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Forty outings


Procol Harum Orchestral Concerts (thanks, Frans)

Date Place Conductor Orchestra Choir

6 July 1969

Stratford, Ontario

Lawrence Smith Stratford Festival Orchestra Festival Rock Chorus

18 November 1971

Edmonton, Canada

 Lawrence Leonard Edmonton Symphony Orchestra da Camera Singers

22 September 1972

The Rainbow, London,

Guy Woolfenden Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London Chorale

29 September 1972

Vienna, Austria
(European tour, general report;
signed tour programme)

Eberhard Schoener Munich Symphonic Orchestra Toelzer Boys' Choir

30 September 1972

Winterthur, Switzerland

Eberhard Schoener Munich Symphonic Orchestra Toelzer Boys' Choir

2 October 1972

Nurnberg, Germany (ticket here)

Eberhard Schoener Munich Symphonic Orchestra Toelzer Boys' Choir

3 October 1972

Stuttgart, Germany

Eberhard Schoener Munich Symphonic Orchestra Toelzer Boys' Choir

4 October 1972

Munich, Germany

Eberhard Schoener Munich Symphonic Orchestra Toelzer Boys' Choir

5 October 1972

Frankfurt, Germany

Eberhard Schoener Munich Symphonic Orchestra Toelzer Boys' Choir

21 September 1973

Hollywood Bowl, LA

Isaiah Jackson Los Angeles Philharmonic Roger Wagner Chorale

29 May 1992

Edmonton, Canada David Hoyt
 
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra The Greenwood Singers

30 May 1992

Edmonton, Canada

David Hoyt
 
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra The Greenwood Singers

8 February 1996

London Barbican

Nicholas Dodd London Symphony Orchestra Chameleon Arts Chorus

17 September 2000

Guildford, Surrey

David Gibson The New London Sinfonia The Occam Singers

17 June 2001

Manchester UK

Nicholas Dodd  The Hallé Orchestra The Hallé Choir
19 August 2006 Ledreborg, Denmark David Firman Danish National Concert Orchestra Danish Radiokoret.
20 August 2006 Ledreborg, Denmark David Firman Danish National Concert Orchestra Danish Radiokoret.
30 June 2007 Dalhalla, Sweden David Firman Gävle Symphony
Orchestra
DalaSinfoniettans
Choir
9 November 2010 Edmonton, Canada William Eddins Edmonton Symphony Orchestra da Camera Singers
10 November 2010 Edmonton, Canada William Eddins Edmonton Symphony Orchestra da Camera Singers
4 December 2010 Wilmington, Delaware, USA David Firman Delaware Symphony Orchestra  OperaDelaware Chorus
14 January 2011 Copenhagen, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
15 January 2011 Copenhagen, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
16 January 2011 Copenhagen, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
18 January 2011 Aalborg, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
20 January 2011 Vejle, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
21 January 2011 Vejle, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
22 January 2011 Aarhus, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
23 January 2011 Aarhus, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
8 March 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
9 March 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
12 March 2013 Vejle, Denmark Henrik Vagn Christensen The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
15 March 2013 Aalborg, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
16 March 2013 Aarhus, Denmark David Firman The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
5 April 2013 Wuppertal, Germany David Firman Sinfonie-Orchester Wuppertal

Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke

6 April 2013 Wuppertal, Germany David Firman Sinfonie-Orchester Wuppertal

Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke

10 July 2014 Ottawa, Canada David Firman The National Arts Centre Orchestra The Lee Hayes VOX Choir
24 November 2014 London, England and here David Firman BBC Symphony Orchestra
(picture)
Crouch End
Festival Chorus
3 March 2017 London, England David Firman Senbla Concert Orchestra English Chamber Choir
9 October 2018 London, England David Firman Senbla Concert Orchestra English Chamber Choir

See also Brooker and Procol music with orchestra in the Rock meets Classic series

See also Songs played in symphonic concerts since the start of the 21st century


James Weir on David Bedford, in Contemporary Composers, edited by Bran Morton & Pamela Collins (St James Press, Chicago & London, 1992)

[there are] ... a number of works from the early 1970s, in which Bedford combines amplified rock instrumentation with acoustic instruments. Such experiments were to become a music industry joke within a very few years, but for a time it was very fashionable to pit rock bands against symphony orchestras (Deep Purple, Procol Harum) but Bedford's work in this direction was more than an imaginative extension of a banal marketing ploy.


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