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Performance TitleLondon Symphony Orchestra 1941-1942 Season - Concert in aid of King George's Fund For Sailors
Performance Date5 July 1942
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersRight Honourable A V Alexander PC CH MP (First Lord ofthe Admirality) - speaker,
Parry Jones - vocal
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsJohn Barbirolli
Set List'God Save The King' (The National Anthem),
Overture, 'Roman Carnival, Op.9', Berlioz,
'A Song of Summer', Delius,
'Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing' from Acis and Galatea, Handel (Parry Jones),
'Sound An Alarm' from Judas Maccabaeus, Handel (Parry Jones),
Ballet Suite, 'The Fire Bird', Stravinsky
INTERVAL
Address (Right Honourable A V Alexander),
'Symphony No.4 in F Minor', Tchaikovsky
Performance NotesThe programme states that this was the last appearance prior to his return to America of John Barbirolli.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1942/62)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1942/62John Barbirolli5 July 1942
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
UmobavubifiobLondon Symphony Orchestra 1941-1942 Season2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/1100Barbirolli; Sir; John (2 December 1899-29 July 1970); CH; English conductor and cellist
DS/UK/2133Jones; Gwynn Parry (1891-1963); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/1522Alexander; Albert Victor (1 May 1885-11 January 1965); 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, KG CH PC; British Labour Co-operative politician
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