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Collection name Sunday Evening Chamber Concerts (1896-97)
Unique identifier d.484.f
Description An incomplete set of analytical programmes for the first series of Sunday Evening Chamber Concerts, given at the Queen’s (Small) Hall, Langham Place between December 1896 and April 1897, under the management of Robert Newman.

All concerts were given by the Queen’s Hall String Quartet (Senor Arbos, Mr Ferdinand Weist-Hill, Mr Alfred Hobday and Mr W.H. Squire) and typically featured both a vocal and instrumental soloist (listed below), accompanied by Percy Pitt.

The concerts opened and closed with chamber works for strings. In between were solo pieces, given either by the listed soloists or by a member of the quartet. The repertory was drawn largely from the works of nineteenth-century German composers.

All programmes carry historical and analytical notes by Edgar F. Jacques which incorporate the words for the vocal pieces. They also contain a large number of advertisements (with programme listings) for other Queen’s Hall Concerts, typically including the next performance in this series, the Sunday Afternoon Orchestral Concerts and the Saturday Promenade Concerts. There are also advertisements, with programmes, for performances given by the Queen’s Hall Choral Society on 25 December 1896 and 27 May 1897.

The programmes for the concerts given on 21 and 28 February and 7 and 21 March include a prospectus for three morning and three evening concerts given by the Lamoureux Orchestra (Paris) between 22 and 27 March 1897. These provide preliminary programmes, information regarding subscription and transcripts of press reviews of the orchestra’s last appearance in London.

Sunday 13 December [1896]: Miss Florence Oliver (vocal) and Miss Elisabeth Reynolds (piano). This document includes an advertisement, with programme, for the next concert in this series (which is otherwise not provided), given on 20 December 1896 by Miss Florence Hoskins (vocal), Madame Ethel Sharpe (piano) and Mr A. Borsdorf (horn).
31 January [1897]: Schubert Centenary Commemoration Concert with Mr Lloyd Chandos (vocal) and Madame Ethel Sharpe (piano).
7 February [1897]: Miss Regina de Sales (vocal) and Mrs Norman Salmond (piano).
14 February [1897]: Mr Herbert Grover (vocal) and Madame Ethel Sharpe (piano).
21 February [1897]: Mr Reginald Brophy (vocal) and Madame Amina Goodwin (piano).
28 February [1897]: Miss Hilda Simons (vocal) and Mrs Norman Salmond (piano).
7 March [1897]: Mr W.A. Peterkin (vocal) and Madame Ethel Sharpe (piano). This document includes an advertisement, with programme, for the next concert in the series (which is otherwise not provided), given on 14 March, with Miss Kate Cove (vocal).
21 March [1897]: Miss Maggie Davies (vocal).
28 March [1897]: Mr Edward Branscombe (vocal) and Madame Amina Goodwin (piano).
4 April [1897]: Madame Marie Duma (vocal) and Mr Herbert F. Sharpe (piano).
11 April [1897]: Miss Florence Oliver (vocal) and Madame Ethel Sharpe (piano).
Date range 1896 - 1897
Associated People and Organisations Weist-Hill, Ferdinand - Sunday Evening Chamber Concerts - Sunday Afternoon Orchestral Concerts - Squire, W.H. - Simons, Hulda - Sharpe, Herbert F. - Sharpe, Ethel - Schubert, Franz - Saturday Promenade Concerts - Salmond, Mrs Norman - Reynolds, Elisabeth - Queen's Hall String Quartet - Queen's Hall Choral Society - Pitt, Percy - Peterkin, W. A. - Oliver, Florence - Newman, Robert - Lamoureux, Charles - Lamoureux Paris Orchestra - Jacques, Edgar F. - Hoskins, Florence - Hobday, Alfred - Grover, Herbert - Goodwin, Amina - Duma, Marie - de Sales, Regina - Davies, Maggie - Cove, Kate - Chandos, Lloyd - Brophy, Reginald - Branscombe, Edward - Borsdorf, Friedrich Adolph - Arbós, Enrique Fernández -
Associated Places Queen's Hall, London
Associated Times 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
Associated Content Analytical Notes Word books Programme notes
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