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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1834

38 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

Philharmonic Concert

The Australian · Tuesday 29 July 1834 · page 2

The first Concert of this Society was held on Friday evening, which we may hail as the birth night of classical music in Australia. This Soiree was highly respectable…

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Theatre

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1834 · page 2

The very pretty play called The Foundling of the Forest was brought out for the first time, at the Sydney theatre, on Wednesday, and repeated on…

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Ball at the Pulteney Hotel

The Sydney Times · Friday 15 August 1834 · page 2

The first of the series of Balls proposed [?] be given at the Pulteney, took place on Tuesday evening, and as the announcement [?] something perfectly new in this Colony, we[?]…

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Ball at the Pulteney Hotel

The Sydney Times · Tuesday 19 August 1834 · page 3

The first of the series of Balls proposed to be given at the Pulteny, took place on Tuesday evening, and as the commencement of something perfectly new in this Colony, went…

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Theatre

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 21 August 1834 · page 2

Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet was produced, for the first time at the Sydney theatre, on the evening of Monday last. We will not call the attempt a failure; because, although the performance…

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Concerts

The Australian · Tuesday 26 August 1834 · page 2

It is most discordant to the feelings to find that for want of a spirit of harmony, the public of Sydney will soon be deprived of the pleasures which were promised to…

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Concerts

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 28 August 1834 · page 3

There is a rather injudicious paragraph in Tuesday's Australian, on the subject of the Concerts. Upon what data, does the writer assume that "the public of Sydney will be soon deprived of…

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Original Correspondence. THEATRE. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 1 September 1834 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—In common with our fellow townsmen, and the Public generally, we have to express our unmingled sorrow at the dreadful catastrophe attending the Edward Lombe, and it…

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Philharmonic Concert

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 4 September 1834 · page 2

The second of these Concerts was given at the Pulteney Hotel, on Tuesday evening last, to a highly respectable company. The music, vocal and instrumental, was…

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New Song. To the air of "Home, Sweet Home!" Said to have been sun by the fair fraii ones who arrived by the Steamer from Sydney, art nine o'clock on the night of Tuesday, the 26th of August, and who being is full spirit for a concert, en[?] in a style superior [?] Catalini's," on their war from the wharf to the [?] Factory—to [?] edification of the musical [?] of Parramatta, who were then about hastening [?]

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 10 September 1834 · page 4

From towns great and small, and from country we come, From all sorts of "places" we thus hasten [?] For the kind Captain graciously smiles on us there,…

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Late English News. the Queen's State Ball

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 4 October 1834 · page 3

The Queen gave a State Ball on Friday evening, at St. James's, at which were present the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers and their Ladies, and several hundreds of the Nobility…

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The Ball

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 29 October 1834 · page 4

The Club gave a ball and supper at [?] Ferbes Hotel, in the evening of the seco[?]d day which was attended by all the beauty and fashion of the district. Waltzes Quadriller…

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Theatre

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 30 October 1834 · page 2

We did think that the strictures, from time to time, which have appeared in the papers, would have awakened the proprietors of our infant theatre to a sense of their duty to the public; or, at…

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Theatre

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1834 · page 2

On Friday evening last, the theatrical season of Sydney closed before as scanty an audience as we ever remember to have witnessed in attendance at our…

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Concert

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 17 December 1834 · page 3

The Concert was pretty well attended last night, but nothing could go off worse. The room was miserably lighted; and the orchestra looked like a gloomy r[?]cess, and being situate…

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The Concert

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 18 December 1834 · page 2

Mr. Lewis's concert at the Pulteney hotel on Tuesday evening was very fashionably and rather numerously[?] attended. Besides His Excellency the…

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Mr. Lewis's Concert

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 20 December 1834 · page 2

MR LEWIS is an admirable military musician, and amid the the disappointment we experienced at his Concert. we were amused to observe the cool precision with which he conducted the Band and the…

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Original Correspondence. THEATRE. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 30 December 1834 · page 2

SIR, In persuing your valuable publication of Saturday last, I perceived a paragraph, from which I understood it was the intention of…

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