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GLASGOW CHORAL UNION.
Instituted 1843.
David Ferguson, president ; Peter Mansou, vice-
president; C. B. Aikman, secretary; James T.
Taylor, treasurer ; Jas. Buchanan, librarian; Robt.
Cowan, convener of ladies' committee ; David Fer-
guson, Peter Morrison, C. B. Aikman, James T.
Taylor, James Buchiinan, Robert Cowan, J. D.
Smith, John Harrow, Wm. Meiklejohn, and J. M.
Watson, members of council.
Henry A. Lambeth, conductor; W. M. Foster,
leader of orchestra; George Jamieson, officer.
The Choral Union was formed in 1855 by tlie
araalgamation of the Glasgow Musical Association,
instituted in 1813, and the Glasgow Harmonic
Society, instituted in 1S50. Including chorus and
orchestra, it numbers about 500 members. The
meetings are held in the Lesser City Hall, South
Albion Street, on the evenings of Monday, Tues-
day, and Wednesday in each week during the
season. The part practisings of the chorus fake
place on Mondays— soprano and alto, tenor and bass
alternately ; general rehearsals, chorus and orchestra
combined, on Wednesdays ; orchestra alone on
Tuesdays.
The object of the Union is the cultivation of a
taste for classical music, and for this purpose frequent
public performances are given, in addition to the
weekly meetings. The qualifications for membership
are a good voice and ear, or knowledge of an instru-
ment, combined with the ability to read music at
sight. A committee meets monthly to test applicants
for admission, who must previously mako written
application to the secretary. Gentlemen pay an
annual subscription of 5s. Tickets in force for one
year from date of entry.
The Uuiou receives subscriptions entitling to
tickets at four concerts during the season on the
terms stated in undernoted excerpt from rules : —
SECTION III. — SUBSCRIBERS.
1. Ladies or gentlemen may subscribe to the con-
certs by an annual payment, which shall entitle each
subscriber to two reserved places at four concerts
given by the Union during the currency of the sub-
scription.
2. The subscribers will be entitled to attend only
at the four principal concerts usuallj' given by the
Union, as under : — -
Two (morning and evening) on 1st January.
One in February, March, or April.
One in October or November.
3. Subscriptions will be received at two rates : at
£1 lis. 6d. for reserved places in principal part of
concert room, and at £1 Is. for second seats — in all
cases payable in advance.
4. Subscribers may enter at any time during the
year (except when lists are full, token they are ad-
mitted as vacancies occur, and according to priority
of application^.
5. The council may authorise subscribers to attend
or participate in the practisings of the Union ; but
such authority shall not be effectual beyond the
session in which it has been granted.
6. Should the Union at any time decide on con-
ducting or participating in a musical festival, the
admission of subscribers shall be suspended at any
time, and for such period as the council may deter-
mine ; and the proportion of current subscriptions
then applicable to any of the four concerts to which
subscribers have the right of admission, shall be
repaid.
BRIDGETON CHORAL SOCIETY.
Hugh M'Nabb, conductor.
James Hannan, Geo. Wilson, Rev. Geo. Simpson,
John Burns, James Miller, patrons ; Councillor
Wm. Rae Arthur, honorary president; Councillor
James Thomson, honorary vice-president; Gilbert
Campbell, president; W. D. Davidson, vice-president;
W. M. Guthrie, treasurer and librarian ; Robert M.
Proctor, ladies'-convener, John Thomson, organist,
T. M. M'Gibbon, Chas. Proctor, Henry Murray,
William Lyle, and John Gay, members of committee ;
James Clark, 3 Harvie Street, Brldgeton, secretary.
The object of the society is the cultivation of a
taste for classical music in the district, by the study
and performance of the works of the best composers.
The weekly meetings are held in Bridgeton Parish
School-room (upper), 87 Old Dalmarnock Road,
every Friday evening at 8.15.
Applicants are admitted at any ordinary meeting
of the society, if approved by the conductor and two
members of committee, such application having been
made previously in v/riting to the secretary.
Gentlemen pay an annual subscription of 23. 6d.
The present subject of study is Handel's " Dettingen
Te-Deum."
GLASGOW PRECENTORS' ASSOCIATION.
Instituted, March, 1861.
Robert D. Jamieson, president ; George Thomson,
vice-president; A. Martin Muir, secretary ; Archd.
Goold, treasurer ; James D. Reid, librarian ; Robert
Nicol, Edward Law, Gilbert M'Kenzie, members of
committee.
Precentors of all evangelical denominations, and
young men desirous of becoming precentors, are eli-
gible as members of the association. The meetings
are held in White's Temperance Hotel, Candleriggs,
on the first Monday evening of each, month, at a
quarter past 8 o'clock, when essays are read, and
matters discussed connected with psalmody.
NEWSPAPER OFFICES, LIBSAEIES, AND NEWS-ROOMS.
ROYAL EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM,
Queen Street,
Receives regularly all the London, English, Provin-
cial, Scotch, and Irish newspapers ; also. Commercial
Lists, French, German, Colonial, Canton, and Ameri-
can papers, with all the leading Reviews, Magazines,
&c. Open daily from 8 morniag till 10 evening.
Strangers who are introduced by Subscribers, not
charged, unless they attend for more than four weeks.
Officers in garrison are permitted the free use of the
room.
Chairman, John Henderson; directors, L. Robert-
son, James M'Cleland, Archibald Smith, John
Henderson, Robert Aitken, Robert Black, W. A.
Anderson, James White, William Euing, Robert
Chrystal, Nathaniel Stevenson, Robt. Walker, Robt.
M'Clure, Richard Kidston, and John White;
secretary and treasurer, Robert Stevenson.