ASO Heritage Pre-History

HOME

 

Photos

White's rooms (1859 Messiah performance venue)

Linger's signed Messiah score circa 1861

White's Assembly Room interior

Opening of White's Concert & Assemble rooms

White's rooms (Majestic Hotel) before demolition

Gardiner family

Theatre Royal Orchestra 1888

1893 Hermann Heinike's Grand Orchestra

1897 Herr Hopf's Orchestral Society

Other early orchestras, Adelaide & regional

Theatre Royal Orchestra 1908 in "The Critic"

Theatre Royal Orchestra 1908 better photo

Burra Messiah 1911 poster

W.R. Cade's theatre orchestra 1912

Adelaide Concert Orchestra circa 1912    newspaper clipping

Orchestra performing in the Exhibition Building 1918

Orchestra performing in the Exhibition Building 1920

William Foote, conductor

Orchestra & choir Adelaide Town Hall 1923

Small orchestra Adelaide Town Hall 1923

Adelaide Musical Society musicians 1923

Cathedral choir with musicians 1923

Orchestra at Adelaide Town Hall 1924

Adelaide Tramways Symphonic Band 1924

William Bottrall, bassoonist circa 1924

Professional Musicians of Adelaide Minda support 1928

 

Anecdotes and articles

Early opera

Adelaide Choral Society concert 26 July 1850

Choral Society concert 19 July 1858 advert

Choral Society concert 20 July 1858 review

Where was White’s Assembly rooms?

Grand concert of sacred music September 1858

Grand concert of sacred music September 1858 review

Choral Society concert 20 Oct 1858 review

Handel Festival announcement 1858

Carl Linger's Messiah 1859

Messiah 1859 pre-performance audience etiquette letter

Carl Linger's Messiah 1859 newspaper report

Letter supporting Linger

White's concert 1860

More early opera

La Sonnambula newspaper report 1861

Norwood Philharmonic Society 2nd concert 1861

Messiah 1861 adert

Adelaide Philharmonic Society created Observer June 7 1862

Philharmonic Society's second concert Nov.1869

Two leading musicians die in boating tragedy on the Gulf 1871

Two leading musicians die in boating tragedy on the Gulf 1871 Advertiser report

Adelaide Amateur Orchestra 1872(?) + the Adelaide Orchestra early 1890s

Opening of Adelaide Town Hall organ (+ instrumentalists) 1877

Gardiner family 1878

Adelaide Orchestral Society 1879

Adelaide Orchestral Society newspaper report 1880

Adelaide Philharmonic Society's Messiah 1881

Adelaide Philharmonic Society 1882

Theatre Orchestras

Society of Musicians 1885 (first union?)

School of Music, University of Adelaide 1885

Herr Reimers's (cellist) farewell concert advertisement

Herr Reimers's (cellist) farewell Advertiser review 27/3/1886

Herr Reimers's (cellist) farewell Register review 27/3/1886

Adelaide Musical Association (Gounod's "Redemption") 1887

Hot Messiah at the Oval 1888

Herr Reimer's death 1889

Early musicians various orchestras to 1940

Heinicke's Orchestra was formed

Heinicke's Grand Orchestra

Hermann Heinicke's orchestras

Heinicke's Grand Orchestra newspaper adert 1893

Hienicke's Grand orchestra musicians' list 1895

Heinicke's Grand Orchestra programme July 1896

Heinicke's Benefit concert!

A chat with Hermann Heinicke

Conservatorium Grand Orchestra players names 1898

Adelaide Grand Orchestra musicians' list 1898

Adelaide Grand Orchestra musicians' list 1900

Professor Ives' Symphony premier report

Intrigue at Con Orchestra - Ives Symphony

Conductor presentation 1902

Grand Opera Notice 1907

Grand opera - Lohengrin & others review

Picture Theatre Orchestras

Conservatorium Grand Orchestra

Conservatorium Orchestra concert program 1910 pg 1

Conservatorium Orchestra concert program 1910 pg 2

Orchestras in the Early 1900s

Adelaide Liedertafel 50th anniversary concert program

Theatre Royal Orchestra 1908 in "The Critic"

Universal standard pitch? 1st February 1908, the Advertiser

Burra Messiah 1911 names

1st performance of  Tchaikovsky 6th in Adelaide 21.6.1912

Call for a permanent orchestra Nov 23 1912

Call for a permanent orchestra Nov 30 1912

Call for a permanent orchestra -Heinicke Dec 12 1912

Hienicke Orchestra repertoire too Germanic 1913

Grigg Violin School

The Heinicke Orchestra - permanent asset for Adelaide, 1914

Heinicke Orchestra's season preview May 1914

Heinicke Orchestra benefit concert outbreak of WW1

Brewster-Jones Orchestra, Bartered Bride Overture first performance in Adelaide  17/7/1915

Brewster-Jones Orchestra Red Cross concert 7/8/1915

1st performance of  Tchaikovsky 5th in Adelaide 23.9.1916

Musicians' Union Orchestra 1919

Brewster-Jones Symphony Orchestra 1919

Verbrugghen's Orchestra's visit 1919

Forming an orchestra in Adelaide - Verbrugghen 1919

Brewster-Jones Symphony Orchestra/Cesar Frank Symphony

South Australian Orchestra 1920-35

South Australian Orchestra Inaugural concert

South Australian Orchestral membership list 1920

William Bottrall

Adelaide Tramways Symphonic Band 1924 membership

Grainger gives money to SA Orchestra. Canberra Times Nov. 1926

South Australian Orchestra membership list 1927

Mr W. R. Cade - newspaper 1928

End of the Regent Theatre Orchestra Feb 1929

S. A. Orchestral Society 1929

South Australian Orchestra Wagner concert 1929 + membership list

Grainger conducts Grainger

Harold Stephen Parsons

(Patrick) John Meegan