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Collection name Charles Acton Collection: Box 92 (1985)
Unique identifier Acton Gift 92
Description Miscellaneous programmes collected by Charles Acton from 1985.

TCD Concerts:
17/2/[85]: Examination Hall, TCD: Christ Church Cathedral Choir and Dublin Bach Players.
26/1/85: Examination Hall, TCD: Dublin Chamber Orchestra. Contains biographical notes.
3/2/[85]: Examination Hall, TCD: Musica Sacra and the Dublin Bach Players. Wordbook, contains programme notes.
15/4/85: Trinity College School of Music Recital Room: Patricia Wells and Duane Heller.
13/13/85: Trinity College Chapel: Gerald Barry; Swedish Music in Dublin. Programme + flyer
3/11/85: The Chapel, Trinity College: Lindsay String Quartet.
26/11/85: Examination Hall, Trinity College: 'An Evening of Song' presented by the Friends of the Vocal Arts in Ireland.
14/12/85 & 15/12/85: Examination Hall, Trinity College & Cork School of Music, Cork: Xavier Gagnepain and Martine Gagnepain. Contains biographical and programme notes.
10/10/[85]: Examination Hall, TCD: Mary Clarke, Siobhan Terry, Conor Biggs, Musica Sacra and Dublin Bach Players. Contains programme notes.
17/11/85: Trinity College Chapel: Eric Sweeney Singers and Prelude Brass Ensemble; part of Swedish Music in Dublin.

Ulster Hall concerts:
14/2/[85]-16/2/[85]: Ulster Hall and the National Chamber Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Contains biographical and programme notes.
9/8/85: Ulster Hall, Belfast: Ulster Orchestra: BBC Summer Invitation Concerts.

St. Michael's Church concerts:
2/6/85-29/9/85 [plus 2 duplicates]: St. Michael's Church Dun Laoghaire: Gerard Gillen and Peter Sweeney; Summer Concerts 1985 - The Complete Organ Music of JS Bach in Eighteen Weekly Recitals. Souvenir Programme book.
19/5/85-26/5/85 [plus duplicate]: St. Michael's Church, Dun Laoghaire: Camerata Singers.
2/6/85--16/6/86: St. Michaels Church, Dun Laoghaire: Gerard Gillen and Peter Sweeney.

Hugh Lane Concerts:
20/9/85: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: Roy Holmes.
[20/1/85: : Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art]: Daphne Arlow and Philip Hammond.
10/3/[85]: Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art: Concorde.
14/4/85: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: Thérèse Feighan, Richard Cooper, the choir of the Goethe Instiute, Anne Harte and Elizabeth NcNally, John O'Sullivan, Robert Pierce and Seamus Doyle; Special European Music Year Concert. Contains programme notes.
19/4/85: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: Fintan Sutton and Aine Quinn; Bank of Ireland Young Performers' Recital Series.
9/6/[85]: Hugh Lane Gallery: Marian Finn, Roland Purcell, Emer O'Flaherty, Randal Courtney and Frances Lucy; 'Young Irish Artsists Focus On Goethe'.
9/6/85: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: 'Sunday at noon' Marian Finn, Frances Lucy, Emer O'Flaherty, Jeannie Reddin and Clive Shannon. Contains programme notes.
27/9/85: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: Brian McNamara.
29/9/85: Hugh Lane Gallery: Concorde.
4/10/86: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: Colma Brioscu.
11/10/85: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: Jimmy Vaughan.
1/12/85: Hugh Lane Gallery: Concorde.

National Concert Hall concerts:
20/2/85: National Concert Hall: Anthony Byrne. Contains programme notes.
23/2/85: National Concert Hall: Elisabeth Söderström with Roger Vignoles. Wordbook.
26/3/[85]: National Concert Hall: Stephen Bishop Kovacevich. Contains biographical and programme notes.
4/4/85: National Concert Hall: Simon Charity Concert (RTE Symphony and Concert Orchestras).
7/4/85 & 9/4/85: St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny and the National Concert Hall, Dublin: Dublin County Orchestra of Young Players Senior Orchestra; Das Junge Wirbelorchester (Munich).
4/7/85: National Concert Hall: New York Philharmonic Ensembles; 20th Anniversary of Citibank in Ireland. Contains programme notes.
16/6/85: John Field Room, National Concert Hall: Peter Mallan and Philip Lawton presented by the John McCormack Society of Ireland.
15/9/84-29/9/84: National Concert Hall: John O'Conor. 'Complete Beethoven Sonatas'
7/6/85-26/7/85 [plus duplicate]: John Field Room, National Concert Hall: 'Schubert Plus' series. Leaflet.

Cork concerts:
6/2/85-16/2/85: Cork City Opera - Third Season of Opera. Season programme booklet.
1/3/85: Aula Maxima, UCC: Kathleen Dineen, Paul Everett, Aileen Callaghan, Gerald Barry.
9/5/85-11/5/85: 21st seminar on contemporary choral music presented by the Music Department, University College Cork. Events listing including concerts.
28/6/[85]: Fota House: Jerry Creedon, Jessica O'Leary, Michelle Murphy, Tomas McCarthy and Oonagh Mason.
4/5/85: [Cork]: Deirdre Crowley, Mary Hegarty, Bebhinn Ni Mheara presented by Cantrell & Cochrane/Triskel Arts/Cork School of Music.

St. Stephen's Church concerts:
22/6/85-23/6/85: St. Stephens' Church. St. Stephen's Summer Festival.
3/5/85: St. Stephen's Church: The Dublin Sinfonia with Jean Lechmar. Contains programme notes.
21/9/85: St. Stephen's Church, Mount Street: The Douglas Gunn Ensemble.

Christchurch Concerts:
1/5/[85]: Christ Church Cathedral: Peter Sweeney.
8/5/[85]-22/5/[85]: Christ Church Cathedral: Charles Pearson; Anne Leahy and Colin Nichols.
1/5/85 & 8/5/85: Christ Church Cathedral: Peter Sweeney & Charles Pearson.

Crawford Municipal Gallery concerts:
20/4/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery: The Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
8/6/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork: Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
1/6/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery: Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
18/5/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery: Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
15/6/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork: Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
22/6/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery: Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
29/6/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery: Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
25/5/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork: The Douglas Gunn Ensemble.
13/4/85: Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork: The Douglas Gunn Ensemble.

Pro-Cathedral Concerts:
4/6/85-25/6/85: Pro-Cathedral: John O'Keeffe; Conor Biggs; Donal Doherty; Gerard Gillen.
5/5/85-26/5/85: Pro-Cathedral: Gerard Gillen and John O'Keeffe. Flyer.

Royal Hospital Kilmainham concerts:
9/7/85: Royal Hospital Kilmainham: Nicola Sharkey and Roy Holmes; Festival of European Song. Wordbook.
28/7/85: Royal Hospital Kilmainham: Therese Feighan and Roy Holmes; Festival of European Song.
10/8/85: Royal Hospital Kilmainham: Michael Rippon and Roy Holmes; Festival of European Song.
27/7/85: Royal Hospital Kilmainham: Leonora Carney. Programme + flyer.
2/10/85: Royal Hospital Kilmainham: Patricia Bardon and Roy Holmes; Festival of European Song.
12/10/85: Royal Hospital Kilmainham: Patrick Power, Roy Holmes and Na Casaidigh; Festival of European Song.
14/11/85: Royal Hospital Kilmainham: Ericsson Concert in aid of St. Michael's House. Programme + leaflet.
8/12/85-9/12/85: MMM, Auditiorium, Drogheda & Great Hall, The Royal Hospital Hospital, Kilmainham: Nippon Trio. Contains programme notes.

Wexford concerts:
[date unknown]: Wexford: Anne-Marie Smith, Andrew Murphy and Jeannie Reddin; Wexford Festival Opera Friends Summer Concert.
25/10/85-1/11/85: Wexford Arts Centre: Leonora Carney; part of Wexford Festival Opera.
25/10/85: Rowe Street Church: Gerard Gillen; Wexford Festival Opera.
26/10/[85]-27/10/[85]: White's Hotel: Moscow Piano Trio; part of Wexford Festival Opera.
28/10/85-3/11/85: Wexford Festival Opera 1985 'Operatic Scenes'. Festival programme booklet.

St. Ann's Church concerts:
8/3/85: St. Ann's Church: Gabriel Estarellas presented by the Irish Guitar Society.
13/6/85: St. Ann's Church: Consort of St. Sepulchre with members of the Camerata Singers, the Consort of Viols, Prelude Brass and Piva. Flyer.

Maynooth concerts:
10/3/[85]: College Chapel, Maynooth: Maynooth University Choir and the members of the New Irish Chamber Orchestra presented by the Music Society, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. Flyer.
[15/7/85]: St. Patrick's College Chapel: Aisling Henegan. Contains biographical note.

Douglas Hyde Gallery:
14/10/85 [plus duplicate]: Douglas Hyde Gallery: Concert of Electro-Acoustic Music from EMS, Stockholm, Sweden; Swedish Music in Dublin.
14/10/85 [plus duplicate]: Douglas Hyde Gallery: Ulysees Wind Quintet; Swedish Music in Dublin.

Monkstown Parish Church concerts:
2/2/85: Monkstown Parish Church: Nicola Sharkey, Peter McBrien and the Dun Laoghaire Choral Society.
21/11/85: Monkstown Parish Church: Irene Sandford, Roland Purcell, Una Hunt presented by the Dun Laoghaire Choral Society. Flyer.

Miscellaneous programmes:
[date and location unknown]: Gerard Kelly and Una Hunt. Contains programme and biographical notes.
[date and location unknown] [plus duplicate]: IMB Musical Instruments Awards Programme: Andreja Malirsh, Brian McNamara, Kenneth Edge and Daire Fitzgerald. Annotated.
20/9/85: Ballywalter Parish Church: William McDonald and Andrew Tweedie.
[date and location unknown]: John Finucane with Roy Holmes.
[date and location unknown]: Giuseppe di Stefano, Mario Malagnini, Monica Curth.
14/2/85: [location unknown]: Maeve Coghlan, David Milne, Andrew Robinson and Una Lawlor. Wordbook.
[date and location unknown]: Nigel Rogers, William Young, the Guinness Choir, the boys of St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir, Boys of the Palestrina Choir and the New Irish Chamber Orchestra.
21/3/85: Adam Suite, Shelbourne Hotel: Maighréad McCrann and Jimmy Vaughan. Contains biographical notes.
[date and location unknown]: Padraig O'Rourke.
13/3/[85]: St. Brigid's Church, Stillorgan: Hibernian Chamber Orchestra presented by the Newpark Music Centre.
22/3/85: The Music Centre, Little Barrack Street, Armagh: Malcolm Proud; 'Music in Armagh' Special - European Music Year 1985 presented by the Armagh City and District Arts Committee. Programme + leaflet.
30/3/85: County Hall, Ballymena: The Studio Symphony Orchestra presented by the Ballymena Arts Society. Flyer.
11/4/85: Queen Elizabeth Hall: Hugh Tinney. Poster.
[date and location unknown]: Maciej Smolenski and Rosemary Hill.
1985 [plus duplicate]: UK & Ireland Tour: Eastern Michigan University Madrigal Singers.
28/4/85: Fortune Theatre, Russell Street: Roisin McGibbon, Peter McBrien, Courtney Kenny, Donal Cox and Ethna Kennedy. Poster.
24/4/85-23/5/85: Dublin Public Libraries: European Music Year 1985. Programme of activities.
25/5/85: St. Patrick's Church, Dalkey: The Alvora Trio with Betty Barrett.
25/4/85-17/5/85: Waterford Regional Technical College 'Music in Spring' Series leaflet.
30/6/[85]: [location unknown]: Gerard Gillen.
[date unknown]: City of Dublin VEC College of Music: College of Music Handel Chorus and Drama Students.
21/6/85: Main Auditorium, Carysfort College, Carysfort Ave, Blackrock: Nikhil Banerjee with Anindo Chatterjee and Sheema Mukherjee. Contains biographical and programme notes.
26/6/85-20/7/85: Ireland, Germany and France: Dublin Baroque Players.
25/5/85: St. Andrew's Church, Suffock Street: Dublin Orchestral Players. Flyer.
9/10/85-12/10/85: Northern Ireland Tour: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
29/10/85-31/10/85: Northern Ireland Tour: Scottish Early Music Consort. Flyer.
[date and location unknown]: Barry Douglas.
7/10/[85]: McCullogh Pigott, Suffolk Street: Anthony Byrne.
[date and location unknown]: Jupiter Ensemble. Contains programme notes.
13/11/85-27/11/86: JJ Smyths, Music-Lounge, No.12 Aungier Street: Catherine Gaughan, Frank Dunne and Mary Scarlett. 'The Songs of Thomas Moore'. Flyer.
10/11/85: Regional Technical College, Carlow: Carlow Choral Union. Premiere performance of 'Carlow Cantata' by Brian Boydell.
11/11/85-12/11/85: RDS: Louis Kentner.
5/11/85: St. Patrick's Cathedral: Sarah Brightman, William Kendall, St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir, Guinness Choir, the Requiem Orchestra.

Collection includes miscellaneous programmes without information on who, where or when; press releases; correspondence; Music for Galway newsletter.
Date range 1985 - 1985
Associated People and Organisations Acton, Charles - Alvora Trio - Arlow, Daphne - Armagh City and District Arts Community - Ballymena Arts Society - Banerjee, Nikhil - Bank of Ireland Young Performers' Recital Series - Bardon, Patricia - Barrett, Betty - Barry, Gerald - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Biggs, Conor - Bodley, Seóirse - Boydell, Brian - Boys of the Palestrina Choir - Brightman, Sarah - Brioscu, Colma - Brönicke, Rhonda - Byrne, Anthony - Callaghan, Aileen - Camerata Singers - Cantrell & Cochrane - Carlow Choral Union - Carney, Leonara - Chartterjee, Anindo - Christchuch cathedral choir, Oxford - City of Dublin VEC College of Music Drama Students - City of Dublin VEC College of Music Handel Chorus - Clarke, Mary - Concorde - Cooper, Richard - Cork School of Music - Coughlan, Maeve - Courtney, Randal - Cox, Donal - Creedon, Jerry - Crowley, Deirdre - Curth, Monica - Das Junge Wirbelorchester (Munich) - Dineen, Kathleen - Doherty, Donal - Douglas Gunn Ensemble - Douglas, Barry - Doyle, Seamus - Dublin Bach Players - Dublin Baroque Players - Dublin Chamber Orchestra - Dublin County Orchestra of Young Players Senior Orchestra - Dublin Sinfonia - Dun Laoghaire Choral Society - Dunne, Frank - Eastern Michigan University Madrigal Singers - Eckersley, Kate - Edge, Kenneth - Eric Sweeney Singers - Estarellas, Gabriel - Everett, Paul - Feighan, Thérèse - Festival of European Song - Finn, Marian - Finucane, John - Fitzgerald, Daire - Friends of the Vocal Arts in Dublin - Gagnepain, Martine - Gagnepain, Xavier - Gaughan, Catherine - Gillen, Gerard - Goethe Institute Choir - Guinness Choir - Hammond, Philip - Harte, Anne - Hegarty, Mary - Heller, Duane - Henegan, Aisling - Hibernian Chamber Orchestra - Hill, Rosemary - Holmes, Roy - Hunt, Una - Irish Guitar Society - John McCormack Society of Ireland - Jupiter Ensemble - Kelly, Gerard - Kendall, William - Kennedy, Ethna - Kenny, Courtney - Kentner, Louis 1905 - 1987 Kerrigan, Aylish E. - Kovacevich, Stephen Bishop - Lawlor, Una - Lawton, Philip - Leahy, Anne - Lechmar, Jean - Lucy, Frances - Malagnini, Mario - Mallan, Peter - Marlirsh, Andreja - Mason, Oonagh - Maynooth University Choir - McBrien, Peter - McCarthy, Tomas - McCrann, Mairead - McDonald, William - McGibbon, Roisin - McNally, Elizabeth - McNamara, Brian - Milne, David - Moscow Piano Trio - Mukherjee, Sheema - Murphy, Andrew - Murphy, Michelle - Music Department, UCC - Musica Sacra - Na Casaidigh - New Irish Chamber Orchestra - New York Philharmonic Ensembles - Newpark Music Centre - Ni Mheara, Bebhinn - Nichols, Colin - Nippon Trio - O'Conor, John - O'Flaherty, Emer - O'Keeffe, John - O'Leary, Jessica - O'Rourke, Padraig - O'Sullivan, John - Pearson, Charles - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble - Pierce, Robert - Piva - Prelude Brass - Proud, Malcolm - Purcell, Roland - Quinn, Aine - Reddin, Jeannie - Requiem Orchestra - Rippon, Michael - Robinson, Andrew - Rogers, Nigel - RTÉ Concert Orchestra - RTÉ Symphony Orchestra - Sandford, Irene - Scarlett, Mary - Scottish Early Music Consort - Shannon, Clive - Sharkey, Nicola - Smith, Anne-Marie - Smolenski, Maciej - Söderström, Elisabeth - St. Patrick's Cathedral Boy Choristers - St. Patrick's College Maynooth Music Society - Stefano, Guiseppe di - Studio Symphony Orchestra - Sundays At Noon Concert Series (Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art) - Sutton, Fintan - Sweeney, Peter - Terry, Siobhán - Tinney, Hugh - Triskel Arts - Tweedie, Andrew - Ulysees Wind Quintet - Vaughan, Jimmy - Vignoles, Roger - Wells, Patricia - Young, William -
Associated Places Adam Suite, Shelbourne Hotel Ballywater Parish Church Carysfort College, Blackrock, Dublin Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin City of Dublin VEC College of Music Cork Cork School of Music County Hall, Ballymena Crawford (Municipal) Art Gallery Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Dublin Public Libraries Examination Hall, Trinity College Dublin Fortune Theatre Fota House, Cork France Germany Great Hall, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin JJ Smiths, Aungier Street John Field Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin McCullogh Pigott, Suffolk Street MMM Auditorium Drogheda Monkstown Parish Church, Dublin Music Centre, Little Barrack, Armagh National Concert Hall, Earlsford Terrace, Dublin Northern Ireland Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street Recital Room, No.5, Trinity College Dublin Regional Technical College, Carlow Rowe Street Church, Wexford Royal Dublin Society, Ballsbridge Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin St. Andrew's Church, Suffolk Street St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street, Dublin St. Brigid's Church, Stillorgan St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny St. Michael's Church, Dun Laoghaire St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin St. Patrick's Church, Dalkey St. Patrick's College Chapel, Maynooth St. Stephen's Church (the Pepper Canister Church), Upper Mount Street Trinity College Chapel, Dublin Ulster Hall and Annexe, Belfast Waterford Regional Technical College Wexford Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford White's Hotel, Wexford
Associated Times 20th century - late 1971-1999
Associated Content Historical Notes Pop concerts Word books Analytical Notes Annotations Correspondence Flyers Leaflets
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