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Drop-head title: Prologue to the public readings at Messrs. Flack's Academy For Christmas 1810 To be Spoken by Henry Tolhurst

1810AQ25502London: J. Barfield Printer 1810. Single leaf broadside. Three old horizontal folds. Short central tear to head creased a trifle spotted. An anonymous celebratory ballad marking the fiftieth year of Messrs. Flack's Academy an institution of which frustratingly there is no record. The address was to be delivered by Henry Tolhurst perhaps the Kent-based psalm singer 1778-1814 and composer of several collections of sacred music beginning with Six anthems and six psalms.for the use of country choirs Chart Sutton Kent 1802. Unrecorded in OCLC and COPAC. . Dimensions 200 x 320 mm. J. Barfield, Printer unknown

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Original program for the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony

1995167671Los Angeles: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1995. Vintage program for the 67th Academy Awards ceremony held on March 27 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium and hosted by David Letterman. Letterman famously bombed as an Oscars host and would go on to describe the evening as "the greatest professional embarrassment I've ever endured." Approximately 7.5 x 11.5 inches in saddle-stapled wrappers. Faint residue on the front wrappers else about Near Fine. Housed in the original Very Good plus Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences envelope. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unknown

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Philadelphia Academy of Music 1873 Program: Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…

3726692Philadelphia.1873. â€œPrinted at ye Printing House of Henri B. Ashmeade wh is sette down on Sansome St.â€ Concert Program. 4pp. Bifolium of vegetable parchment paper partly untrimmed. 8Â½ x 7Â¼ inches. Annotated in pencil in the top margin: â€œConcert given by â€˜old folksâ€™ at Academy of Musick April 7th 1873.â€ Folds; minor loss at tail of spine; very good. Delightfully humorous program for a concert of antique music performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Likely getting into the spirit of the nationâ€™s impending 1876 Centennial celebration the producers deliberately created the musical program and its printed program in an old-fashioned style. Although not a parody the printed programâ€™s humor derives from a somewhat over wrought interpretation of â€œye olde Englisheâ€ style of writing. Its general layout typography generous use of long â€œSâ€s orthography numerous superscripted letters to make abbreviations and Old English spelling suffixes etc. and the use of vegetable parchment to simulate antique animal parchment all lend to the tongue-in-cheek effect. Annotated in pencil in the top margin of the first page is this note: â€œConcert given by â€˜old folksâ€™ at Academy of Musick April 71873.â€ Even the annotator got into the parody spirit by spelling â€œmusicâ€ with a â€œkâ€ at the end! Some examples from the text of the program: "Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People bothe menne & womenne have of late been attunynge theyre voyces unto harmonie & forasmuch as ye knowledge thereof hath come to certayne of ye townspeople of Phyladelphyaâ€¦they wyll dyscourse accordynge unto certayne sette Tunes dyvers Psalms & Hymns & Spirituall Songesâ€¦ Yt ths taxxe wh hath beene fixxede at ye rate of SIXXE 6 Shillynges currency Â¾ of a Dollar per capita canne br payde att ye shoppe on ye Chestnitte Streete whre Jonathan Gouldde & hys younge partnere dispenseth Harpsichorddes Spinnets Dulcimeres & Tune-bookes. N. B.â€”Forasmuche as ye younge women who singe are shamfaste ye younge menne are desired to loke awaie from them whenne thai singe. To avoydde heartburnnynge & stryffe amongst ye dryvers thoe wo comme inn shayes or waggyns hadde welle dyrecte thyre creeturs heddes to be poynted towrds ye Baltimore Carr Sheddes whn thy commeâ€¦" The concert appears to have been performed with harpsichords violins trumpets and an organ. It included sacred and secular music most accompanied by solo singers or an ensemble or chorus as well as a rendition of an 18th century symphony attributed to Joseph â€œPapaâ€ Haydn seen here as â€œFeytherre Haydnâ€ â€”â€œYe Chyldrenneâ€™s Symfonyeâ€ Kindersinfonie. Songs performed include â€œAuld Lang Syne By alle ye Synggersâ€ â€œYe Evils of Procrastynatynonne By Gaffer Rawlunggesâ€ â€œSherbourne By alle ye menne & wommyne at onceâ€ and â€œYe Old Hundredthe.â€ Except for the pencil annotation the program does not refer to Philadelphiaâ€™s Academy of Music which despite its name never had a school. Instead it refers to the concert venue as â€œYe Schoole of Musick.â€ Perhaps â€œAcademyâ€ was not Anglo-Saxon enough for the parodists unknown

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Signaller Tom Skeyhill Blind Soldier Poet

19164987Hobart: Academy of Amusements 1916. Small leaflet consisting of one landscape sheet folded in half to make four leaves plus an additional small double-sided leaf inserted loosely in the centre. All leaves printed in purple ink. A fine as-new item. First edition scarce. This very rare leaflet was produced by the Academy of Amusements to advertise a performance titled "With the Australians at Anzac" at the Temperance Hall in Hobart Tasmania. The cover offers top billing to Signaller Tom Skeyhill the famous blind soldier-poet who was blinded during his service in World War One and who later became known for his poetry and recitations. In the performances which ran over six nights several Anzacs who had been at the Dardanelles related stories of their time there and Signaller Skeyhill gave recitations. In addition his friend and fellow digger Private Bobby Pierce performed songs. The performances were from Saturday September 30 to October 6 1916. Inserted loosely in the leaflet is a double-sided sheet promoting future performances by "A Galaxy of Vaudeville Stars Direct from Brennan-Fuller and Tivoli Circuits [Academy of Amusements] unknown