Reid Orchestral Concert

Date: 
Saturday, January 19, 1918
Time: 
3.00 pm
Season/No: 
Second season/third concert
Participant(s): 

The Reid Orchestra

Donald Francis Tovey - solo pianist and conductor

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

1.  Overture: "The Hebrides" ... Mendelssohn

2.  Concerto in C minor for pianoforte and orchestra (Köchel's catalogue, no. 491) ... Mozart
  Solo pianoforte- Professor Donald Francis Tovey

3.  Pianoforte solos:-
   Nocturne in A major ... John Field
   Scherzo in C sharp minor, op. 39 ... Chopin

4.  Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 ... Beethoven

Group/Ensemble: 

Performance Type:

Programme: 
16-page booklet
Programme Notes: 

Programme notes by D. F. T.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Subscriptions for the series of six concerts, 28/-, 20/6, 12/-, 7/6; Single concert Tickets: 5/9, 4/9, 3/3, 2/4; Programme Price: sixpence
Publicity and Reviews: 

The Reid Orchestral Concerts 1917-1918- Second season
The subscriptions for the series of six concerts will be:
Reserved area and front row of gallery, 25/- plus £3/- (Government tax) = £28/-
Reserved gallery and side seats, 18/- plus 2/6 (Government tax) = 20/6
Unreserved gallery and side seats, 10/6 plus 1/6 (Government tax) = 12/-
Unreserved under gallery, 6/6 plus 1/- (Government tax) = 7/6
Last year's subscribers will have the option of retaking their seats up to Monday, November 12th.  New subscribers should make immediate application.  Orders for seats by post will be immediately attended to, and seats selected in the best available positions.  Subscriptions are payable in advance.  Tickets for single concerts will be on sale on Saturday, 24th November.
Tickets available from Messrs Paterson & Sons, 27 George Street, Edinburgh.  Telegrams "Music, Edinburgh", Telephone Central 97

 

A review of this concert, written by William Saunders, was published in the London Musical Standard on 26 January 1918
This review confirms that Tovey directed the Mozart concerto from the keyboard, "apart from the somewhat distracting antics of the pianist-conductor, its success was such as to justify a general adoption of this duality of function whenever a competent conductor-executant can be found."

Printer(s): 
David Macdonald, 74 Hanover Street, Edinburgh