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The Great Handel Triennial Festivals
Large-scale choral performance of Handel had become a firmly-established feature through the work of Michael Costa and the Sacred Harmonic Society (founded in 1836) and the Crystal Palace provided an...
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Berlioz and the Crystal Palace
It’s been something of a Summer of Berlioz this year what with the CUMS performance of the Te Deum in June, the Grande Messe des Morts at St. Paul’s (with the LSO and Sir Colin Davis) and at the Proms...
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Treasure Grove?
Unaccountably the network was down in our end of the building one day last month, so with no access to a PC, it was back to real materials and I decided to sort through the box of programmes we have...
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Most exquisitely performed: A. J. Ellis, Mendelssohn and the 1837 Birmingham...
Sitting quietly on the shelves in our reserve stacks is a little volume of programmes for the 1837 Birmingham Triennial Festival. What’s so special about that, do I hear you ask? Read on to discover...
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Bygone concert venues 6: The Black Bear Inn, Cambridge
The Black Bear Inn here in Cambridge was notable for its concerts held from the 1770′s to the 1800′s under the auspices of its Music Club. Black Bear? Sadly, like so many of the fascinating old inns of...
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Wot, no ice cream? Entr’Actes in the St. James’s Hall Monday Popular Concert...
To give audiences an alternative to the Victorian equivalent of a choc-ice-on-a-stick in the concert interval, and something improving to read during the concert interval other than the extensive...
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Bygone concert venues 6.1: Black Bear Inn. Mr. Incledon comes to Cambridge
In my previous post on the Black Bear Inn, I promised to take a more in-depth look at some of the programmes. What better way to do this than through the annual benefit concerts held for some of the...
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Fifty gradations of tone: concert life at St. James’s Hall
In amongst the runs of programmes for Monday and Saturday Popular concerts and the Richter concerts at St. James’s Hall, the University Library also has a box of some fifty miscellaneous programmes for...
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A Cambridge Guildhall medley
Our collections of concert programmes here at the University Library include about one hundred for events which took place at the Guildhall in Cambridge between 1878 and 1980. Whilst they in no way...
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To celebrate, to commemorate: Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
It cannot have escaped your notice that this year we celebrate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s greatest composers: Benjamin Britten. Best known for works such as Peter Grimes, the Young...
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Black Bear Music Club: more glum than glee
Opening my favourite volume of concert programmes at random, those for the Black Bear Music Club here in Cambridge, in search of something else, my eye was caught by one of the glees performed at...
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Benefit night at the Black Bear Inn
Regular readers of this blog will have seen our previous posts on the Black Bear Inn Music Club. This post continues the closer look at the benefit nights held for regular performers such as violinist...
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Bygone concert venues 7: St. James’s Hall
This is the post that should have come along before Treasure Grove and Wot no ice cream?. Why? Because St. James’s Hall is the venue where these concerts all took place. We have a small, but...
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To celebrate, to commemorate: Chris Hogwood (1941 – 2014)
We were all deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Chris Hogwood last month. His was a delightful presence when he visited the UL Music Department and he is much missed. Others have...
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An evening with the Black Bear Music Club: May 8th 1809
It’s been a long time since we visited my friends at the Black Bear Music Club. High time to put that right and see what they were up to once again, so, setting aside my work on the Hans Keller …...
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Wearing three hats: Hans Keller and concert programmes
As I write this time, I can compete with Mr. Keller in the hat stakes, not only wearing my Hans Keller Archivist’s deerstalker, but also the extremely fetching fascinator I don when taking care of the...
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An evening with the Black Bear Music Club: May 8th 1809
It’s been a long time since we visited my friends at the Black Bear Music Club. High time to put that right and see what they were up to once again, so, setting aside my work on the Hans Keller …...
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Wearing three hats: Hans Keller and concert programmes
As I write this time, I can compete with Mr. Keller in the hat stakes, not only wearing my Hans Keller Archivist’s deerstalker, but also the extremely fetching fascinator I don when taking care of the...
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Haydn at the Black Bear
Regular readers of this blog will know of my near-obsession with the Black Bear Music Club and will, I hope, smile indulgently as I take the opportunity to craft another post about the Club inspired by...
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An evening with the Black Bear Music Club: May 8th 1809
It’s been a long time since we visited my friends at the Black Bear Music Club. High time to put that right and see what they were up to once again, so, setting aside my work on the Hans Keller …...
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