[3] Halford made his public concert debut at Birmingham Town Hall in 1884, performing Ferdinand Hiller's 2nd Piano Concerto, conducted by Heap.
[5] In 1897, backed by a syndicate of 54 leading local citizens, he established George Halford's Orchestra,[6] which performed annual series of fortnightly concerts at Birmingham Town Hall for the next ten years.
[3] Halford's ambitions were to establish a permanent orchestra of a quality to rival any in the country, made up primarily of local musicians.
[3] His church music included anthems such as Remember not, Lord, our offences (1886) and The Souls of the Righteous (1915); a cantata The Paraclete (1891) and a Te Deum in D major.
[11] Recalling the concert in 1938 the conductor Henry Wood pronounced the work "excellent" and concluded "Birmingham has always taken pride in its music, and when the full history of its activities comes to be written the name of George Halford should not be overlooked.