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ASO Heritage
Orchestral activity in South Australia before 1900

Miss Lazar's Grand Evening concert
One of the first concerts involving some orchestral pieces - 1848

Opening of White's Assembly room
First concert

Whites Assemble Rooms 1928
Venue for the first major performance in Adelaide:- Handel's Messiah & Alexander's Feast 1859

The musical Gardiner Family 1878

Blind musicians 1880

Theatre Royal Orchestra 1888

German Orchestra 1890

Adelaide Musical Association
Concert held 16 February 1889 Exhibition Building, Frederic Cowen conducting

Orchestra Quorn 1893

Heinicke's Grand Orchestra 1893

Orchestra Mt Gambier 1894


Heinicke's Orchestra advert 1893
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