In 1910 the Festival Chorus was drawn mainly from Leeds choirs, with many others from choirs in, for example, Dewsbury and Huddersfield. In the programme, a suitable level of decorum was maintained both in the list of singers and in the photographs, where massive hats were a necessity for the ladies, though soloists like Madame Clara Butt felt able to leave them off.
The programme contained the following summary:
(The Rachmaninov symphony referred to is his second; the composer destroyed the score of his first symphony after its disasterous première in 1897, though it has since been reconstructed from a set of orchestral parts for that performance.)
