Saturday Night Concert

Date: 
Saturday, December 29, 1945
Time: 
7.00 pm.
Season/No: 
1945-46 season, 12th concert

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Dr John Fairbairn - leader of the orchestra
Muir Mathieson - guest conductor

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

1. Trumpet voluntary ... Purcell

2. Overture: "The Hebrides" ... Mendelssohn

3. Solemn Melody ... Walford Davies

4. Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67 ... Beethoven

       Allegro con brio
       Andante con moto
       Scherzo: allegro
       Allegro

INTERVAL

5. Overture-fantasia: "Romeo and Juliet" ... Tchaikowsky

6. Valse Triste ... Sibelius

7. Fantasia on Scottish melodies ... arr. Sir Henry Wood

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
The Reid Symphony Orchestra

Performance Type:

Programme: 
4-page programme
Programme Notes: 

There are no programme notes.

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

On p.4: programmes for a special concert on 2 January 1946 and for the 13th Saturday night concert of the series on 5 January 1946.

[Reid] Professor: 
Newman, Sidney T. M. 1906-1971
Notes: 

The Trumpet voluntary by Purcell performed on this occasion is likely to have been an arrangement for trumpet and orchestra by Henry Wood of 'The Prince of Denmark's March', a composition now attributed to Jeremiah Clarke.