| Description | 12 programmes for concerts held at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton.
* A Reginald Foort (Britain’s favourite broadcasting organist) concert on 15 March 1942.
* A Reginald Foort (Britain’s favourite broadcasting organist) concert on 10 May 1942.
* An operatic concert and organ recital by the following artists on 9 August 1942: soprano: Vaudrey Darby ; tenor: Harold Green ; pianoforte: Madame Parkes Darby ; organ: Arnold Richardson.
* A popular concert by the following artists on 1 November 1942: soprano: Anne Zielgler ; tenor: Webster Booth ; pianoforte: Ivor Newton.
* A Carnegie Trust Concert on 3 January 1943 featuring the Hallé Concerts Society / Orchestra (conductor: Dr. Malcolm Sargent). The concert included the following pieces of music: God Save The King -- Suite from the Music for the Royal Fireworks / Handel -- Symphony no. 101 in D minor (The Clock) / Haydn -- Ballet Suite - "L'Oiseau de Feu" / Stravinsky -- Symphony no. 4 in E minor, op. 98 / Brahms.
* A brass band concert on 15 October 1944, featuring performances by: Foden's Motor Works (director: Fred Mortimer) -- Black Dyke Mills (director: Arthur O. Pearce) -- Fairey Aviation Works (director: Harry Mortimer).
* A concert held on the 28 May 1945, in which the City of Birmingham Orchestra (conducted by George Weldon and featuring soloist Dame Myra Hess and leader Norris Stanley) performed the following pieces of music: The National Anthem -- Overture - The Mastersingers / Wagner -- Chanson de Matin / Elgar -- Overture - Fingal's Cave / Mendelssohn -- Piano Concert in A minor / Schumann -- Sheep May Safely Graze / Bach, Walton -- Symphony no. 7, in A / Beethoven.
* A programme for Mozart’s Don Giovanni, co-produced at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, by the Midland Opera Company and the Midland Symphony Orchestra between 29-30 May 1945. This programme has been deliberately removed from the opera programmes in this collection in order to show the breadth of what was staged at Wolverhampton’s Civic Hall the 1940s.
* A concert held on 13 September 1946, in which the City of Birmingham Orchestra (conduced by George Weldon and featuring soloist Elizabeth Schumann and leader Norris Stanley) performed the following pieces of music: Overture - Beatrice and Benedict / Berlioz -- Sleepers, Wake / Bach -- Tone Poem - Tintagel / Arnold Bax -- Songs: "Voi che Sapete" (Marriage of Figaro) ; "Batti, batti" (Don Giovanni) ; Wiegenlied / Mozart -- Songs: Geheimes ; Nacht und Traume ; Lechen und Weinen ; Die Forelle / Schubert -- Variations on an original theme - Enigma / Elgar.
* A programme for Handel’s Messiah, co-produced at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, by the Riddick String Orchestra and Choir of 35 voices (conducted by Dr. Percy Young) on 15 December 1947.
* A concert held on 24 October 1951, in which the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (lead by David McCallum and conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham) performed the following pieces of music: God Save The King -- Overture - Der Freischutz / Weber -- Symphony no. 103 (The Drum Roll) / Haydn -- Minneleid (Scenes Historique) / Sibelius -- Karelia March / Sibelius -- Symphony no. 6 in F. (Pastoral) / Beethoven.
* A concert held on 29 November of an unspecified year, in which the Bournemouth Philharmonic Orchestra (lead by John Greenstone, conducted by Rudolph Dunbar, and featuring soloists Rawicz and Landauer) performed the following pieces of music: Overture, Oberon / Weber -- Petite Suite de Concert, op. 77 / Coleridge -Taylor -- Rawicz and Landauer-Two Pianos: Nutcracker Suite / Tschaikovsky ; Voices of Spring / Strauss ; Rhapsody in Blue / Gershwin -- Symphony - From the New World / Dvorak.
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