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    The Holywell Music Room is the city of Oxford's chamber music hall, situated on Holywell Street in the city centre, and is part of Wadham College. Built...
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    needed] The college grounds contain the Holywell Music Room. This is said to be the oldest purpose-built music room in Europe, and hence England's first...
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    Oxford (section Music)
    well-represented by artists in Oxford itself. Holywell Music Room is said to be the oldest purpose-built music room in Europe, and hence Britain's first concert...
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    organizes Sunday concerts in the Holywell Music Room. Oxford University Music Society "OCMS History". Oxford Chamber Music Society. 25 August 2024. Woodgate...
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    Century School) to the south. On the north side is the Holywell Music Room, an historic chamber music venue built in 1742. Opposite a small cul-de-sac, Bath...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach composes his Mass in B minor BWV 232 (BC E 1). Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England, the first purpose-built concert hall in Europe...
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    Consort-in-Residence at Oxford University, where they regularly appeared at the Holywell Music Room and other University venues. In 2010, Phantasm became Consort-in-Residence...
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  • John Mahon (composer) (category Articles with International Music Score Library Project links)
    Salisbury in the 1740s and to have been an orchestral player in the Holywell Music Room. His siblings were James Mahon, William Mahon, and Sarah Mahon, who...
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  • saxophone album by Evan Parker. It was recorded on June 21, 1989, at Holywell Music Room in Oxford, England, and was released on CD in 1993 by Ah Um Records...
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  • has performed at the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre in London, the Wigmore Hall in London, and the Holywell Music Room in Oxford. Radius has given...
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  • the Holywell Music Room, calls itself "Les Cousins". Roy Harper recorded his album Live At Les Cousins there, 30 August 1969 and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble...
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    first purpose-built concert hall to be built in Oxford since the Holywell Music Room in 1742. Built in 1995 by van Heyningen and Haward Architects, it...
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  • Oxford International Piano Festival (category Music festivals established in 1998)
    University's concert venues, including Christ Church Cathedral, the Holywell Music Room and the Magdalen College Auditorium. The Festival is hosted by St...
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    after the Oxford University Music Society president who found it dusty and forgotten in a cupboard in the Holywell Music Room and placed it on permanent...
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    Sheldonian Theatre (category Music in Oxford)
    from Broad Street View from the east, behind the Clarendon Building Holywell Music Room Oxford Bach Choir Oxford University Big Band Oxford Philomusica Stornoway...
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    were played at the 1742 inauguration of the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, a hall dedicated to chamber music. Their success perhaps contributed to the popular...
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    1776–94 Brasenose College, Oxford, redecorated the Library 1779–80 Holywell Music Room, Oxford, remodelled interior 1780 The Assembly Rooms, Chichester...
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    Riopy (section Music career)
    one of his first concerts at Jacqueline Du Pré Building and the Holywell Music Room in Oxford. In 2010, he performed at the Royal Opera House and opened...
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    Holywell Manor is a historic building in central Oxford, England, in the parish of Holywell. It currently houses some of Balliol College's postgraduate...
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    partnership. Duke Street, Bath, England, designed by John Wood, the Elder. Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England, the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Europe...
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  • Wadham College, Oxford, the commission to restore the 18th century Holywell Music Room (2006). For this work of restoration he won an award from the Oxford...
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    Warwick. 1748 February–April: Student riots in support of Jacobitism. Holywell Music Room, the first purpose-built concert hall in Europe, is opened. 1749...
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  • Dictionary of Music. He also wrote The Oldest Music Room in Europe (1911), a historical account of the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, and (with some assistance...
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  • to coincide with the band's 25th annual Christmas concert at the Holywell Music Room. The band takes its name from Magpie Lane, a street in central Oxford...
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  • to conduct a concert performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in the Holywell Music Room, Oxford. The Group has continued this practice since, mainly with...
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  • Francis Grier (section Music)
    2016 they played at All Souls, Oxford, and in the Holywell Music Room for the Oxford Chamber Music Society. In 2017 they performed the Beethoven Triple...
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    composition "Khayal: O Sole Mio". He performed it for the first time at Holywell Music Room, Oxford, in July 2022. As part of this ongoing experimental exploration...
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  • the League was invite Morris and Eleanor Marx to a meeting at the Holywell Music Room. This was the occasion of Morris’s first major unscripted speech...
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  • Symphony Orchestra. The Oxford University Music Club also sponsored weekly concerts in the historic Holywell Music Room. Sir James Steuart Wilson (1889–1966)...
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    four seasons of singing in Oxford when she made her debut at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, on 11 February 1779. Her father appeared on her behalf during...
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