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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
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The Anniversary of the King's Birth-day was celebrated by the Governor, and Mrs. Darling, in a manner worthy of the event, and gratifying to the people, An observance of the day is quite new to many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A very respectable and select Coterie assembled on Wednesday Evening at the Freemason's Tavern, to participate in the luxury of the long-talked of musical Melange. Hankinson's best room was very neatly fitted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Amateur Concert, to the getting up of which, we alluded in a previous Number, made its debut, if it may be so termed, on Wednesday evening; and appeared, indeed, to give more satisfaction to its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The second Concert will be performed this evening, at the Court-House, Castlereagh-street—this Room having been allowed for the purpose, as we mentioned last week. The Company will no doubt lament not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE perceive this species of public recreation will succeed. Great praise is due to the persons who undertook the management of it. They have performed their difficult task with great adroitness. We did not count…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The second Concert took place on Wednesday evenign last. By the kindness of HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, the Subscribers were [?] lowed the use of the large rrom immediately over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Concert on Wednesday evening was as warmly supported, and afforded that share of gratification which we anticipated—which the rational mind—a mind not biassed by inconsistent and mistaken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Wednesday Evening about four hundred person of both sexes assembled at the public School Room in Castlereagh-street, to listen to the musical selections of our Amateur performers of our new monthly Concert…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Subscribers to these really delightful performances, which seem to improve their favourable impression at each succeeding repetition, held a third harmonic Meeting on Wednesday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The company assembled at the Concert-room, on Wednesday evening, was numerous and highly respectableâthere could not, at the lowest computation, have been, fewer than two hundred and fifty persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ABOUT three hundred persons of both sexes, again assembled at the New School Room in Castlereigh-street, on Wednesday. evening at half-past seven, to listen to the strains of vocal and instrumental…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The admirers and promoters, not even omitting the supporters of this increasingly and generally fascinating diversion, were fully gratified on Wednesday evening. The former enjoyed the pleasure of hearing and the latter of being hard and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Concert Room presented on Wednesday Evening a brilliant appearance ; the public seemed by their extensive patronage on this occasion to reward the exertions of the indefatigable Leader Mr. Edwards, and truly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die," Is the language of Orsino in the Twelfth Night,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Edwards had his benefit concert on Wednesday evening, and a tolerably gratifying one it was; there appeared to be full 300 persons present, there may have been more, and scarcely was there one countenance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Then why of these innocent pleasures complain That leave such endearments behing? Though the sun of their sweetness be sunk in the main, It's twilight still rests on the mind."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Readers will we conjecture, expect us to say somewhat of Wednesday evening's Concert—of the number who came to hear, and those who only came to be heard—of the pieces, vocal and instrumental which evinced taste, feeling, spirit [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Concerts—those cities of refuge to which the mind may fly now and then from the toil, dullness, and weary repetitions of morning, noon, and night, and night, noon, and morning; from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In attempting to give our readers a "succinct synopsis" of Wednesday evening's concert, we have to tread a beaten path; but one, notwithstanding, which offers something in the shape of variety—somewhat amid the usual dearth of incidents to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE public evinced their appreciation of talent, and the liberality of their disposition, by a most respectable and very numerous assemblage at the Concert-room, on Wednesday evening, for the benefit of Mr. Sippe, whose…
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