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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, 1916
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1SYMPHONY CONCERTS
3that the Municipality decided to make the undertaking a permanent one, and the annual series of concerts have attained great importance, being given on Monday and Thursday afternoons during the season. Many centenaries and other anniversaries in musical history have been observed more carefully than has usually been the case in London, and very frequently composers have conducted their own works at the concerts, Mr. Godfrey filling the post of regular conductor with great distinction. M.
5BRADFORD.
7The Bradford Permanent Orchestra was founded in 1892, and is partly professional, partly amateur. The band is about eighty strong, and the post of conductor has been held successively by Mr. W. B. Sewell, Mr. A. E. Bartle, Dr. Cowen, and Mr. Allen Gill, the last of whom has been in office five years. The season 1907-8 included five concerts, at which works by most of the classical composers, and of modern musicians like Sibelius, Humperdinck, German, and York Bowen, were performed. The orchestra is a private and self-supporting institution. It is now usually engaged for the concerts of the Bradford Festival Choral Society. Among the conductors who have directed their own works have been Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir Hubert Parry, Sir C. V. Stanford, Sir Edward Elgar, and Mr. E. German. H. T.
9HARROGATE.
11Here also a permanent Municipal Orchestra has lately been formed and is now under the direction of Mr. Julian Clifford. On Wednesday afternoons, during a great part of the year, symphony concerts are given, and 'composers' afternoons' take place frequently. M.
13HULL.
15The Hull Symphony Orchestra consists of local players who are engaged at theatres and music-halls, so that the concerts are given always in the afternoon. They were established in 1906, and under the conductorship of Arthur Wallerstein have done good work.
17LEEDS.
19The Leeds Municipal Orchestra was organised in the autumn of 1903 by Mr. A. H. Fricker, organist of the Town Hall; the first concert was given on Oct. 17 of that year. The orchestra at first consisted of fifty of the best professional musicians in the immediate neighbourhood, and the number has since been increased to over sixty. It has no direct subsidy from public money, but as the conductor receives no further remuneration than his stipend as organist, and as the concerts take the place of the customary Saturday evening organ recitals, there is no expense for hall, lighting, etc., and the small charges made for admission (2d., 6d., and 1s.) have hitherto just sufficed to maintain the institution. The scheme for the season of 1907-8 consisted of ten concerts, at which symphonies by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Dvořák, together with orchestral pieces by Mozart, Weber, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Svendsen, Smetana, Sibelius, Debussy, Elgar, German, were given. Among the composers who have conducted their own works are Sir C. V. Stanford, Mr. E. German, Dr. Vaughan Williams, Mr. York Bowen, Mr. J. W. Nicholl, Mr. F. Cliffe, Mr. Havergal Brian, Dr. Bairstow, Mr. William Wallace, Mr. Joseph Holbrooke, Mr. Percy Godfrey, and Mr. F. K. Hattersley. H. T.
21SYMPHONY CONCERTS IN U.S. 799
23LIVERPOOL.
25For the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, see vol. ii. p. 754.
27MANCHESTER.
29For the Gentleman's Concerts and Hallé Concerts, see vol. iii. pp. 36-37.
31NEW BRIGHTON.
33For the excellent series of concerts organised at the Tower, New Brighton, by Mr. Granville Bantock, in 1897-1901, see vol. i. p. 181.
35SCOTLAND.
37See SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA, ante, p. 402.
39SYMPHONY CONCERTS IN THE UNITED STATES. Throughout the 18th century the concert life of America, so far as it existed in the principal cities of the Atlantic coast (such as New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Charleston), was in every particular a reflex of the concert life of London. Practically all the influences were English, and English they remained for a full century; the colonists, as soon as they were in a position to enjoy the embellishments of civilisation, sought them in their English manifestations. As an illustration it may be pointed out that 'Ranelagh Gardens' were opened in 1765, at which 'a complete band of music' was engaged, and 'Vaux Hall Gardens' in Charleston in 1767, and New York in 1769. As to the vigour with which instrumental music, still subordinate to vocal the world over, was cultivated in America under the auspices of organisations of amateurs and professionals corresponding to the Collegia musica of Germany, it may suffice here to say that concerts in which solos on the harpsichord, violin, oboe, bassoon, flute, and horn were played date back to the fourth decade of the 18th century; and that the symphonies of Haydn, Pleyel, Stamitz, Gyrowetz, and their fellows, the overtures of Handel, Gretry, Gossee, and others, as well as the concerti grossi of Corelli, figured largely on the programmes of the concerts given in New York and Philadelphia in
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