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SIR CHARLES HALLE

... extent in the nature of auto- biography, and has the advantage of having been edited by Sir Charles's son and daughter. Sir Charles HallS was born on April 11th, 1819, at the I moment when the church bells began to ring in Easter I morm-surely a most happy ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2008 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Halifax Choral Society.—The season just concluded has proved the beet record. The subscriptions amounted to ..

... concerts were very expensive, there is a balance left £16 7s. *id. For next season three concerts have been arranged. Sir Charles Halle will give the first, on November 17th. when the programme will include Brahms's Song Destiny, and Mendelssohn's Walpurgis ...

Published: Monday 03 April 1893
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BATHING ACCIDENTS,

... BATHING ACCIDENTS, While bathing between Newquay and Perth (Oornwal ), Mr. Withers, secretary the Sir Charles Halle Memorial College of Music, Manchester, got out too far, and when recovered, after gallant efforts, was floating on his hack unconscious ...

Published: Tuesday 02 August 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

JOKE ON HIS FRIENDS

... out in its complete form, eihbodying three parts, in Paris in 1854, where it had a great success, but it was not until Charles Halle took it up at Manchester in 1880 that it was heard in this country. With an early part of it, now the Shepherds’ Chorus ...

Published: Thursday 07 October 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BERLIOZ’S “FAUST.” Leeds Choral Union at the Town Hall. By FRANK TOOTKILL. There have been suggestions late ..

... the Town Hall, Not only was there a full bouse, but the appreciation displayed was reminiscent of the old days when Sir Charles Halle introduced the work, and the Hungarian March and other movements came to be encored almost as a matter course. There was ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1925
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NORTH COUNTRY GOSSIP

... At the age of ten Frederick Dawson had memorised the whole of the Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, a feat which amazed Sir Charles Halle, who tested the claim and then volunteered to direct his future studies, declaring it would be his own fault if he did ...

Published: Monday 12 October 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

“MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE.”

... has a fine musical tradition of its own, quite distinct from the more recent European school established by exiles, such Charles Halle. The first concert this series will be provided by the Netherthong Male Voice Choir. The members include almost every lad ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1934
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

OFFENBACH AND BERLIOZ

... presented. Weingartner is a great admirer of Berlioz’s music, and no one knows better than he how to Justice to it. Sir Charles Halle was the first to champion Berlioz’s music in this country, and Sir Hamilton Harty followed his lead when he took over the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1933
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

70 YEARS’ HISTORY

... HISTORY. The Halle Orchestra was formed provide music for the Manchester Art Treasury Exhibition of 1857. Afterwards Mr. Charles Halle, its founder, was persuaded to give a series concerts at the Free Trade Hall. conducted the orchestra until 1895. After ...

Published: Tuesday 31 March 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE HADOW SCHEME

... to the broadcast of the first half of the Huddersfield Choral Society’s concert, devoted to Berlioz’s Faust.” When Sir Charles Halle introduced the work to this country, the Hungarian March, as I well remember, always had to repeated: now it taken as a ...

Published: Monday 13 March 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 6 | Tags: none