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Performance TitleLondon Ballad Concerts (Fifty-Third Season 1918-1919) - Tenth Concert
Performance Date22 March 1919
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersMiss Astra Desmond,
Mr Ivor Foster,
Miss Flora Woodman,
Mr Herbert Cave,
Miss Phyllis Lett,
Miss Carrie Tubb,
Miss Dorothy Davies,
Miss Gladys Palmer,
Mr Topliss Green - vocals,
W H Squire - violoncello,
Mr J A Meale - organ
Secondary PerformersMr S Liddle,
Mr Berkeley Mason
ChoirsThe Gresham Singers
Set ListOrgan Solo: 'March for a Festival', W. T. Best (J A Meale),
'June', Roger Quiller (Astra Desmond),
'Cobblin' (A Cornish Haul), Wilfrid Sanderson (Ivor Foster),
'La Superbetta', De Fesch, arr. A L (Flora Woodman),
'Shepherd, Thy Demeanor Vary', arr. by H Lane Wilson (Flora Woodman),
'I Hear A Thrush At Eve', C Wakefield Cadman (Herbert Cave),
Violoncello Soli: 'Minuet', Handel (W H Squire),
'Cradle Song', Schubert (W H Squire),
'Requiem', Graham Peel (Phyllis Lett),
'The Year's at the Spring', H H A Beach (Phyllis Lett),
New Song: 'Time and I', C Wakefield Cadman (Carrie Tubb),
Glee: 'Go, Rose', W Beale (The Gresham Singers),
Pianoforte Soli: 'Nocturne' (B Major), Julian Cliford (Dorothy Davies),
'Danse Negre', Cyril Scott (Dorothy Davies),
'Big Lady Moon' (Five Fairy Ballads), S Coleridge-Taylor (Gladys Palmer),
'You Are All That Is Lovely' (Stars of the Desert), Amy Woodforde-Finden (Topliss Green),
'Fate' (Stars of the Desert), Amy Woodforde-Finden (Topliss Green),
Organ Solo: 'Finale Alla Minuet', J A Meale (J A Meale),
New Song: 'The Ships of the Arcadie' (Astra Desmond),
'John of Devon', Sylvia Mortlake (Ivor Foster),
New Song: 'Come Away', Katie Moss (Flora Woodman),
New Song: 'Mariamme', Wilfrid Sanderson (Herbert Cave),
Violoncello Soli: 'Le Cygne', Saint-Saens (W H Squire),
'Rondo', Boccherini (W H Squire),
'Where the Great Ships Ride', Wilfrid Sanderson (Phyllis Lett),
'The Songs My Mother Sang', A E. Grimshaw (Carrie Tubb),
Part song: 'After Many A Dusty Mile', Edward Elgar (The Gresham Singers),
'The Promise of Life', F. H. Cowen (Gladys Palmer),
'The Toast', W H Squire (Topliss Green)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1919/21)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1919/21London Ballads Concerts - Tenth Concert22 March 1919
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Cvabowniohit_DThe London Ballad Concerts (53rd Season)11
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1568Desmond; Astra (1893-1973); British contralto singer
DS/UK/202Topliss; Green (fl 1915-1931); English bass-baritone singer
DS/UK/1602Palmer; Gladys (fl 1919-1920s); English jazz singer
DS/UK/5775Davies; Dorothy (fl 1919); British singer
DS/UK/309Woodman; Flora (fl 1914-1930); Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/1571The Gresham Singers (fl 1917-1937)
DS/UK/1578Squire; William Henry' (8 August 1871-17 March 1963); ARCM; British cellist, composer, teacher
DS/UK/189Tubb; Carrie (17 May 1876-20 September 1976); English soprano singer
DS/UK/304Lett; Phyllis (fl 1909-1925); English contralto singer
DS/UK/1554Foster; Ivor (1 March 1870-29 March 1959); Welsh singer baritone
DS/UK/1555Cave; Herbert (fl 1890-1930); English tenor
DS/UK/1743Meale; J. Arthur (fl 1916-1920s); English organist
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