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Date: 1892

By: Sewell, J C (Miss), active 1960

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1892

Description: Includes programmes featuring: Mr Alfred F. Hill, Private matinee at St John's Schoolroom, Dixon Street, on 16 January 1892 Kowalski Concert Company, Oddfellows' Hall, Christchurch, 9 February 1892 Kowalski Concert Company, Opera House Wellington, February? 1892 Wellington Choral Society, Inaugural concert, Opera House Wellington, 22 March 1892 (2 copies) Wellington Orchestral Society's second chamber concert, 31 March 1892. Programme/flier. Te Hunga Waiata, Grand vocal and instrumental concert in aid of Reefton Hospital, Greymouth, 11 May 1892 Wellington Orchestral Society, First concert, third season, Opera House Wellington, 16 May 1892. Mr John McGlashan's Orchestra, Sixth annual orchestral concert, Theatre Royal Wellington, 20 May 1892 (2 copies). Christchurch Liedertafel, 39th concert, Tuam Street Hall Christchurch, 26 May 1892. Grand complimentary concert tendered to Francis A King by the leading musicians of Wellington, Wellington Opera House, 20 June 1892. The Ovide Musin Concert Co., Third grand concert, Opera House Wellington, 8 July 1892 and Fifth grand concert 9 July 1892.. Ovide-Musin Concert Company, Theatre Royal, Christchurch, 11 July 1892. Christchurch Amateur Orchestral Society, First Season, Third concert, Oddfellows' Hall Christchurch, 25 August 1892. W. H. Jude, Organ recital, Christchurch Cathedral, 26 August 1892. Public Service Association of New Zealand. Wellington Local District. Social evening, 2 September 1892. Programme W.H. Jude, Descriptive organ recital, St John's Church Willis Street Wellington, 13 September 1892 (2 copies). Royal Italian Opera Company. The Great Cuttica. Signora Cuttica, Signore Cuttica, Signor Travaglini, Signor Sisco, Signor Iorio, Signor Rebottaro, Signorina Mattioli, Miss Clarice Brabazon. Theatre Royal [1892]. Flier/ clipping/ programme Signor Foli (primo basso of the world), Opera House Wellington 19 September 1892. Dunedin Orchestral Society, Third concert of the season, Garrison Hall Dunedin, 21 September 1892. Signor Foli, Primo Basso and powerful concert company, Thomas' Hall Wellington (?), 26 September 1892. Christchurch Musical Society, Third subscription concert "Psyche", Tuam Street Hall Christchurch, 27 October 1892. Christchurch Liederkranzchen, First concert, Oddfellows' Hall Christchurch, 7 November 1892. Christchurch Liedertafel, 42nd concert, Tuam Street Hall Christchurch, 1 December 1892. Christchurch Liedertafel, 43rd concert, Hobbs' Assembly Rooms, Cathedral S Christchurch, 15 December 1892. Wellington Orchestral Society, Third concert third season, Opera House Wellington, 16 December 1892. Christchurch Musical Society, Fourth subscription concert, Cathedral, 20 December 1892. Quantity: 31 programmes.. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Date: 1894

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1894

Description: Includes programmes featuring: Second New Zealand Musical Festival. Wellington Opera House. 1-5 October 1894. Programme (2 copies) Auckland Choral Society. "Moses in Egypt; an oratorio". 28 August 1894. Flier/programme. Auckland Choral Society. "Moses in Egypt; an oratorio". 4 September 1894. Flier/programme. Christchurch Liedertafel. Herren Abend. Hobbs' Assembly Rooms, Cathedral Square. 13 April 1894. Programme/flier. Christchurch Musical Union, being an amalgamation of the Christchurch Musical and Amateur Orchestral Societies. First subscription concert (Orchestral). Tuam Street Hall. 10 May 1894. Musical director Mr F M Wallace, Accompanist Mr A J Merton. Programme. Madame Belle Cole. Song recitals. Choral Hall Christchurch.[1894]. (Programme with photographic portrait) Madame Belle Cole's English Concert Company (Madame Belle Cole contralto, Miss Gwen Davies soptrano, Mdlle Henrietta Murkens violiniste, Mr T M Jackson tenor, Mr Magrath bass, Mr W Silver pianist. Theatre Royal. Friday 10 August 1894; and Saturday 11 August 1894 (separate programme/flier for each day) Christchurch Liedertafel. Nineteenth Gemischter Abend. Art Gallery Christchurch. 7 November 1894. Programme. Bessie Doyle. Grand concerts. Opera House. 26 May 1894 (with Miss Kate Best, Mr W Mackenzie, Mr Percival Harris and Wellington Orchestral Society). Programme. Invercargill Choral Union. Mendelssohn's "Hymn of praise"; Handel's "Acis & Galatea". Theatre Royal Invercargill. 17-18 July 1894. Programme. M`Glashan's Orchestra. Eighth annual concert in aid of Clyde-Quay School Library. Friday 18 May [1894]. Programme/flier. The Palmer-Beaumont Concert Company. [Promotional brochure featuring the company members: Mrs Palmer, Miss Maggie Stirling, Mr A H Gee, Mr Armes Beaumont, Mr John Lemmone, Mr W T Barker - photographs and biographical notes about each] The Palmer-Beaumont Company. Benefit to Mrs Palmer. Theatre Royal Wellington. 3 January [1894]. Programme. St Peter's Church Wellington. "An evening with Gounod". Organist Mr T Tallis Trimnell, with Miss Stanford, Mrs Macintosh, Mr Clothier, Mr Mabin, Mr Pollock. Thursday 19 July 1894. Programme/flier (2 copies) St Peter's Church Wellington. "An evening with Handel and Haydn". Organist Mr T Tallis Trimnell, with Mr E F Pollock, Mrs Macintosh, Miss Stanford, Mr Prouse, Mr F Richards, Mr Arthur Clothier, Mr Pickering. Thurday 30 August 1894. Flier/programme. St Peter's Church Wellington. "An evening with Mendelssohn". Organist Mr T Tallis Trimnell, with Mr Richards, Miss Hatton, Miss Stanford, Mr Pollock, Mr Clothier, Mrs Ashbolt. 31 May 1894. Programme/flier (2 copies) Sapio-Urso concerts: Madame De Vere Sapio (Prima donna assoluta) and Madame Camilla Urso (violiniste), with musical director Signor Romualdo Sapio; pianist Herr Benno Scherek. Tuam Street Theatre Christchurch. Concert programmes for: 27 June 1894, 28 June 1894, 30 June 1894, 4 July 1894. Mr F M Wallace. Second chamber concert, secod series. Durham Street Art Gallery Christchurch. 28 June 1894. Programme. Wellington Orchestral Society. Third and last concert of the fourth season. Opera House. 13 March 1894. Programme. Quantity: 24 programmes.. Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Date: 1870 - 1879

By: Atkin, William, -1881; Johnson, Samuel, 1827-1905; New Zealand Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1870s

Description: Includes programmes featuring: Blenheim Philharmonic Society. Eighth concert. Provincial Hall. 6 October 1870. Book of words. Samuel Johnson, Printer, "Express" Office, Blenheim. Christchurch Harmonic Society. Oratorio "Samson". Music Hall (Christchurch), 9 October 1874. Programme (4 copies folded together) Onehunga Choral Society. Programme of the third public rehersal [sic] for the season. Music Hall Onehunga, 25 October 1872. printed by William Atkin, high Street, Auckland. Oddfellows Hall. The Ilma de Murska grand concert season of four nights. 24, 26, 28, 29 July [1876]. (Hungarian prima donna from Covent Garden, assisted by Signor Rosnati, Signor Susini, Maestro Strauss Illa, and accompanist Mr J F Hadley). Wellington, Printed at the Office of the New Zealand Times.(2 copies, 1 green and 1 white) Mr Robert Parker (Organist of St Paul's Thorndon, and conductor of the Wellington Choral Society) will be prepared to take pupils in music, after Monday October 14 [1878]. Christchurch, Sept 30, 1878. Oddfellows Hall. Grand vocal and instrumental concert will be given by The Artillery Band, on Wednesday, 15 May. With the Wellington Artillery Volunteer Band Minstrels. "Evening Post" steam print [on silk. 1878]. (Housed in separate folder) Quantity: 7 programmes or flyers.. Physical Description: Printed programmes or flyers, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1860s

Description: Includes programmes featuring: [Second entertainment in Wellington, 30 September 1864] "Mary Queen of Scots" by Miss Aitken, and "Mrs Caudle's lecture on Caudle's shirt buttons". Readings and songs by Mr Russell, Mr J Batson. [Signed] M E Aitken. [Photocopy only]. [Programme /newscutting]. Christchurch Artillery Volunteers. Grand Vocal and Instrumental concert in aid of the Battery Funds. Town Hall Christchurch. 12 October 1869. William Reeves, printer, Christchurch. Grand concert in aid of the funds of the Orphan Home, St Stephen's. 18 September 1866. Book of words. Auckland, W C Wilson, printer "Herald" Office, 1866. (Photocopy only - original in Lush Collection, Auckland Museum Library MS 780) Identity of M E Aitken as Mary Aitken not verified. Quantity: 3 programmes or flyers.. Physical Description: Printed programmes or flyers, up to octavo size, some illustrated. Provenance: Photocopy donated by D C Sutherland in 1994. Newscutting originally from Webster Collection, stamped number 3823.

Date: 1938-1939, n d

From: Searell, Harriet Alice, b 1862? : Memoirs

By: Searell, Harriet Alice, 1862?-

Reference: MS-Papers-8077

Description: Memoirs begun by Searell in Aug 1938, received from the bookbinder on 15 Nov 1939 when she added lists of children, grandchildren etc, and a poem by Thomas Searell and an obituary for him pasted in. An article about the 60-year marriage of Mr and Mrs Edwin Fenwick is pasted in the back. The memoir has been corrected and added to in Searell's hand. The memoirs are a chronological account of the Searell family, written at the request of the writer's nephews and nieces. She describes their voyage out on the `Canterbury' in 1865, settling in Christchurch, their schooling, moving to Cust in 1873 then to Papanui in 1883. Harriet Searell became a governess, she was also an organist at St Paul's Church, Papanui. Later she became an office clerk, built a small weekend dwelling at South Brighton, lists her winning speeches in competitions from 1912 to 1917. She finishes with `Incidents and accidents' beginning in 1823. She writes of all her family members, their education - the boys at Christ's College - their occupations, where they lived in New Zealand and their musical activities. Her father was variously engaged in milling and later in the other pursuits. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1893

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1893

Description: Includes programmes featuring: The Misses Albu (Miss Julie Albu and Miss Rose Albu, with Mr H E Gunter and Mr John Fuller). Opera House [Dunedin?] [ca 1893]. Programme (2 copies). Christchurch Liedertafel. Herren Abend, Hobbs' Assembly Rooms, Cathedral Square, 24 March 1893. Programme. Christchurch Liedertafel. Sixteenth Gemischter Abend. Tuam Street Hall, 25 May 1893. Programme. Christchurch Liedertafel. Seventeenth Gemischter Abend. Tuam Street Hall, 7 December 1893. Programme. Christchurch Musical Society. Annual report, 1893. Invercargill Choral Union. Third concert, second series. Theatre Royal, 27 June 1893. Programme. Invercargill Choral Union. Haydn's Creation. Theatre Royal, 5 September 1893. Programme. Invercargill Orchestral Union. Third concert, 3rd series. Theatre Royal, 2 June 1893. Programme (featuring Mr H S Reunert and Miss K Kirwan) Palmer-Beaumont Company. First grand concert. Opera House Wellington, 13 November 1893. Programme Palmer-Beaumont Company. Second grand concert. Opera House Wellington, 14 November 1893. Programme. Popular concerts every Thursday evening. Third concert and sixth concert. Theatre Royal [Wellington. 1893 or 1899?] Two programmes/fliers (With Mr J Prouse, Miss Randell, Mr Tennyson Cole, Miss Dugdale, Mr R B Williams, H Spackman, Mr R Parker). Six concerts of chamber music. Second concert (with Robert Parker, T H Sewell, H F Edger, J Prouse, T Tallis Trimnell, H Spackman, J H Otto Schwartz, Colonel Pat Boyle, Miss Williams, Mr Macduff Boyd). 7 October 1893. Programme Madame Steinhauer-Bahnson (prima donna, Grand opera House Copenhagen). Two grand concerts. Oddfellows' Hall, 15 and 17 March [1893]. Promotional pamphlet. Madame Antoinette Sterling in conjunction with the Wellington Orchestral Society (With Mr H R Holder, Miss Isabel Webster, Miss May Habgood, Mr James Wood, Mr Alfred F Hill). Opera House [1893]. Programme. Mr T Tallis Trimnell. Organ recital. St Peter's Church Wellington, 11 July 1893. Programme /flier. Wellington Choral Society Concert held on Monday 12th June 1893. Received from Mr James Jack, Hon Secretary, the sum of two shillings, for train and tram fares to and from the Lower Hutt [Signed] Edward V Briscoe, bass trombone. [Handwritten receipt] Wellington Orchestral Society. Second concert, fourth season. Opera House, 12 December 1893. Programme Wesley Choir. Grand Concert. Trinity Church, Wellington South. Schoolroom, 22-23 May 1893 (With Mr Pitcher, Mrs Holmes, Miss Prouse, Mrs Mackintosh, Mr Ellison, Mr Norbury, Mrs Perrin, Mr Tatum, Miss C Poemans, Mr Bell, Mrs Burfort, Miss Ell). Programme. Quantity: 18 programmes and other items.. Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Date: 1896

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] [ca 1865?]-1896

Reference: E-147-095

Description: Programme for farewell concert of Mlle Antoinette Trebelli held at the Garrison Hall, Dunedin. Portraits on pasted-in programme show Mlle Trebelli, Mr Harry Smith, Mr H E Melitus and Mr Arthur Salvini as well as a woman pianist and a violinist. Plan and tickets at the Dresden Piano Co and Messrs Begg & Co, Jacobs, Allen and Dickenson (Tobacconists). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on folded printed sheet

Date: 1895

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1895

Description: Includes programmes featuring: Christchurch Liederkranzchen. Sixteenth At Home (fourth season). Art Gallery, 31 October 1895. Programme Christchurch Liedertafel. Herren Abend. Hobbs' Assembly Rooms, Cathedral Square. 17 May 1895. Programme. Christchurch Liedertafel. Twenty-first Gemischter Abend. 1 November 1895. Programme Christchurch Musical Union. Handel's oratorio "Messiah". Musical director Mr F M Wallace. Opera House, 20 December 1895. Programme. Christchurch Musical Union. Third subscription concert. Opera House, 27 August 1895. Programme. Mr T Tallis Trimnell organ recital. Vocalist Mr G March. Christchurch Cathedral, 27 November 1895. Programme / flier. Quantity: 6 programmes.. Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Date: 1897

By: Routh, Frederick George, active 1875-1900

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1897

Description: Includes programmes featuring: Mr Maughan Barnett's Musical Society. First concert, third season (Record Reign concert). [Wellington, 1897]. Programme. Wellington Liedertafel. First Gemischter Abend. Thomas' Hall, 2 July 1897. Programme. Frederick G Routh, printer. Christchurch Liedertafel. Herren Abend, 24 September 1897. Programme / flier. Christchurch Cathedral. Organ recital by Mr G F Tendall. 30 September 1897. Programme/flier (includes Beethoven's "Marche funebre" dedicated to Thomas Tallis Trimnell, 1827-1897) Quantity: 4 programmes.. Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Date: [1880s-1990s]

From: Carr, Edwin James Nairn, 1926-2003 : Collection

By: Bettina Photography; Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959; Bartlett & Company (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-7880-1

Description: Comprises photographs of Edwin Carr and his family. Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s). 29 colour original photographic print(s). 3 photocopy/ies.

Date: ca 1890

By: McLennan, Marion, active 1989

Reference: PAColl-1514

Description: Loan consisted of one carte de visite album containing mainly unidentified portraits ca 1890s. Three images were copied. One, a group of musicians called the Payne Family, another Corrie and party Golden Gate [Mine ?], And a landscape view of possibly the Rai Valley Quantity: 3 photocopy/ies.

Date: [ca 1880s]

Reference: 1/2-011756-F

Description: Group portrait of a Wanganui brass band, in uniform, with their instruments, circa 1880s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1883-ca1884]

From: Hill, E E :Photographs of Nelson hotel party and Island Bay Army camp

Reference: PAColl-0376-2

Description: A concert party and friends from Wellington outside a Nelson hotel. They are from left: Mr Read (at window), (standing) Griffin, Bob Gant, Rivers Allpress, -----, Mrs Allpress, -----, [(in window) Mrs Murray, Mrs Cazneau, Alice Hill], Charlie Edwards, Cecil Reyworth, Charles Hill, Pinell, Dene Lyon, Harry Nicholls, Baillie, Bill Brown, Hawtrey West, W R Hill, (seated in window) Jack Hill, (boy in upper window) Alf Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 29.8 x 20 cm, on cardboard mount, 31 x 21.3 cm

Date: 1884

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

By: Fenton, Roger Edward, 1865-1937

Reference: 1/1-001194-G

Description: Montage of photographic portraits depicting members of the 1884 Orchestra of the Auckland Choral Society. Top row, from left to right: F Innes, A Elliott. Second row from the top, from left to right: J H Burnett, J A Lyell, J Impey, J C Clough, S Jackson, J Mumford, F Ellis. Third row from the top, from left to right: M P Westpfhal, G T Stevens, F D Fenton (Vice President), T H White, J Hemus, E Fenton, A Elliott, E Harding. Fourth row from the top, from left to right: K Stevens, A Stevens, C Hemus, Herr Carl Schmitt CBCI (Conductor), R J Yates, F Prime, F Marbrook. Fifth row from the top, from left to right: T W Killip, J F W Cook, H F Windsor, F H Edger, J McKenzie, R Fenton, F Veale. Bottom row, from left: C M Borthwick, J W Craig, E Hammond, J B Mell, H O Brown, R Craig and F Hunter. Photographs taken by the studio of Hemus & Hanna. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1898

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1898

Description: Includes programmes featuring: Annual report of the Festival Choral Society, to be submitted at the annual meeting in Thomas' Hall, 1 February 1898. Grand sacred concert by Miss Rose Blaney and Miss Clara Mongredien (with Mr H Widdop, Miss Clarice Brabazon, Mr Douglas Jackson, Herr Clemens Lehmann). Opera House Wellington, 27 February 1898. Programme Amy Sherwin (the Tasmanian nightingale) (with her company - Arthur Deane, Kitty Grindlay, Alberto Zelman, Herbert Stoneham, and S Szczepanowski). First concert. Opera House Wellington, 18 March 1898. Programme. Amy Sherwin (the Tasmanian nightingale) (with her company - Arthur Deane, Kitty Grindlay, Alberto Zelman, Herbert Stoneham, and S Szczepanowski). Plebiscite (eighth) concert. Opera House Wellington, 26 March 1898. Programme. Miss Maude Beatty. Promotional extract, quoting an article about her in the Christchurch Press, 5 July 1898. Letterpress print on small gilt-edged card Christchurch Musical Union. First subscription concert, 39th season (160th concert). Opera House, 14 April 1898. Musical director F M Wallace, leader of orchestra Miss Packer; accompanist Miss Jennie West. Programme Christchurch Liedertafel. Twenty-sixth Gemischter Abend. 21 April 1898. programme. [American Independence Day concert, with traditional songs (by Mr A L Edwards, Mr G M Reid, Mr T W Allen, Mr B Robinson) and addresses by Professor Brown, Rev G MacMurray, Mr T Peacock, Mr F E Baume]. Auckland Opera House, 4 July 1898. Souvenir programme. Jas McCullough, printer. Festival Choral Society, conductor Robert Parker [in] Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus". Herbert Spackman, leader; Miss Prouse, accompanist. Opera House Wellington, 8 July 1898. programme. Grand complimentary concert to Miss Celia Dampier (the child violinist), by the musicians of Wellington (With Robert Parker, Rosaly Merz, Constance Hatherly, John Prouse, Jeanne Ramsay, Mr R B Williams). Opera House Wellington, 11 July 1898. Programme Grand concert by Miss Elsie Hall and other artists (Mr B Angus, Dr Carolan, Mr Boult, Mr Franklin). [Rotorua?] District School-room, 30 December 1898. Programme / flier Grand farewell concert [to] Mrs Howie, the popular New Zealand contralto [Te Rangi Pai]. Theatre Royal [Gisborne?], 4 October [1898?]. Programme / flier Quantity: 11 programmes. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated. Provenance: One programme donated by Mrs Margaret Hancock, Tokoroa, from the collection of her husband, in 2009.