Tag Archives: Bygone concert venues

Bygone concert venues: the Aeolian Hall

Posted on 27 May 2016 by sw508

It’s been quite a while since we visited one of the many venues represented in our concert programmes collections here at the University Library: browsing amonst them recently, I came across our modest collection for the Aeolian Hall. Only a … Continue reading →

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Bygone concert venues 7: St. James’s Hall

Posted on 10 October 2014 by sw508

This is the post that should have come along before Treasure Grove and Wot no ice cream?. Why? Because St. James’s Hall is the venue where these concerts all took place. We have a small, but fascinating collection of about … Continue reading →

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Black Bear Music Club: more glum than glee

Posted on 24 January 2014 by sw508

Opening my favourite volume of concert programmes at random, those for the Black Bear Music Club here in Cambridge, in search of something else, my eye was caught by one of the glees performed at violinist Mr. Wagstaff’s Benefit Night on … Continue reading →

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Fifty gradations of tone: concert life at St. James’s Hall

Posted on 7 June 2013 by sw508

In amongst the runs of programmes for Monday and Saturday Popular concerts and the Richter concerts at St. James’s Hall, the University Library also has a box of some fifty miscellaneous programmes for concerts between 1876 and 1901. They are … Continue reading →

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Bygone concert venues 6.1: Black Bear Inn. Mr. Incledon comes to Cambridge

Posted on 8 March 2013 by sw508

In my previous post on the Black Bear Inn, I promised to take a more in-depth look at some of the programmes. What better way to do this than through the annual benefit concerts held for some of the leading … Continue reading →

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Bygone concert venues 6: The Black Bear Inn, Cambridge

Posted on 11 January 2013 by sw508

The Black Bear Inn here in Cambridge was notable for its concerts held from the 1770’s to the 1800’s under the auspices of its Music Club. Black Bear? Sadly, like so many of the fascinating old inns of this City … Continue reading →

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Bygone concert venues no. 5: Willis’s Rooms

Posted on 18 May 2012 by sw508

Willis’s Rooms began life in 1765 as Almack’s, a suite of fashionable Assembly Rooms in King Street, St. James’s (not far from the St. James’s theatre demolished in the 1950s) built for the eponymous William Almack. They included a ballroom … Continue reading →

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Bygone concert venues 4: The Pantheon, Oxford Street

Posted on 9 March 2012 by sw508

Those of you familiar with Oxford Street will know the branch of Marks and Spencer on the South side of the street near Poland Street and may perhaps have wondered why it is called The Pantheon. The answer? It was … Continue reading →

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Bygone concert venues 3: Hanover Square Rooms (II)

Posted on 6 January 2012 by sw508

Our previous post on the Hanover Square Rooms left a packed house enjoying Haydn’s “military” symphony on 12th May 1794. Now we move to the new century and the second instalment which sees, amongst many others, the Concert of Ancient … Continue reading →

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Bygone concert venues no. 2: Hanover Square Rooms (I)

Posted on 16 December 2011 by sw508

To do justice to the Hanover Square Rooms in a single posting simply isn’t possible, so this will be the first of two postings. The Hanover Square Rooms (known at first as the New Assembly Rooms) were built by Giovanni … Continue reading →

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