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Collection name Handel Society Invitation Concert (1902)
Unique identifier e.1395.b. (2.)
Description The programme and wordbook for an Invitation Concert given by The Handel Society at St James's Hall, London on 22 May 1900.

This was a two-part concert including an orchestral overture by Weber, choral music by Handel and Humperdinck and a performance of S. Coleridge Taylor's, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (conducted by the composer).

Soloists: Miss Muriel Foster, Mr Whitworth Mitton and Mr J.E. Talbot, with Mr E.G. Croager (organ), conducted by Mr. J.S. Liddle.

The programme includes brief historical notes, lists of the choral and orchestral ensembles, lists of the members and patrons of the Handel Society, transcripts of the Society's rules and regulations and a list of the music performed at previous Handel Society concerts.
Date range 1902 - 1902
Associated People and Organisations Weber, Carl Maria von - Taylor, Samuel Coleridge - Liddle, J. S. - Humperdinck, Engelbert - Handel, George Frideric - Handel Society -
Associated Places St. James's Hall
Associated Times 20th century - early 1900-1930
Associated Content Word books List of orchestral players Programme notes
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