Celebrity Concert Season Opens at Wollongong Enthusiastic Audience Acclaims Goossens & Abc Sydney Symphony Orchestra
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 1
The ABC Sydney Symphony Orchestra was given an enthusiastic reception at Wollongong last Thursday afternoon and evening The evening's programme was the opening concert of the…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 2
Music-lovers came from Bowral, Nowra and Helensburgh to attend the symphony concert in Wollongong, on Thursday night, when…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3
Illawarra Symphony Orchestra at Friday night's meeting of the City Council was granted a donation of £100 on the…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 5
A large crowd in the Soldiers' Memorial Hall on Saturday, March 20th., saw an impressive display of dancing when the Dance Festival…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 1
If Greater Wollongong City Council persisted with its policy of refusing to allow a more practical subsidy, the Illawarra Orchestral Society—and the Illawarra Symphony Orchestra—would be forced into liquidation before the end of the year…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 5
The annual St. Patrick's Ball was celebrated on Friday night. There was a large attendance and the sum of £74 was raised…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 7
Statements made this week in orchestral circles would indicate that unless the Illawarra Orchestral Society soon receives good financial…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 1
The Illawarra Symphony Orchestra would probably be prepared to give concerts in the northern coal mining centres of Greater Wollongong if it were to receive an adequate subsidy from the Joint Coal Board, according to an executive of the Society this week…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 3
As a sequel to a fight in a dance hall at Kiama on January 31. John ('jock') William Murphy (20), labourer and pugilist, was…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 7
Last Monday night's concert at the Civic Theatre by the Illawarra Orchestral Society's—its tenth—was by far the best…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 1
The Illawarra Orchestral Society Committee has asked the Joint Coal Board for an annual grant of £4,000 as a subsidy for the Illawarra Symphony Orchestra. It is maintained by the Committee that this sum would allow for…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 5
A tree-planting ceremony was held in the grounds of the Port' Kembla Band Hall on Saturday to commemorate the memory of a number of…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 22 April 1948 · page 9
[?]s to be one of the [?]enings of any [?] date Port Kem[?] clash for the…
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Kiama Independent · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 4
The Kiama Municipal, Silver Band have been practicing hard for some time as they are taking part in the Third Band Contest of the Far…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 6
Those responsible for its organisation are to be congraulated on the success that attended the annual P. and C. Ball…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 7
The Savoy Theatre, Wollongong, was crowded to capacity last Thursday night for the concert arranged in connection with…
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Kiama Independent · Wednesday 5 May 1948 · page 2
To the organisers of the Parents and Citizen's Ball held in the Agricultural Hall, Albion Park, on Friday night, 24th April, great credit is…
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Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1948 · page 2
The Greater City Council, on Friday night, adopted a recommendation from the Finance Committee that a straight out…
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Kiama Independent · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 3
The Ball held on Thursday night for the purpose of crowning a Queen the winner of the. Competition held recently to. raise money for the…
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Kiama Independent · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 6
On Sunday last the third round of the Far Southern Group Band Contest was held at Bega. Bega District Band were the…
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