Royal Philharmonic Society announces bicentenary celebrations in UK and US

Highlights include a Royal Festival Hall concert at which the Philharmonia Orchestra will perform works by Mendelssohn, Dvořák and Brahms1813 was an auspicious year for music. Not only were Wagner and Verdi born, but in London a group of musicians met to form a society with what was then a radical vision: "To promote the performance in the most perfect manner possible, of the best … instrumental music, and to encourage an appreciation by the public in the art of music." Two hundred years lat...

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