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24-481: [REDACTED] Look up liedertafel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Liedertafel may refer to the following choral societies: Adelaide Liedertafel Berliner Liedertafel Hamburger Liedertafel Salzburger Liedertafel Tanunda Liedertafel Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

48-634: A " physical culture demonstration" was performed at the theatre by Weber, Shorthose & Rice. Before or around November 1934, the Waterman family created S.A. Theatres Ltd , a subsidiary of their Ozone Theatres , for the purpose of taking on the lease of the Theatre Royal, and for creating the Chinese Gardens open-air theatre at the Exhibition Grounds on North Terrace Both theatres would show

72-545: A Commercial Exchange. In December 1850 the Royal Victoria Theatre (later Queen's) opened, also on Gilles Arcade, with Coppin and Samuel Lazar joint managers. In December 1865 a prospectus was issued in Adelaide for a Theatre Royal company to take over White's Assembly Rooms and the adjacent Clarence Hotel, alternatively to purchase a vacant site and erect a new building. By December 1867 plans had been prepared for

96-653: A minute in length and featuring dancers and American folk heroes, were shown. However, the venue was deemed unsuitable as a cinema, and the screening apparatus was moved to the Beehive Building not long afterwards. Wybert Reeve retired from management in 1900, and sold the lease to Frederick Pollock , who managed the theatre capably until forced by illness to take on Herbert Myers (1879–1927), his wife's nephew, as manager. Pollock died in November 1908, and his wife continued to run it in partnership with Myers. The theatre

120-451: A new structure to be added to the rear of Peter Cummings & Son's drapery store at 21 Hindley Street, Leonard Voullaire's at 23 (then was the financially troubled Paull & Meredith's wine bar 1868–1870), and Mrs Bament's at 27. Paull & Meredith had a wine bar. Thomas English was chosen as supervising architect and W. Lines the builder. The proprietors were Lazar, John Temple Sagar, and Jochim Matthias Wendt . The foundation stone

144-619: The Deutscher Club of Adelaide, notably Linger and Carl Mumme . They comprised much of the younger membership of the Club, who felt stultified by the reactionary attitudes of the older members. They broke away completely from the Club, which was by then meeting at the Hotel Europe, and made their headquarters back at "Father" Kopke's Hamburg Hotel. They performed at the Linger's funeral ceremony, as did

168-868: The Governor and Lady Le Hunte attending. Participating alongside the Liedertafel were the Adelaide Choral Society, Bach Society, Orpheus Society, Glee Club, Port Adelaide Orpheus Society, and the Broken Hill Quartet Club. The club disbanded in 1914, and re-formed after the Great War, but for the members' pleasure only; they held no further concerts. It was re-formed again after World War II by Hermann Homburg , and survives to this day, though with reduced and ageing membership. Theatre Royal, Adelaide The Theatre Royal on Hindley Street , Adelaide

192-492: The Boer war. They performed for dignitaries such as the Duke of York (later George V ). They appeared with musical entities Antoinette Link , Amy Sherwin , Ilma de Murska , Heinrich Koehler , and Antonia Dolores . In 1867, following the death of Spietzschka, Carl Püttmann was appointed conductor, a post he held for 20 years. The first performance given by the choir under his baton

216-744: The Brunswick (Brass) Band, of which he was also a founder. A notable concert was held at White's Rooms by the Liedertafel and Brunswick Band in August 1864 in aid of the Schleswig-Holstein Relief Fund. The Schleswig War of 1864 was a suppression of German nationals in the Danish province. Other charitable concerts were for the Indian Famine Fund and the Patriotic War Fund ft the time of

240-660: The German Singing Society (organiser H. Heinicke) amalgamated with the Liedertafel, as did several other minor German societies. A "Grand Anniversary Concert" was held at the Adelaide Town Hall in September 1905. At their 50th anniversary in September 1908, a great concert was held at the Jubilee Exhibition Building on North Terrace by the choirs of South Australia and Broken Hill, Ada Crossley ,

264-782: The Tanunda Hotel. This was not the first Liedertafel in the city however, as the Deutsche Liedertafel, with which Carl Linger (composer, " Song of Australia ") was closely identified if not the leader, was performing as early as January 1850, pre-dating the founding of the German Club in 1854, both associated with the Hamburg Hotel. The better-known, and current, Adelaide Liedertafel was founded in Adelaide in December 1858 by members of

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288-512: The Theatre Royal, its hotel and the adjoining shops for £11,000, and lost no time in appointing George Johnson architect for a complete rebuild of the theatre. Enlarged to accommodate 3,000 patrons, the theatre became the first example of Victorian theatrical interior design in Adelaide. The rebuilt house was opened on 25 March 1878 with an address written by Ebenezer Ward , followed by the opera Giroflé-Girofla with Emily Soldene , Minna Fischer and Clara Vesey . These first few years were

312-712: The financial benefit of the Club. The club rented a large room in the Freemasons' Hall, adjacent Earl of Zetland Hotel, Flinders Street from ?? to 1880, the German Club's Albert Hall , then from 1882 the King of Hanover Hotel. At the 22nd anniversary of its foundation in 1880 at the Albert Hall, the Liedertafel performed exclusively compositions by their patron Franz Abt , under the Püttmann baton, Otto Stange on piano. In March 1891

336-462: The heyday of musical theatre. In 1883 external fire stairs were erected in response to demands from the City Council. In January 1885 Arthur Chapman , a brother of the owner, joined George Rignold and James Allison as co-lessees; Chapman being the local representative. In December Rignold and Allison withdrew from the partnership, leaving Chapman as sole trustee, as well as acting as managing

360-514: The property for the ailing Edgar Chapman, and then for his estate. He continued in both roles April 1886, when Williamson, Garner, & Musgrove took over the lease, and on 1887 appointed Wybert Reeve as manager. Around 1889 Reeve became sole lessee of the theatre. On 19 October 1896 he hosted the first public demonstration in South Australia of moving pictures , the projector being a cinématographe Lumière . A number of short films, around

384-523: The property shortly afterwards, and it remained in his family for some time. The first lessee and director was George Coppin of Coppin, Harwood and Hennings, with stage manager J. R. Greville (1834–1894), a noted comedian. Lazar was lessee and manager from 1870, for a time in partnership with one Reuben Mills, suspended while his liquidity was being sorted out, then sole lessee from 1871. James Allison joined him as partner in 1873, became sole lessee around 1876. In October 1876 Edgar Chapman purchased

408-594: The same MGM films at both venues. During the war years, the Theatre Royal ran an orchestra, in which the mother of QC Ted Mullighan played violin. Tallis died in 1947. Myers' half share was inherited by his widow, Dora Myers, who was still alive when in January 1954 the Tallis estate sold its interest to J. C. Williamson's, which had been leasing the theatre, with the lease expiring in that month. At an auction on 6 May 1955, department store Miller Anderson & Co. bought

432-703: The theatre hosted the premiere of The Woman Suffers , an Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford . Myers purchased the lease in December 1921, and in 1920 purchased the property from the Chapman estate. Myers, before his death in 1927, sold a half-share in the theatre to Sir George Tallis of Melbourne, who later sold a quarter interest of his share to the Tait family business. (Theatre entrepreneur Frank Tait had worked for J. C. Williamson's from 1900 until 1916, when he joined J. & N. Tait in Sydney . ) In March 1934,

456-667: The title Liedertafel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liedertafel&oldid=1251649602 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Adelaide Liedertafel The first "Adelaide Liedertafel" met in 1854 and 1855 at Wiener & Fischer's coffee house on Rundle Street, but disbanded when Robert Wiener and George Fischer left for Tanunda , where they operated

480-751: Was a comic opera Die Mordgrundbruck bei Dresden at the Theatre Royal in 1868; the first opera performed by amateurs in Adelaide. The club was reorganised in 1871. The choir attended the 1874 Sängerfest in Tanunda, along with the Adelaide Turnverein and Adelaide Liederkranz, hosted by the Tanunda Liedertafel and Tanunda Riflemen. Quarterly social gatherings were held at the Hotel Europe 1877, "Smoke socials" organised by Armbrüster. In that year "passive" (non-singing) members were first admitted, to

504-544: Was a significant venue in the history of the stage and cinema in South Australia . After a small predecessor of the same name on Franklin Street (built 1838), the Theatre Royal on Hindley Street was built in 1868. It hosted both stage performances and movies , passing through several changes of ownership before it was eventually demolished to make way for a multi-storey car park in 1962. The first "Theatre Royal" in Adelaide

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528-608: Was a small venue above the Adelaide Tavern in Franklin Street , managed by a Mr Bonnar, and was opened in May 1838. The first production staged there was Mountaineers, or, Love and Madness ( Colman ). Bonnar was succeeded as manager by Sampson Marshall. This was eclipsed in 1841 by the opening of the Queen's Theatre on Gilles Arcade, off Currie Street , and the old theatre was remodelled as

552-469: Was further enlarged and updated in 1914 under James Williamson , who reopened on 11 April that year and continued to run the theatre for around 50 years. William Pitt was commissioned by the manager George Tallis. Pitt's design included a proscenium arch in order to improve the acoustics, and lengthening of both the auditorium and the exterior facade . Interior decor was in Louis XV period style. In 1918

576-502: Was laid by owner of the property Henry Fuller on 8 January 1868, and the At the foundation ceremony, Fuller, then Mayor of Adelaide , said that it would replace the "inferior" Royal Victoria as Adelaide's principal theatre. Seating 1300, it opened as Adelaide's second major theatre. The first performance was held on 13 April 1868 ( Easter Monday ), a production of All that Glitters is not Gold by John Norton . Edgar Chapman became owner of

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