April 25th, 09

Although The Birmingham Triennial Music Festivals took place from 1784 to 1912. Music was specially composed, conducted or performed by Mendelssohn, Gounod, Sullivan, Dvorak, Coventry Accountants Bantock and Edward Elgar, who wrote four of his most famous choral pieces for Birmingham. Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius had its debut performance there in 1900.
Sage Birmingham Composers born in the city include Albert William Ketelbey and Andrew Glover.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

March 18th, 09

Birmingham's other city-centre music venues include Coventry Accountants The National Indoor Arena, which was opened in 1991, 02 Academy in Dale End which opened in 2000, The CBSO Centre, opened in 1997, Barfly in Digbeth and the Adrian Boult Hall, Dudley Accountants which was built along with Paradise Forum and Birmingham Central Library, at Birmingham Conservatoire.

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Birmingham has had a vibrant and varied musical history over the last century.Coventry Accountants Birmingham bands have made a major contribution to the musical culture of the United Kingdom, with many contemporary bands citing Birmingham bands as a major influence. In the 1960s, the "Brum Beat" era featured blues and early progressive rock bands, such as The Moody Blues. In the 1980s the reggae band UB40 were formed in Moseley while boy band Musical Youth lived in the Nechells part of Birmingham Coventry Accountants.

Europe's biggest music shop was in Birmingham called Woodroffes Musical Instruments. The city is often described as the birthplace of heavy metal music,[93] with Judas Priest, Coventry Accountants Black Sabbath and two members of Led Zeppelin being local. Then later on during the 80s bands such as Napalm Death, joined the Birmingham heavy metal scene. Tax Birmingham In the 1970s, members of The Move and The Idle Race formed the Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard. The 1970s also saw the rise of reggae and ska in the city with such bands as Steel Pulse, UB40, and The Beat, expounding racial unity with politically leftist lyrics and multiracial lineups, mirroring social currents in Birmingham at that time. Seminal 1980s pop band Duran Duran are also from Birmingham Coventry Accountants.

It is the home of the UK's longest-established local science fiction group, launched in 1971 (although there were earlier incarnations in the 1940s and 1960s) and which organises the annual sf event Novacon.

Jazz is popular in the city, and the Coventry Accountants annual Birmingham International Jazz Festival is the largest of its kind in the UK.[94] Venues for the festival are also located out of Birmingham in Solihull. It was first held in 1984.

West Midlands Birmingham The internationally-renowned City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's home venue is Symphony Hall. Coventry Accountants There is a City Organist; since 1834 only seven men have held this position. The current holder, Thomas Trotter, has been in post since 1983.[96] Weekly recitals have been given since the organ in Birmingham Town Hall was opened [97] but are now held in St. Philip's Cathedral, until the Town Hall organ opens in October 2007, following restoration. The Birmingham Royal Ballet[98] resides in the city as does the world's oldest vocational dance school, Elmhurst School for Dance.[99]