Record

Reference NoDD5/19/8
TitleCochran & MacPherson: Aberdeen Choral Union
DescriptionBox list:

Constitution and Byelaws pamphlet (1 document)
Proposed revised constitution (1 document)
List of members of council, list of committee members for various parts of the societies 1912, list of members of Café Chantent Sub-Committee, list of new members.
Meeting invitations, communications and memberships:
• Council meeting invite postcard (1 document)
• Annual General meeting postcard invite (1 document)
• Secretary postcard sent to irregular participants of practices and related repercussions. (1 document)
• Member’s cards for session 1903-1904, 1906-1907, 1910-1911 (3 documents)
• Membership cards 1924-1925, undated (4 documents)
• Voluntary contribution to the fund for liquidating debt card (1 document)
Promotional and performance tickets:
• Dance ticket December 1927 (1 document)
• Café Chantant ticket December 1927 (1 document)
• Cafe Chantant ticket Sept 1923 (1 document)
• Cafe Chantant correspondence regarding committee 1923 (1 document)
• Burns Concert Programme 1927 (1 document)
• Burns Concert ticket 1927 (1 document)
• Poster for performance of Handel’s Messiah, December 1927 (1 document)
Draft documents regarding performances, ‘Messiah’ performance orchestra details, 1927 (1 document, multiple drafts), orchestra details for ‘Creation’ 1922
Correspondence from Keeper of His Majesty’s Privy Purse station the King is pleased to become a Patron of Aberdeen Choral Union, 1910 (1 document)
Correspondence from Whitehall regarding thanks for expressions of sympathy from Choral Union following death of King Edward the Seventh, 1910 (1 document)
List of names and addresses with particulars regarding those who attended the preperatory and advanced classes Oct -Dec 1923, June-March 1924, (1 document)
Conditions of letting buildings of Aberdeen Music Hall Company Limited, nd (1 document) and Music Hall seat plan (1 document)
Sample receipts from the Aberdeen Music Hall Company 1923, 1925 (2 documents), James Macbeth (Pianoforte Manufacturer) 1925 (1 document) and Central Press 1923 (1 document)
Correspondence from the Council with invitation to become Vice-President (or subscribing member) of the Aberdeen Choran and Orchestral Concerts Association, 1928 (1 document)
Correspondence and invoices for Messiah concert, 1924-1925 (1 bundle)
Correspondence from Walter Saull, Barytone, regarding invitation to perform in Aberdeen. Includes programme of last performance, 1928 (2 documents)
Shares ledger, minimum use, 1926 (1 volume)
Cash Book 1920 – 1930 (1 volume)
Financial documents including Treasurers’ Statement of Accounts, cash accounts, abstracts of accounts, income and expenditure 1912 - 1928 (1 bundle)
Minutes of meetings, including some drafts. Final minutes on winding up of society in 1930. 1924 – 1930 (1 bundle)
Minutes of Annual General Meeting 1927, 1929 (3 documents)
Annual Reports 1911, 1915-1916, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1922-1923, 1923-1924, 1926-1927 (1 bundle)
Plate photographs (one unidentified woman, one unidentified man, two of Frank Mullins), wooden stamp of woman, wooden stamp of man and woman, wooden stamps (3) of musical staves [offer to Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums collections?]
Date1911 - 1930
Extent1 archive box
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