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Collection name
Edgbaston Amateur Musical Union (1881-85)
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RB.23.b.4180 (36-39.)
Description
A collection of programme books for the Grand Annual Concerts given by the Edgbaston Amateur Musical Union at the Masonic Hall, Birmingham on 9 March 1881 and 29 March 1882 and in the Large Lecture Theatre of the Birmingham and Midland Institute on 6 February 1884 and 22 April 1885, arranged in a largely chronological fashion within a bound volume.
These were two-part concerts of vocal and orchestral music, with some instrumental solos, conducted by Mr C.J. Duchemin (1881-82) and Mr Alfred J. Sutton (1884-85), given with the following soloists:
9 March 1881: Miss Young and Mr W. Lee Mathews (vocal).
29 March 1882: Miss Eleanor Burnett and Mr W. Lee Mathews (vocal) with Miss Kate Round (piano).
6 February 1884: Mrs Alfred J. Sutton (vocal), Miss Edith Young (piano) and Mr Walter Liston (violin).
22 April 1885: Mrs A.J. Sutton (vocal) and Mr Walter Macfarren (piano).
All programmes include words, historical and descriptive notes on the orchestral works (by Andrew Deakin) and a list of the orchestral ensemble.
Date range
1881 - 1885
Associated People and Organisations
Young, Edith -
Sutton, Alfred J. -
Sutton, Alfred J. (Mrs) -
Round, Kate -
Mathews, W. Lee (Mr) -
Macfarren, Walter Cecil -
Liston, Walter -
Edgbaston Amateur Musical Union -
Duchemin, C. J. -
Deakin, Andrew -
Burnett, Eleanor -
Associated Places
Large Lecture Theatre, Birmingham and Midland Institute
Masonic Hall, Birmingham
Associated Times
19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
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Word books
List of orchestral players
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,96 Euston Road
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