Concert Programme Display

Nora Clench Quartet concert

Tuesday 6 Nov 1906, 8.30pm (Evening)

independent, concert
chamber (instrumental only)

Bechstein Hall

Wigmore Street
W1
London

[1.01]
Joseph Haydn
Quartet       op.2/6 in B flat
      

Nora Clench Quartet
Nora Clench {Esther Leonora Clench}, violin 1 ; Lucy Stone, violin 2 ; Cecilia Gates, viola ; May Mukle, cello

[1.02]
Hugo Wolf
Quartet       strings, in G 'Italienische Seranade'
First Performance in England       

Nora Clench Quartet
Nora Clench {Esther Leonora Clench}, violin 1 ; Lucy Stone, violin 2 ; Cecilia Gates, viola ; May Mukle, cello

[1.03]
Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet       strings, op.132 in A minor
      

Nora Clench Quartet
Nora Clench {Esther Leonora Clench}, violin 1 ; Lucy Stone, violin 2 ; Cecilia Gates, viola ; May Mukle, cello

Bechstein Hall box office, Ticket seller

Chappell & Co., Ticket seller

Miss E. L. Robinson, Agent

Keith, Prowse & Co. Ltd, Ticket seller

Mitchell, Ticket seller

Lacon & Ollier, Ticket seller

Cecil Roy, Ticket seller

J. B. Cramer & Co., Ticket seller

Ashton, Ticket seller

Alfred Hays, Ticket seller

Webster & Waddington Ltd, Ticket seller

Army & Navy Stores, Ticket seller

Leader & Co., Ticket seller

District Messenger & Theatre Ticket Co., Ticket seller

Steinway Hall box office, Ticket seller

Aeolian Hall box office, Ticket seller

Metzler's Musical Agency, Ticket seller

Nora Clench {Esther Leonora Clench}, Ticket seller

Miss E. L. Robinson, Ticket seller

People info: The following addresses are supplied for the ticket sellers: Chappell & Co.'s Box Office, Queen's Hall, and 50, New Bond Street; Keith, Prowse & Co, Ltd.: 48, Cheapside, 162, New Bond Street, 47, Kensington High Street; Mitchell, 33, Old Bond Street; Lacon & Ollier, 168, New Bond Street; Cecil Roy, 15, Sussex Place, 11, Pont Street, S.W.; J. B. Cramer & Co., 126, Oxford Street, W.; Ashton, 38, Old Bond Street and 35 Sloane Street, S.W.; Alfred Hays, 26, Old Bond Street; Webster & Waddington, Ltd., 304, Regent Street, W.; Army & Navy Stores, 105, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.; Leader & Co., 14, Royal Arcade, Old Bond Street, W.; District Messenger & Theatre Ticket Co., 193, Piccadilly, W.; Civil Service Supply Stores, 138, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.; Metzler's Musical Agency, Great Marlborough Street, W.; Miss Nora Clench, 22, Blomfield Road, W.; and E. L. Robinson, 7, Wigmore Street, W.

Subscription Info: 'Sofa Stalls - Tickets for the Series of Four Concerts, £1 5s.'

Ticket info: 'Single Tickets [for sofa stalls], 7/6. Area Stalls, 5/-. Balcony, 2/-.'

Miscellaneous info: This handbill announces 'Four Concerts [of The Nora Clench Quartet] on Tuesday Evenings, October 23rd and November 6th, 1906 and February 19th and March 5th, 1907 At 8.30.' It also gives the list of works to be performed at the last two concerts (19 February and 5 March 1907): Mozart, Quartet in G major, No. 12; Schumann, Quartet in A major; Tanéïèw, Quintet, No. 2; Brahms, Quartet in B flat; Beethoven, Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1; and Ernest Walker, Fantasia for Quartet (First Performance). According to the source, 'The above list may be subject to slight alteration.'

Venue Info: 1901: built as the Bechstein Hall; capacity: 550. 1916: everything auctioned off; 1917: reopened as the Wigmore Hall. Source: London Encyclopaedia


Source(s): Concert handbill, Wigmore Hall Archives

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