Born In Song
Mount Zion Heritage Chapel, Per Lane, HX2 8XG
Wednesday 27th May 2026
Music, Big Sings and Whitsuntide Revels
A Heritage Talk by David Glover – May 27th 7.00 pm
The musical life of the Halifax District in the 19th Century included an amazing variety of local talent. This enabled the foundation of the Halifax Quarterly Choral Society in 1818. Who were the prime movers in that enterprise? Which local soprano became known as the Calderdale Nightingale, and sang before Queen Victoria? Paganini, Strauss and Liszt once performed in Halifax and then of course there were those great Piece Hall ‘Sings’.
A Heritage Talk by David Glover – May 27th 7.00 pm
The musical life of the Halifax District in the 19th Century included an amazing variety of local talent. This enabled the foundation of the Halifax Quarterly Choral Society in 1818. Who were the prime movers in that enterprise? Which local soprano became known as the Calderdale Nightingale, and sang before Queen Victoria? Paganini, Strauss and Liszt once performed in Halifax and then of course there were those great Piece Hall ‘Sings’.
