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Birmingham Choral Union Concert Record Date Concert Composer Venue Conductor Soloists Accompaniment 16 March, 1891 Fair Rosamunde John Barnett Orchestra - 57 players Dr.Swinnerson Heap Chorus - 450 singers plus organ Programme cost 6d 25 March, 1892 Maritana W V Wallace Programme cost 1d 2 April, 1892 Messiah Handel 10 December, 1892 Maritana (excerpts) W V Wallace Noel Tide Thomas Facer 25 March, 1893 Maritana W V Wallace 10 March, 1894 Loreley (excerpts) Mendelssohn The Crusader Thomas Facer Chorus of 227 singers,35 orchestra members - no other details recorded 1 January, 1895 8th Series of Concerts. No further details available 12 October, 1895 Samson Handel Programme cost 1d 14 December, 1895 Noel Tide Thomas Facer Loreley Mendelssohn 22 February, 1896 Messiah Handel 1897 to 1898 - 10th, 11th & 12th 1 January, 1897 Series of Concerts. No further details available 21 October, 1899 Samson Handel 9 December, 1899 Messiah Handel 1900 to1903 - 14th, 15th & 16th Series of Concerts. No further 1 January, 1900 details available 23 January, 1904 Messiah Handel 18th Series of Concerts - no 1 January, 1905 details available 11 November, 1905 Gounod Night (excerpts) Gounod Advert in back of programme for Birmingham Choral & Orchestral Association (conductor J H Adams) to perform 'Faust' 6 December, 1905 Maritana W V Wallace 27 January, 1906 Messiah Handel 10 March, 1906 Eli Sir Michael Costa 1 1907 to 1913 - 20th to 26th Seris 1 January, 1907 of Concerts - No details available 24 January, 1914 Merrie England E German Birmingham Town Hall Richard Wassell C W Perkins (Organ) W E Longmore (Accompanist) Third C oncert of 27th Season 14 March, 1914 God's Time is the Best Bach Lilian Green Dettingen Te Deum Handel Olive Pank Wilfred Hudson Charles Knowles 16 October, 1915 Golden Legend Sullivan Birmingham Town Hall Richard Wassell Eva Rich BCU Orchestra Florence England C W Perkins (Organ) W J Ottey W E Longmore (Accompanist) Alfred Askey First Concert of the 29th Season 23 October, 1915 Choral & Orchestral Concert Various Birmingham Town Hall Richard Wassell Alfred Askey BCU Orchestra Massed Prize Choirs of 200 Male Voices plus Birmingham Choral Union Ladies Chour od 200 Voices 4 December, 1915 Christmas Oratorio Bach Birmingham Town Hall Richard Wassell Emilie Waldron BCU Orchestra Grace Ivell C W Perkins (Organ) Wilfred Hudson Harry Downing Miscellaneous concert including part-songs by Purcell, Bantock, German, Elgar, Sullivan & Handel - no 20 October, 1917 other details recorded Not known 23 February, 1918 Hiawatha's Departure Coleridge-Taylor Birmingham Town Hall Richard Wassell The orchestra also gave an excellent reading of Mendelssohn's overture 'The Hebrides' - Musical Times 23 March, 1918 National Anthem Birmingham Town Hall Richard Wassell Edith Evans C W Perkins (Organ) The Creation Haydn J A Hinde Hubert S Brown (Organ) Carmen (Prelude) Bizet James Howell Solos Various Last Concert of the 31st Season 16 November, 1918 A Ballad Concert Various Birmingham Town Hall Not known 2 Items included part-songs by Elgar, Gounod & Bantock 8 February, 1919 Elijah Mendelssohn Not known No other details recorded 1 March, 1919 Faust Gounod Birmingham Town Hall A.J.Cotton Arthur Cranmer Source: John D Smith, Hon. Archivist Conservatoire 15 March, 1919 Faust Gounod Not known No other details recorded 4 October, 1919 A Ballad Concert Various Not known Items included Bantock's 'Death of Morar' 8 November, 1919 Merrie England E German No other details recorded Not known The Musical Times Announced that 4 concerts would be given in the 1920 season, including 'Messiah' ; 'A Tale of Old Japan', 'Merrie England' & a ballad 1 January, 1920 concert. Not known 7 February, 1920 The Death of Morar Bantock Birmingham Town Hall M Zacharewitsch Michael Mullinar (Organ) A Wassell Concert Society The March of the Cameron Men Bantock performance 19 March, 1921 The Song of Hiawatha Coleridge - Taylor Birmingham Town Hall Richard Wassell Doris Watkins C W Perkins (Organ) Last Concert of the 34th Season Ernest Ludlow Samuel Saul 4 November, 1922 My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land Elgar Birmingham Town Hall Richard Wassell Emily Breare Arthur Cooke (Organ) Solos Various Second Concert of the 36th Season Geoffrey Dams Katrina Lund (Elocution) O Happy Eyes Elgar Summer Eve J L Hatton The Long Day Closes Sullivan Lecture: Songs, and how to Sing 15 November, 1922 Them Priory Rooms Richard Wassell 29 October, 1927 Elijah Mendelssohn Birmingham Town Hall Joseph H Adams Effie Quinton Miss G Stephens (Organ) See programme on www.birminghamchoralunion.org Bertram Phillips Herbert Parker Gertrude Stephens Doris Hamilton Howard Norton Frank Richards Joseph H Adams with 26 January, 1929 Aida Verdi Birmingham Town Hall Mr E Emilie Waldron J Edwards Doris Hamilton 3 Alys Tringham Cecil Cooke Samuel Saul James Howell Eric Bowler Edward Evesley 28 March, 1931 Judas Maccabaeus Handel Birmingham Town Hall Joseph H Adams Elizabeth Mellor Miss G Stephens (Organ) Evelyn Crees Bell Walker Leslie Bennett 11 February, 1933 The Creation Haydn Birmingham Town Hall Joseph H Adams Bessie Nicholls Miss G Stephens (Organ) Charles Hedges James Coleman 334th Concert - 50th Season 25 January, 1936 Aida Verdi Birmingham Town Hall Joseph H Adams Doris Watkins B'ham Choral & Orchestral Union Emme Northall Frank Sale Oswald Rogers Eric Bowler Gertrude Stephens Gilbert Winfield 343rd Concert - 53rd Season 7 March, 1936 Elijah Mendelssohn Birmingham Town Hall Joseph H Adams Blanche Allen Miss G Stephens (Organ) Emme Northall A Bell-Walker George Baker 344th Concert - 53rd Season 22 January, 1938 Carmen (Concert Version) Bizet Town Hall, Birmingham Victor Fleming May Devitt BCU Orchestra 349th Concert - 55th Series - Chorus and Orchestra of 250 Elsie Small Dorothy Clark Gertrude Stephens Morgan Jones Frank Wilson Harry Brindle Oswald Rogers 4 11 March, 1939 Damnation of Faust Berlioz Birmingham Town Hall Victor Fleming Isabel Rhys-Parker 352nd Concert - 56th Season Robert Naylor Robert Parker Alexander Hadley 27 January, 1940 The Music Makers Elgar Not known Te Deum Kodaly Choral Suite (Sadko) Rimsky-Korsakov No other concert details recorded 28 November, 1944 Elijah Mendelssohn Birmingham Town Hall Appleby Matthews Dorothy Tarren Lily Kettlewell Ronald Bristol Rev Noel Hutchcroft Raymond Price (Y) 26 December, 1945 Elijah Mendelssohn Birmingham Town Hall Appleby Matthews Ada Alsop G D Cunningham (Organ) Gladys Ripley Jan van der Gucht Roy Henderson 20 November, 1946 Messiah Handel Birmingham Town Hall Appleby Matthews Joan Taylor BCU Orchestra Marjorie Thomas Alex Cohen (Leader) Ronald Bristol Tom Williams 2 April, 1947 Messiah Handel Birmingham Town Hall Not known B Allington (Trumpet) BCU Orchestra Alex Cohen (Leader) G D Cunningham (Organ) C S Christopher (Continuo) 26 March, 1948 Messiah Handel Birmingham Town Hall Appleby Matthews Gertrude Stephens BCU Orchestra Daisy Neal C S Christopher (Continuo) Luther Thomas G D Cunningham (Organ) John Hereward Arthur Matthews (Trumpet) 27 October, 1948 The Creation Haydn Birmingham Town Hall Appleby Matthews Jean Mountford BCU Orchestra Neville Hazlewood Alex Cohen (Leader) Charles Ledger 28 November, 1948 Messiah Handel Birmingham Town Hall Appleby Matthews Elsie Suddaby T W North (Organ) Muriel Brunskill BCU Orchestra David Lloyd Alex Cohen (Leader) Ronald Stear Arthur Matthews (Trumpet) 5 11 December, 1948 Messiah Handel Coventry Methodist, Appleby Matthews Gertrude Stephens James Lile (Organ) Small Heath Laura Pain Maurice Robinson John Ryder 15 April, 1949 Messiah Handel Birmingham Town Hall Appleby Matthews Ada Alsop C S Christopher (Organ) Daisy Neal Neville Hazlewood David Franklin 7 May, 1949 Dream of Gerontius Elgar Birmingham Town Hall Appleby Matthews Marion Hayes T W North (Organ) Heddle Nash The death was announced of T. Appleby Matthews (1884 - 1949), Conductor of the Birmingham Choral Union Alec Shanks 20 November, 1949 Messiah Handel Birmingham Town Hall H.W. Stubbington Margaret Field Hyde T W North (Organ) Mary Jarred David Lloyd Henry Cummings 7 December, 1949 The Creation Haydn Birmingham Town Hall Denis Crosby Joan Taylor H W Stubbington (Organ) Edward Parr Henry Cummings 7 April, 1950 Messiah Handel Birmingham Town Hall Denis Crosby Jean Mountford BCU Orchestra Sara Buckley Herbert Lumby (Leader) Stephen Manton H W Stubbington (Organ) Harry Shaw C S Christopher (Continuo) James Mason (Trumpet) 3 December, 1950 Messiah Handel Town Hall, Birmingham Denis Crosby Elsie Suddaby BCU Orchestra Nancy Thomas Ernest Element (Leader) Parry Jones Philip Moore (Organ) Owen Brannigan H W Stubbington (Continuo) James Mason (Trumpet) 12 December, 1950 Christmas Oratorio Bach Birmingham Town Hall Denis Crosby Jean Frances Hall BCU Orchestra Mary Jarred Herbert Lumby (Leader) Bradbridge White T W North (Organ) Henry Cummings H W Stubbington (Continuo) 6 Birmingham Choral Union Concert Record Date Concert Composer Venue Conductor Soloists Accompaniment 23 March, 1951 Messiah Handel Birmingham Town Hall Denis Crosby Ceinwen Rowlands BCU Orchestra Marion Hayes Herbert Lumby (Leader) Neville Hazlewood T W North (Organ) Ronald Stear C S Christopher (Continuo) James Mason (Trumpet) 11 July, 1951 Dream of Gerontius Elgar Leeds Town Hall Maurice Miles Marjorie Thomas Webster Booth Stanley Clarkson 4 October, 1951 Overture in D Minor Handel Birmingham Town Hall Denis Crosby Isobel Baillie CBSO Mass in C Harrison Astra Desmond Norris Stanley (Leader) Premiere performance of Mass in 'C' by Juluis Harrison as part of The Festival of British Music. Signed programme
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