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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1829

14 stories in Sydney's papers

Race Ball

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1829 · page 2

On the evening of Friday, the Members of the Jockey Club gave a Ball, at the Royal Hotel, which was attended by a numerous party of ladies. D[?]ncing was kept…

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Racin Club Ball

The Australian · Tuesday 28 April 1829 · page 3

The Ball given by this Club was an unhappy attempt of we Officials to make the Government Races go off with eclat. It was imagined the love [?] would prevail over all considerations…

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Governor's Birth Day Ball

The Australian · Tuesday 28 April 1829 · page 3

This Ball, which was intended to the nc plus ultra of all that was gay and enchanting, went off heavily. The people thought variously—of the soldiers, and of ex-officios: they thought of the…

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News From the Theatre of War. (From the Prussian States Gazette.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1829 · page 2

The St. Petersburg Gazette contains the following news from the army in the Field, from the l7th of October to the 10th of November:—…

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Musical Concert

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1829 · page 2

That enterprising Colonist, Mr. BARNETT LEVEY, has just obtained from the Government a License to open, at his magnificent hotel, a concert of vocal and instrumental…

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The Approaching Concert

The Australian · Wednesday 19 August 1829 · page 3

Mr. Levey has not been sparing of expense in the fitting up of his concert-theatre, and the saloon adjoining which will from an agreeable lounge. Thex…

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Mr. Levey's Concert

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 22 August 1829 · page 3

MR. LEVEY'S Theatre was well filled on Thursday night. The sound of the Theatre is better than that of the School room in Castlereagh-street, where the former Concerts were held…

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Mr. Levey's Concert

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 24 August 1829 · page 3

MR. LEVEY'S Theatre was well filled on Thursday night. The sound of the Theatre is better than that of the School room in Castlereaghstreet, where the former Concerts were held…

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The Concert

The Australian · Wednesday 26 August 1829 · page 2

Thursday evening's musical divertisement drew together a tolerably crowded house. The from central door of the Royal Hotel gaped on its hinges at seven, displaying the entrance to Mr…

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The Concert

The Australian · Friday 18 September 1829 · page 2

Last Wednesday evening's Concert went off, at we anticipated, in a highly creditable manner. The house was very respectably filled, and the whole performance was…

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The Concert

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1829 · page 2

Some two thousand eight hundred years and more have passed away, since that great originator of good and novel sayings, King Solomon, surrounded as he was with many…

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Wednesday's Concert

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 19 September 1829 · page 3

This Concert was conducted by Mr. Edwards, and he had the good fortune to meet a house, which not crowded, was pleasantly full, and consisting of [?]ersons at the first rank in the Colony, Among the…

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The Concert

The Australian · Wednesday 21 October 1829 · page 3

Monday evening's vocal and instrumental divertisements went off remarkably well, all things considered. The evening set in wet and stormy, which was one drawback…

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Critique on the Concert. To the Editor of The Australian. Sir, Sydney, Oct. 21, 1890

The Australian · Friday 23 October 1829 · page 2

Having accidentally seen in your Paper of this morning, a very lame and defective critique upon Monday's Concert, I beg to observe on that subject, it is matter of regret that von cannot find…

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