by R.V. Pringle (October 2026)
In 1908 the Aberdeen Choral Union issued a 192-page book to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
This was a mixture of history and anecdote with contributions by, amongst others,
Charles Sanford Terry, Frederic Cowen, and Sir John Frederick Bridge, conductor of the Royal Choral Society.
The extended (97-page) history was supplied by its then director James Pratt who also edited the publication.
To help finance the publication local businesses were invited to advertise within its pages, and over forty of them did:
And finally . . .