A collection of 19 volumes of programmes from the Glasgow Choral Union, from 1874 to 1893.

Concert venues are not listed on programmes from 1874. Concerts took place in City Hall (1875-1877) and chiefly took place in St. Andrew's Hall (1879-1893). For the period 1877-1878, the venue is cited as "New Public Halls" or "Public Halls". However, it is possible that this venue was actually the recently built (completed 1877) St. Andrew's Hall.

The concerts featured oratorios, large-scale cantatas, orchestral music and occasionally chamber music.

There are a variety of amounts of programmes per season. However, the majority of seasons have at least 10 concerts per season; sometimes the numbering system for concerts was divided between "Orchestral Concerts" and "Choral Concerts". The bulk of each season took place from late November to January.

Arrangement:
The programmes are arranged chronologically.

1874 - 1893

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Not Specific

• Glasgow Choral Union -

• City Hall, Glasgow
• St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow

• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
• 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875

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The Centre for Performance History was created in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Department of Portraits and the Museum of Instruments (see the separate entry for the Museum. The College has acquired portraits throughout its history since 1883 and the Centre posseses the most comprehensive collection of portraits of musicians in the UK, amounting to some 346 original portraits and 10,000 prints and photographs. In addition to the iconographical collections and their documentation, the department houses other categories of source material - most notably the largest collection of concert programmes in this country, comprising some 600,000 items dating from 1780 to the present day.