"A scrupulously researched, well-written history...Highly recommended for larger collections."--Choice

"There have been earlier histories of the Royal Philharmonic Society, but Professor Ehrlich's is the most comprehensive and readable."--Sunday Telegraph

"His style is engagingly crisp and he enlivens his narrative with numerous cameos, as economical as they are entertaining."--The Times

"Cyril Ehrlich has admirably charted the fortunes, musical and financial, of a venerable institution....the book will reveal itself as a mine of memorable moments. It is attractively produced and conscientiously proof-read."--The Musical Times

"Cyril Ehrlich, doyen of social historians of music, has achieved a remarkable fusion: an entertaining, readable, chronological account packed with lively incident and vivid character sketches that at the same time gives a true picture of the stresses faced by a developing institution over nearly two centuries."--American Historical Review