Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was a professional
The orchestra was founded as a self-governing organisation run on cooperative lines by musicians from George Halford's Orchestra,[2] which had been performing annual series of concerts in Birmingham since 1897.[3] George Halford remained the new orchestra's Music Director, though he would only conduct half of their concerts.[4] The new body included fifty of the musicians from the previous organisation.[5]
The inaugural concert took place in
The orchestra also gave popular Saturday night concerts at the Town Hall that continued until 1918,[8] and performed widely alongside many different choral societies with conductors including Edward Elgar, Henry Coward and George Robertson Sinclair.[5]
Although there was no institutional connection between the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the later City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,[5] fifteen of the players who founded the earlier organisation in 1906 would also play with the later orchestra when it was established in 1920.[9]
References
- ^ Handford 2006, pp. 215, 217.
- ^ a b Handford 2006, p. 215.
- ^ Harlow 1999, p. 49.
- ^ Harlow 1999, p. 53.
- ^ a b c d King-Smith 1995, p. 12.
- ^ Handford 2006, pp. 215–216.
- ^ Handford 2006, pp. 218–219.
- ^ Handford 2006, p. 217.
- ^ Handford 2006, p. 216.
Bibliography
- Handford, Margaret (2006). Sounds Unlikely: Music in Birmingham. Studley: Brewin Books. ISBN 1858582873.
- Harlow, Martin (1999). "Mr Halford's Orchestral Concerts 1897-1907. Conductor at Large". The Musical Times. 140 (1867). Musical Times Publications Ltd.: 49–53. JSTOR 1193895.
- King-Smith, Beresford (1995). Crescendo! 75 years of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. London: Methuen. ISBN 0413697401.