The oldest non-professional orchestra in Scotland, Glasgow Orchestral Society (GOS) are celebrating 150 years this weekend with a special show in the City Halls in the Merchant City this weekend.
The extraordinary concert will feature Beethoven's Symphony No 9, and taking place at the venue in Candleriggs it will be conducted by Stephen Broad.
Originally scheduled for November 2020, but postponed due to Covid-19, the audience will be entertained in the Grand Hall auditorium along with the 100-strong City of Glasgow Chorus, and four young singers, all rising stars of the classical musical and operatic worlds.
The postponed celebrations started in August 2022 with a party on The Glenlee Tall Ship and reached a high point earlier this month when the Right Hon The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Councillor Jacqueline McLaren invited the orchestra to a Civic Dinner in The Glasgow City Chambers to mark the monumental milestone.
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Founded in 1870, 30 years before the Kelvingrove Art Galleries was built and performing in what is now the Om Hindu Mandir in La Belle Place at Kelvingrove, it has grown from strength to strength, surviving 2 world wars and 2 pandemics, the ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918 to 1921, and the recent Covid pandemic.
From its original size as a chamber orchestra of around 20 musicians, there will be 87 payers on the platform next Saturday, as big as any of the full-time professional orchestras who perform there.
You can purchase tickets (from £5 - £16.80) from the website for the Saturday, March 25 concert which will take place from 7.30 pm until 10 pm.
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