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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1954 - Sixtieth Season - Prom 5
Performance Date29 July 1954
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersElsie Morison,
Marjorie Thomas,
Peter Pears,
Ian Wallace - vocals,
Richard Farrell - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Choral Society,
Watford Grammar School Boys' Choir
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Overture' from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn,,
'Piano Concerto No.1 in E Flat', Liszt (Farrell),
'A Song of Welcome', Bliss (Morison, Wallace, BBC Choral Society),
'Symphony No.1 in E Minor', Sibelius,
'Spring Symphony', Britten (Morison, Thomas, Pears, BBC Choral Society, Watford Grammar School Boys' Choir)
Performance NotesWorld premiere of 'A Song of Welcome', Bliss.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1954/68),
Programme (RAHE/1/1954/73)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1954/73Sixtieth Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Elsie Morison - Marjorie Thomas - Peter Pears - Ian Wallace29 July 1954
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ulanymyg_BaihBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1954 - Sixtieth Season - Diamond Jubilee Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1564Morison; Elsie Jean (1924-); Australian soprano
DS/UK/6445Thomas; Marjorie (1923-2008); English opera and oratorio singer
DS/UK/3185Pears; Sir; Peter Neville Luard (1910-1986); English tenor
DS/UK/9425Wallace; Ian Bryce (1919-2009); OBE; English bass-baritone opera and concert singer, actor, broadcaster
DS/UK/3177Farrell; Richard (1926-1958); New Zealand classical pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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