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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1893

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Irish National Concert

Evening News · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 3

As a fitting termination to the St. Patrick's Day festivities nothing could have been more appropriate than the grand Irish national concert given in the Masonic Hall, Castlereagh-street,…

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St. Patrick's Day Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

With their usual enthusiasm, the Irishmen in Sydney made their national concert last night a complete success. The Masonic Hall was engaged for the occasion, and the programme of good names,…

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The Exhibition Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

The third of the People's Promenade Concerts will be given at the Exhibition Budding to-night, when, us before, the band of the 2nd Regiment, V.I., will open the evening's entertainment at 7.30 with…

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The Easter Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

The chief event of Good Friday will be the performance of Rossini's "Stabat Mater" at Her Majesty's Theatre, where the management of the concert will be in the names of Messrs. Rignold and…

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The Promenade Concerts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 545

The second of the new series was given at the Exhibition Building to the great satisfaction of a very large audience. The performers were the same as at the previous concert, and the artists work…

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Flood Benefit Concert

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 5

A monster concert, in aid of the New South Wales Flood Relief Fund, has been arranged to take place at the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, on Tuesday…

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Parramatta School of Arts Debating Society. Complimentary Concert. a Great Success

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 7

The invitation concert given by the Parramatta School of Arts Debating Society on Tuesday evening last, was attended by a large and representative audience. The bill of fare…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

There was a change of programme at the Tivoli on Saturday night, where Mr. Harry Richards and his artistically excellent and numerically strong company still hold…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 9

The programme presented by the World's Star Gaiety Minstrel and Specialty Company at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday night was of a far more entertaining nature than many of the previous ones,…

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People's Promenade Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 9

Messrs. Gorden Goo[?]h and G. H. Naylor, the promoters of the people's promenade concerts at the Exhibition Building, have every reason to be satisfied with the progress in public favour made by their new…

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The Promenade Concerts

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 3

That " the people's promenade concerts " have already caught the popular favor was shown by the size and the enthusiasm of Saturday night's audience at the Exhibition…

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The Exhibition of Pictures in Melbourne. the Queen's Etchings. London, March 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1893 · page 7

After the close of the exhibition of the works of British artists in Melbourne, organised by Mr. Joshua Lake, the etchings of her Majesty the Queen and…

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Band of Hope

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 6

The members of the Congregational branch of the Band of Hope held their regular meeting in the Church, Auburn, on Tuesday evening. There was a good gathering of the…

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The Hibernian Band

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 15

THE Band of the Hibernian-Australasian Catho-lic Benefit; Society made their first important public appearance in their dark green and gold-braid uniform on St. Patrick's Day. The band…

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Lyceum Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 7

The new feature in to-night's revival of "Carmen up to Data" will be the first appearance of Miss Addie Conyers as Carmen, her place as Escamillo having been supplied by Miss Lelia Roze. The…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 7

The World's star Gaiety Minstrel and Specialty Company will be reinforced this evening by the accession of Miss Florrie Ford, a descriptive and serio-comic vocalist. The Fighting Kangaroo will…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 7

Mr. Harry Rickards having drawn crowded houses at the Tivoli Theatre during the past week, will retain the chief features of the programme in this evening's entertainment, which will also include…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 7

"Niobe," nearly "all tears," and the audience, without exception, "all smiles," has been proved, by the present run, to be the correct translation of the enigmatic title of Messrs. H. and E. Paulton's…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 7

Mr. Alfred Dampier, after a long absence from Sydney, will reappear next Saturday evening at the Theatre Royal, which will be reopended under Mr. J. H. Rainford's management. It is the intention of…

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