Drawing depicting three magpies on oak branches and acorns. Text: "The Magpie Madrigal Society request the honour of company at St James's Hall, Picadilly on Wednesday June 4. 1902, at 8.30 pm member"
The Magpie Madrigal Society (1886-1911), formerly Minstrels Society, was an amateur society, predominantly specialised in the practice and performance of unaccompanied music of all ages and schools. These included mainly madrigals from sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and part-songs.
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