The programmes detailed below were not part of the society's regular schedule of Friday meetings but were "one-off" events hels at various venues in Nelson.
A brief history of the gramophone record, including comparisons between old and new recordings of the same work.
| Topic | Music |
| Historic Occasions | Part of the Gerald Moore farewell concert Hoffnung Music Festival 1956: Haydn's "Surprise" symphony |
| Familiarisation with Difficult Music | Bartok - String Quartet No.5 (3rd mvt) |
| Music for Moderns | The Beach Boys: "Good Vibrations" |
| Interpretations Compared | Beethoven - Symphony No.7 (3rd mvt) conducted by Toscanini and by Furtwängler |
| Past Performances Preserved | Sir Thomas Beecham - Overture: "Il Seraglio" Victor Maurel - "Quand'ero Paggio" (Verdi's "Falstaff") Dinu Lipatti - Chopin Waltzes |
| The Spoken Word | Dylan Thomas reads Dylan Thomas - "Do not go gentle into that good night" |
| The Composer on Record | Stravinsky conducts, Marilyn Horne sings: "Three Souvenirs" (composed 1913, orchestrated 1930) Vaughan Williams on the recording of his 6th symphony with Boult and the L.P.O. |
| Super Stereo - Engineered for effect | Ted Heath and his Music: "Tisket-a-Tasket" |
| Large-scale works, rarely heard live | Berlioz: Requiem Mass (Dies Irae) |
| Opera on Record | La Bohème: "Lovely Maid in the Moonlight" |
| Composer | Music | Presenter: |
| Eric Coates | "Knightsbridge" March (beginning only) | |
| Bliss | Flourish for two brass orchestras - "Greetings to a City" | Derek Haslam |
| Haydn | Symphony No.93 (2nd mvt) | Derek Haslam |
| A selection of songs | "London" (Vaughan Williams), "Sing Love is Blind", "Where the Bee Sucks", "Cherry Ripe" | Margaret Dennison |
| Vaughan Williams | "London" Symphony (1st mvt) | Arthur Pearson |
| Elgar | Overture "Cockaigne" | John Singleton |
| Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on "Greensleeves" | Arthur Pearson |
| Holborne | Galliard | John Singleton |
| Gilbert & Sullivan | "The Yeomen of the Guard" (excerpt) | Arthur Pearson |
| Mendelssohn | "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (scherzo) | Derek Haslam |
| Handel | Coronation anthem "Zadok the Priest" (scherzo) | Arthur Pearson |
The programme celebrates the tercentenary of J.S.Bach, G.F.Handel and Domenico Scarlatti, all of whome were born in 1685.
| Topic | Music |
| Bach | Magnificat in D major (opening chorus only) |
| Handel | Arrival of the Queen of Sheba |
| Scarlatti | Harpsichord sonatas in D minor & G major |
| Handel | Organ concerto No.13 in F ("The Cuckoo and the Nightingale") |
| Handel | Coronation Anthem "Zadok the Priest" |
| Bach | Suite No.3 in D (Overture and Air) |
| Handel | "E pur cosi in un giorno" ("Julius Caesar") |
| Handel | "Where'ere you walk" ("Semele") |
| Bach | Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor |
| Topic | Music |
| Beethoven | Overture "Egmont" |
| Mozart | Overture "The Marriage of Figaro" |
| Beethoven | Sonata No.8 in C min - "Pathétique" (2nd mvt) |
| Beethoven | "Absceulicher!" ("Fidelio") |
| Beethoven | Symphony No.3 in E flat - "Eroica" (1st mvt) |
| Schubert | "Ständchen", "Ungeduld" (Die Schöne Müllerin"), "Gretchen am Spinnrade" |
| Haydn | String Quartet Op.76/5 (2nd mvt) |
| Beethoven | Symphony No.9 in D minor (Finale) |
A programme for the bicentenary of the French Revolution, which commenced with the fall of the Bastille in 1789. All the Music played is associated with revolution in some way. The Auber, Bellini and Rossini operas all involve the overthrow of tyranny or of an occupying power, the Shostakovich commemorates the abortive revolution of 1905 and the Berlioz symphony is an occasional piece written for the re-interrment (in 1840) of the patriots who died in the 1830 revolution which deposed the reactionary Charles X.
| Topic | Music |
| Rouget de Lisle, arr. Berlioz | The "Marseillaise" (all seven verses of it!) |
| Schumann | Carnival Jest from Vienna (From beginning until after the "Marseillaise" quotation |
| Auber | Overture "Masaniello" |
| Bellini | "Ite sul colle, O Druidi" ("Norma") |
| Rossini | Overture "William Tell" |
| Shostakovich | Symphony No.11 (3rd mvt - "In Memoriam") |
| Berlioz | Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale (complete) |
At this time a move from Nelson Library to Hodge House Community Centre as a location for the society's meetings was being considered, and this programme was held as a "trial run". The wide range of items was chosen to test the room acoustics and, although the music itself was much enjoyed, the members voted against the move.
| Topic | Music |
| Schubert | "Ständchen" |
| Beethoven | String Quartet No.9, Op.59/3 (Finale) |
| Telemann | Suite in A min for Recorder & Strings (Minuet, Réjouissance) |
| Sibelius | Lemminkäinen Legends ("The Swan of Tuonela", "Lemminkäinen's Homeward Journey") |
| Bruckner | Organ works: "Perg" Prelude, Prelude in E flat, Postlude in D minor) |
| Handel | "Messiah" ("Thou shalt break them" "Hallelujah") |