Title:
The Toreador / Mrs. Benson, conductress.
Production:
[Tasmania] : [volume compiled by Lucy Charlotte Benson], 1926.
Publication:
[London] : Chappell & Co., [date of publication not identified]
Physical description:
1 piano score (250 pages) : illustrations, black and white photographs ; 29 cm + 3 folders of accompanying materials (each folder 29 cm.)
; staff notation
Format:
musical score
image (online)
Notes:
Title from cover ; alternate title from playbill pasted in front cover.
Notebook also contains additional loose scores along with handwritten and typescript notes and scripts previously owned by Lucy's grandson Don Wilson.
Exhibited: ’91 Stories’, 9 August – 7 November, 2021.
History note:
Lucy was Australia's first female conductor. She was born in 1860 and lived through remarkable times, continuing to perform until her death in 1943. She composed several popular works, most of which are now lost, and was an accompanist, singer, choral director, teacher and producer; she also made costumes, painted sets, transcribed orchestral parts, and arranged choral works. Lucy presented The Toreador on three occasions: 1911, 1922 and 1926.
Partial contents:
Partial contents of bound score: Index to musical items -- Cast list – chorus ; Mary Balfe as Dora, Gwen Griffin as Nancy [photograph] -- "Toreadors" (McGuffies) [Mr Pitman as Mr Pettifer and Mr E. Craske as Sammy Gigg] [photograph] -- Miss Beryl Benson as Teresa, Mr E. Craske as Sammy Gigg [photograph] -- Fred Heraud as Carajolo, Nita Wertherman as Mrs Hoppings [photograph] -- Mrs Jennings as Suzette, Mr Craske as Gigg, The Bridesmaids [photograph] -- Mary Balfe as Dora, Gwen Griffin as Nancy [photograph] -- Stage directions : Act I -- Costume notes -- Costume notes, list of characters – Contents -- Score (pages 1-250) -- Cast list -- Handwritten notes -- 'Lavender Dreams' / R.C. Clarke [song] -- 'Mrs Lonsborough - Goodbye' / Cole Porter [song] -- 'A Bowl of Roses' [song] – [musical notations] -- Handwritten notes.
Additional material, folder 1 : Curfew must not ring tonight -- Its ‘ard to keep straight in the city -- Mrs. Worthington -- Sport -- Thank you so much Mrs LG -- The Toreador : Ladies and Gentlemen.
Additional material, folder 2 : The epicure -- The match maker [multiple versions] -- X=O : a night of the Trojan War / written by John Drinkwater, the setting was devised by Frank D. Clewlow.
Additional material, folder 3: The Procurator of Judea / … adapted by J.M. O’Donahue from the short story by the same name by Anatole France.
Summary:
Score for 'The Toreador' used by Lucy Charlotte Benson (nee Westbrook) for the performace in 1926. Mrs. Benson's Amateur Comic Opera Co. performed the 'Toreador, or, How Sammy Gigg won the bull-fight at the Theatre Royal in November 1926. This volume also contains handwritten notes, cast lists, costumes, photographs, programme, and pictorial clippings of actors taken from the Tasmanian Mail.
Alternate Title:
Toreador, or, How Sammy Gigg won the bull-fight
Citation:
Digitised item from: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.
Subjects:
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1850
Electronic resources:
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