Sheffield Triennial Musical Festival

[RichardB]

Sheffield Triennial Musical Festival (1905)

Programmes for the three morning and three evening performances given from 4-6 October 1905 at the Albert Hall, Sheffield, as the Sheffield Triennial Musical Festival, with J.W. Phillips (organ), conducted by Felix Weingartner.

This document includes lists of the patrons and officers of the festival and numerous notices regarding the general arrangements for the event.

4 October 1905 (morning): Handel, The Messiah, with Madame Agnes Nicholls, Madame Ada Crossley, Mr William Green and Mr Andrew Black (vocal).

4 October 1905 (evening): Schumann, Paradise and the Peri, with Miss Evangeline Florence, Miss Muriel Foster, Mr Gervase Elwes and Mr F. Austin (vocal). Also, Nicholas Gatty, Fly, envious time (first performance) and Felix Weingartner, Symphony.

5 October 1905 (morning): J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor with Madame Agnes Nicholls, Miss Alice Lakin, Madame Ada Crossley, Mr John Coates and Mr H. Lane Wilson (vocal).

5 October 1905 (evening): Frederic Cliffe, Ode to the North-East Wind (first performance); Violin Concerto (Kreisler, violin); Max Bruch, Frithjof; Brahms, Nanie; and the closing scene from Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin, with Mrs Henry J. Wood and Mr F. Austin.

6 October 1905 (morning): Mozart, Requiem, with Mrs Henry J. Wood, Miss Muriel Foster, Mr William Green and Mr H. Lane Wilson (vocal). Also, two 8-part choruses by Weingartner and Beethoven, Eroica Symphony.

6 October 1905 (evening): Berlioz, Faust, with Madame De Vere, Mr John Coates, Mr Joseph Lycett, and Mr Andrew Black (vocal).

[SteveHB]

Sheffield Triennial Musical Festival (1905)

6 October 1905 (morning): Mozart, Requiem, with Mrs Henry J. Wood, Miss Muriel Foster, Mr William Green and Mr H. Lane Wilson (vocal). Also, two 8-part choruses by Weingartner and Beethoven, Eroica Symphony.

6 October 1905 (evening): Berlioz, Faust, with Madame De Vere, Mr John Coates, Mr Joseph Lycett, and Mr Andrew Black (vocal).

[madannie77]

Not doing well here, we missed the 1902 festival as well :o

[Bayleaf]

They should have advertised it on't t'internet!

[DaveH]

They should have advertised it on't t'internet!

Someone may have got a phonograph recording of it on't wax cylinder!

[Bayleaf]

Someone may have got a phonograph recording of it on't wax cylinder!

Wi' a little dog sat next to it?

[DaveH]

Wi' a little dog sat next to it?

..it's His Masters Voice!!!

But the actual HMV logo shows the dog next to a gramophone playing a disc and not a phonograph playing a cylinder.