wicklow & St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin: The Dublin Training Orchestra presented by the Wicklow Choral Society.

St. Ann's Church concerts:
27/2/[77]: St. Ann's Church: Irene Sandford, Aine Nic Gabhann, William Young, the Cantata Singers and the New Irish Chamber Orchestra; 'Bach Series - A sequence of three weekly performances'.
15/5/77: St. Ann's Church: June Croker and William Watson presented by the International Heinrich Schütz Society - Irish Branch.
16/5/77: St. Ann's Church: Atrivm Mvsicae; part of the Liberties Festival presented by the Spanish Cultural Institute.
4/7/77 [plus duplicate]: St. Ann's Church: The Discovery Youth Chorale and Orchestra, Michigan.
17/9/77: St. Ann's Church: Camerata Singers, Frank Dunne and Ken Shellard; part of the John Player Concerts.
15/11/77: St. Ann's Church: Roberto Olabarrieta presented by the Spanish Cultural Institute. Contains biographical note.
24/11/77: St. Ann's Church: The Nás Na Rí Singers.

RDS Concerts:
3/3/77: RDS Concert Hall: Hepzibah Menuhin with the New Irish Chamber Orchestra; part of the Dublin Arts Festival. Contains programme notes.
10/3/77: RDS Concert Hall: St. James's Gate Musical Society with the New Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Guinness Choir. Wordbook.
13/3/77: RDS Concert Hall: Irish Youth Orchestra; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977. Contains programme notes.
22/5/77: RDS Concert Hall: New Irish Chamber Orchestra with Tamas Vasary; part of the Liberties Festival. Contains biographical note.
25/9/77: RDS Concert Hall: Mayumi Fujikawa and the Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square, London; part of the John Player Concerts. Contains programme notes.
8/10/[77]: RDS Concert Hall: Frederica Von Stade; part of the John Player Concerts. Accompanied by wordsheets.
4/12/77: RDS: Grapelli Concert. Ticket.
1/11/77: Thomas Prior House, RDS: Brian McNamara and Jan Cáp. Contains programme notes.

Monkstown concerts:
2/5/77: [Monkstown]: John O'Conor; part of May In Monkstown.
6/5/77: [Monkstown]: Berndatte Greevy and Veronica McSwiney; part of May In Monkstown.
9/5/77: [Monkstown]: Geraldine O'Grady and Veronica McSwiney; part of May In Monkstown.
22/12/77: Monkstown Parish Church: Third Day Chorale with Ann Cant, Aine Nic Gabhann, Stephen O'Shea and Peter McBrien.

National Gallery of Ireland concerts:
[1/6/77]: National Gallery of Ireland: Veronica McSwiney presented by the Alliance Francaise de Dublin and French Embassy Cultural Service. Contains programme notes.
6/7/77: National Gallery of Ireland: 1976 Arts Council Scholarship Holders presented by the Arts Council. Contains biographical and programme notes.
11/10/[77], 14/10/[77], 18/10/[77] [plus 2 duplicates]: National Gallery of Ireland: Thérèse Timoney and Gillian Smith presented by the Goethe Institute. Contains programme notes.

Wexford Concerts:
22/10/77: Theatre Royal, Wexford: Kerstin Meyer; part of the Wexford Festival Opera 1977. Wordbook.
22/10/77, 28/10/77 & 29/10/77: Mr. White's, Wexford: Therese Timoney and Gillian Smith; ; part of the Wexford Festival Opera 1977. Contains programme notes.
23/10/77, 30/10/77 & 26/10/77: Mr White's and Talbot Hotel, Wexford: Consort of St. Sepulchre; part of the Wexford Festival Opera 1977. Contains programme notes.

Belfast Concerts:
10/11/77-26/11/77: Students' Union, Queen's University, Belfast: Fringe Festival '77. Festival programme booklet.
10/11/77-26/11/77: Festival '77: 15th Belfast Festival at Queen's Programme. Newspaper programme.

John Player Theatre concerts:
28/9/77: John Player Theatre: Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society presented by the Feis Ceoil.
16/11/7: John Player Theatre: Philip Martin presented by the Feis Ceoil. Contains biographical and programme notes.

Colaiste Mhuire Concerts:
19/11/77: Colaiste Mhuire, Parnell Square: Dublin Orchestral Players. Flyer.
28/5/77: Colaiste Mhuire, Parnell Square: Dublin Orchestral Players. Flyer.

Dun Laoghaire concerts:
29/6/77 & 30/6/77: Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire and Church of the Redeemer, Dundalk: Irish Youth Orchestra. Contains biographical and programme notes.
24/11/[77]: Royal Marine Hotel, Dunlaoghaire: The Stedfast Band.
6/11/77: Dun Laoghaire Presbyterian Church: Gerard Gillen.

Dublin Arts Festival Concerts:
7/3/77: George Vaughan and David Lee; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977. Wordbook.
8/3/77: [location unknown]: Malcolm Proud; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977.
9/3/77: [location unknown]: James Cavanagh, Eric Dunlea, Fergus O'Carroll, David Weakley and R. Pritzel; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977.
11/3/77: [location unknown]: Doreen Groocock, Joseph Groocock and Frank Dunne; part of the Dublin Arts Festival 1977.

Miscellaneous programmes:
18/6/[77]: Christ Church Cathedral: Belfast Cathedral Choir. Accompanied by biographical note.
6/1/77: [location unknown]: The Dublin Chorale.
[date unknown /Christmas?]: Loreto College, Crumlin.
2/2/77-12/2/77: Timothy Kane Irish Tour 1977. Contains biographical and programme notes.
[date and location unknown]: Maciej Smolenski and Rosemary Hill. Wordbook; contains programme notes.
[date and location unknown]: Irish National Opera National Tour.
12/3/77-13/3/77: Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin & College of Education, Limerick: Julian Lloyd Webber and Yitkin Seow. Contains biographical and programme notes.
19/3/77-21/3/77: Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Cork: BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra In Eire. Tour programme booklet.
20/3/77: Howth Sutton & District Community Centre, Tower Hill, Howth: Marie Jones. Flyer.
2/4/77: Grand Lodge Room, Freemason's Hall, Dublin: Dublin Boy Singers with Simon Taylor and Eric Dunlea presented by the Dublin Masonic Social Club.
4/4/77-6/4/77: Olympia Theatre: Garda Choir with Suzanne Murphy, Finnuala Hough, Celine Murphy, Lawrence O'Brien, Peter O'Brien and Veronica McSwiney.
11/5/77: St. Paul's Church, Mount Argus, Dublin: Our Lady's Choral Society with the New Irish Chamber Orchestra. Wordbook, contains biographical notes.
13/5/77-15/5/77: St. Patrick's College Assembly Hall, Carlow: Testore String Quartet, Hesketh Piano Trio and John O'Conor 'Weekend of chamber music by Ludwig van Beethoven' presented by the Carlow Music Club.
13/5/77-23/5/77: The Liberties Festival. Festival programme booklet.
22/5/77: Domincan Convent Hall, Eccles St., Dublin: Dublin Symphony Orchestra. Contains programme notes.
[23/5/77]: St. Mary's Church, Haddinton Road: Guild of Choristers under the protection of St. Cecilia. Contains programme notes.
24/5/77 & 28/5/77: Dominican Priory, Tallaght & St. Savior's Dominican Church, Waterford: Tallaght Choral Society, Dublin Baroque Players with Violet Twomey and William Young.
27/6/77: Abbey Theatre: Irish Ballet Company.
30/6/77: [location unknown]: City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee College of Music.
25/6/77-16/7/77 [plus duplicate]: Ireland & UK: The Discovery Youth Chorale and Orchestra, Michigan.
11/7/77: Royal Opera House Covent Garden: Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. 'The Ice Break'.
18/9/77: St. Francis Xavier Hall: John O'Conor. Contains programme notes.
6/10[77]: Goethe Institute: Concorde. Wordbook.
9/10/77-16/10/77: Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe: 'Cosi fan tutte'.
11/11/77: St. Stephen's Church: Baroque Trio Amsterdam presentede by the Music Association of Ireland and the Royal Netherlands Embassy. Contains biographical notes.
12/11/77: Royal College Of Surgeons: Tommy Reilly; part of the John Player Concerts. Contains programme notes.
25/11/77: School of Music, Union Quay, Cork: Douglas Gunn Ensemble 10th Anniversary Concert. Flyer.
18/11/77: St. Patrick's Training College Drumcondra: Dublin Symphony Orchestra. Contains programme notes.
24/11/[year unknown]-13/12/[year unknown]: Tour: Veronica McSwiney.
1/12/77-2/12/77: Sutton Park School. Contains programme notes.
1/12/77-2/12/77: Church of the Resurrection, Bayside: Third Day Chorale with Mary Sheridan, Frank Patterson and Padraig O'Rourke. Wordbook.
15/12/77-16/12/77: Carmelite Church, Whitefriar St: Our Lady's Choral Society with the RTE Symphony Orchestra.
20/12/77: St. Bartholomew's Church: Camerata Singers with Caitriona Yeats. Contains words and programme notes.
21/12/77: St. Francis Xavier Church: Eileen Donlon, Frank Patterson and William Young with the Boys of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Guinness Choir, RTE Concert Orchestra 'RTE Christmas Concert'. Contains programme notes.


Collection also includes film programmes; lecture poster; workshop programmes; reviews by Acton; press cuttings; correspondence; miscellaneous wordsheet
Date range 1977 - 1977
Associated People and Organisations Acton, Charles - Aldrich, Valerie Smith - Alliance de Française de Dublin - Ambassador of Japan (Dublin) - Arts Council of Ireland - Association of Irish Composers - Atrivm Mvsicae - Bach Series (St. Ann's Church) - Baroque Trio Amsterdam - BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra - Belfast Cathedral Choir - Belfast Festival - Belfast Fringe Festival - Byrne, Aisling Drury - Camacho, Tomas - Camerata Singers - Cant, Ann - Cantata Singers - Carlow Music Club - Cavanagh, James - City of Dublin VEC College of Music - Coghlan, Meave - Concorde - Consort of St. Sepulchre - Croker, June - Cultural Service of the French Embassy (Ireland) - Devine, Peter - Discoverty Youth Chorale (Michigan) - Discoverty Youth Orchestra (Michigan) - Donlon, Eileen - Dopos, Kálmán - Douglas Gunn Ensemble - Dublin Arts Festival - Dublin Baroque Players - Dublin Boy Singers - Dublin Chorale - Dublin Masonic Social Club - Dublin Orchestral Players - Dublin Symphony Orchestra - Dublin Training Orchestra - Dublin University History Society - Dublin University Philosophical Society - Dunlea, Eric - Dunne, Frank - English Language Institute - Ennis, Catherine - Feis Ceoil (later Siemens [Nixdorf] Feis Ceoil) - Fitzsimons, Tony - Fitzwilliam Quartet - Fujikawa, Mayumi - Galway, James 1939 - Gárda Choir - Gibson, John - Gillen, Gerard - Goethe Institute (German Institute for Cultural Relations) - Groocock, Doreen - Groocock, Joseph - Guild of Choristers under the protection of St. Cecilia - Guinness Choir - Hagegård, Håken - Hesketh Piano Trio - Hill, Rosemary - Hough, Finnuala - Hunter, Desmond - International Heinrich Schütz Society - Irish Branch - Ireland-USSR Society - Irish Ballet Company - Irish National Opera - Irish Youth Orchestra - John Player Concerts - Jones, Marie - Kane, Timothy - Lee, David - Lehrndorfer, Franz - Les Amis de la Musique - Liberties Festival - Limerick Music Association - Llovera, Julio M. Garcia - Lynch, Charles - Malirsh, Victor - Martin, Philip - May in Monkstown - McBrien, Peter - McSwiney, Veronica - Menuhin, Hepzibah - Meyer, Kerstin - Moll, Phillip - Murphy, Celine - Murphy, Suzanne - Nagoaka, Sumiko - Nás Na Rí Singers - Nelson, Havelock - New Irish Chamber Orchestra - Ní Gabhain, Aíne - Nishimiya, Nobuyasu - O'Brien, Lawrence - O'Brien, Peter - O'Carroll, Fergus - O'Conor, John - O'Grady, Geraldine - Olabarrieta, Roberto - O'Leary, Jane - O'Rourke, Padraig - O'Shea, Stephen - O'Sullivan, John - Our Lady's Choral Society - Park, Audrey - Patterson, Frank - Pritzel, R. - Pro Unitate Choir - Pro Unitate Instrumental Group - Proud, Malcolm - Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society - Reilly, Tommy - Rostropovich, Mstislav - Royal Netherlands Embassy (Dublin) - Royal Opera Chorus - Royal Opera House Orchestra - RTÉ Concert Orchestra - RTÉ Symphony Orchestra - Sandford, Irene - Schaeffer, Frank - Schuback, Thomas - Seow, Yitkin - Shellard, kenneth - Sheridan (de Brun), Mary - Smith, Gillian - Smolenski, Maciej - Spanish Cultural Institute - St. James's Gate Musical Society - St. John's Choir (Smith Square, London) - St. Patrick's Cathedral Boy Choristers - St. Stephen's Singers (UCD) - Stade, Frederica von - Stedfast Brass Band - Storey, Deirdre - Tallaght Choral Society - Taylor, Simon - Temple Singers - Testore Quartet - Third Day Chorale - Timoney, Thérèse - Twomey, Violet - UCD Renaissance Singers - University of Dublin School of Music - Vasary, Tamas - Vaughan, George - Watson, William J. - Weakley, David - Lloyd Webber, Julian - Wexford Festival Opera - Wicklow Choral Society - Woodworth, Anne - Wuettemberg Chamber Orchestra - Yeats, Caitriona - Young, William -
Associated Places Abbey Theatre, Dublin Assembly Hall, St. Patrick's College, Carlow Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin Church of The Redeemer, Dundalk Church of the Resurrection, Bayside, Sutton Colaiste Mhuire, Parnell Square North, Dublin College of Education, Limerick Cork Dominican Convent Hall, Eccles St. Dublin Dominican Priory, Tallaght Dun Laoghaire Presbyterian Church Examination Hall, Trinity College Dublin Galway Goethe Institute, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Grand Lodge Room, Freemason's Hall, Dublin Howth Sutton & District Community Centre, Tower Hill, Howth John Player Theatre, Dublin Limerick, Ireland Loreto College, Crumlin Monkstown Parish Church, Dublin Mr. Whites, Wexford Municipal School of Music, Cork National Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin Olympia Theatre Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street RDS Concert Hall Recital Room, No.5, Trinity College Dublin Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin Royal Dublin Society, Ballsbridge Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire Royal Opera House School of Music, Union Quay, Cork St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street, Dublin St. Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road, Dublin St. Catherine's Church, Thomas Street St. Francis Xavier Church, Dublin St. Francis Xavier Hall, Upper Sherrard Street St. George's Church, Dublin St. Mary's Church, Haddington Road, Dublin St. Michael's Church, Dun Laoghaire St. Michael's Convent, Navan St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin St. Patrick's Church, Wicklow St. Patrick's Training College, Druncondra St. Paul's Church, Mount Argus, Dublin St. Stephen's Church (the Pepper Canister Church), Upper Mount Street Students' Union, Queen's Univesity Belfast Sutton Park School Taibhdhearc Na Gallimhe Talbot Hotel, Wexford Theatre Royal, Wexford Thomas Prior House, RDS, Ballsbridge Trinity College Chapel, Dublin
Associated Times 20th century - late 1971-1999
Associated Content Historical Notes Ballet Word books Analytical Notes Press Cuttings Correspondence Tickets Flyers Leaflets
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