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From: "Jill Blee" <>
Subject: twilight talks
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:45:06 -0600


The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute

Twilight Talks

Autumn Session



Stars

of the

Opera and Concert Stage

Revisit

Ballarat

via the

Gramaphone




John Semmens is a collector of gramophone records and a founding member of the Mechanical Musical Society of Australia and the Music Roll Society.


In this talk he will share with us the stories and the music of some of the internationally famous tenors and baritones who visited Ballarat to give concerts in the early decades of the twentieth century.







Ballaarat Mechanics Institute,

Sturt Street, Ballarat

June 4, 2004

5.30 - 6.30pm - refreshments at 5.00pm

Cost: $5 per talk or $25 for all six talks in the Autumn Session







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