Reid Orchestral Concert

Date: 
Thursday, March 10, 1938
Time: 
8.00 pm.
Season/No: 
75th session, 22nd season, 8th concert

Venue:

Participant(s): 

The Reid Choir (chorus-master, Dr Robert Head) - chorus
Quartet: The Edinburgh Singers
Marie Thomson
Catherine Mentiplay
John Tainsh
Neil Forsyth
Sir Donald Tovey - conductor
Kenneth Anderson - leader of the orchestra

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

1. Overture to The Occasional Oratorio ... Handel

2. "Sappho," Prelude for orchestra ... Granville Bantock

3. "Song of Destiny" (Schicksalslied), for chorus and orchestra (op. 53) ... Brahms

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4. Ninth symphony in D minor, op. 125 ... Beethoven

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
The Reid Symphony Orchestra
The Reid Choir
Orchestra/Chorus Listing: 
1937-1938 Reid Symphony Orchestra

Performance Type:

Programme: 
28-page booklet
Programme Notes: 

By D.F.T.

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

Programme booklet contains a "List of works performed by the Reid Symphony Orchestra (excluding solo and unaccompanied choral works)", together with an orchetral list of The Reid  Symphony Orchestra for the 1937-38 season: includes 15 first and 14 second violins; 10 violas; 6 cellos; and 6 basses.

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

Promoter:

Printer(s): 
David Macdonald Ltd., Edinburgh
Notes: 

This concert was broadcast at 20.05 hrs on BBC radio.