Professor Tovey's Sunday Concert

Date: 
Sunday, January 20, 1924
Time: 
8.15 pm.
Season/No: 
1923-1924, 6th concert

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Miss Trixie Lees - vocalist
The Edinburgh String Quartet
       Watt Jupp
       J. M. Begbie
       J. Fairbairn
       Bernard Beers
Professor Donald Francis Tovey - pianoforte

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

I. String quartet, in C major (op. 76), no. 3 ... Haydn

II. Songs

     (a) "Thou art risen, my beloved" ... S. Coleridge-Taylor

     (b) "Love went a-riding" ... Frank Bridge

III. Allegro for string quartet ... Schubert

IV. Songs

      (a) "Morning hymn" ... George Henschel

      (b) "Hear my prayer, O Lord" ... Anton Dvořák

V. Trio in B flat (op. 97) ... Beethoven

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
The (New) Edinburgh (String) Quartet

Performance Type:

Programme: 
8-page programme
Programme Notes: 

The programme notes aren't signed but are probably by Tovey.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Programme Price: threepence
Publicity and Reviews: 

On the inside back page - dates (and sketch programmes for the first two) for four further Sunday concerts on 27 January, 3, 10 and 17 February 1924. The piano used in the concert is advertised as a 'Bösendorfer grand pianoforte' (p.6), while the outside back page carries an advertisement for Paterson, sons & co. music shop.

[Reid] Professor: 
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940

Promoter:

Notes: 

The progamme makes clear that the Schubert string quartet movement is the quartet with only one finished movement, rather than a single movement from a completed work.