Bolton Symphony Orchestra
Description: BCMCS is an amateur operatic and choral society comprising of a Youth Theatre, Choral, and Musical sections which give public performances throughout the year.
BCMCS comprises three sections - Musicals, Choral and Youth - and we always welcome new members, whatever you want to do.
At first, both the dramatic work and the musical show were staged in St. Edmund’s new school hall at Heaton in Bolton, but the increasing popularity of the musicals after the war led to the Musical Section moving to the Great Hall at Bolton Technical College in 1952. From 1963 onwards, the society began to perform musical works by composers such as Lehar, Rogers and Hammerstein, Romberg and many others, although the works of Gilbert and Sullivan still featured occasionally.
For three years during the 1960’s, the society also performed a pantomime each Christmas, but the dramatic work was discontinued in 1967, and it was not until 1973 that the society put on anything other than a musical show. The then President, Mr. Tom Arkwright, had suggested that the society’s Catholic roots should be recognized by singing a choral Mass by one of the great classical composers, and a new section of the society, the Choral Section, was founded. Its first work was Beethoven’s Mass in C, follo
Bolton Symphony Orchestra