| Performance Title | Society for the Propogation of the Gospel Pageant Play - The Vision |
| Performance Date | 12 July 1930 |
| Performance Day | Saturday |
| Main Performers | W Gerald Elliott,
George H Marten,
Katharine Herbert,
Noel Kynaston Gaskell,
Charles E Seccombe,
Norman Haynes,
Vincent Barton,
Hal Williams,
J Wilton Anstey,
A D Cummine Fyfe,
B C Boulter,
L Malden,
T B Cocking,
Gerald A Tomkinson,
D Robinson,
G H Baehr,
Lawrence Barrett,
Gordon P J Day,
H G Cryer,
L Sate,
H L Cryer,
Arthur H Howe-Browne,
Lawrence Barrett |
| Orchestra or Band | Rosabel Watson's Orchestra |
| Choirs | Choristers of Westminster Abbey,
Westminster Abbey Special Choir,
Lothbury Choir |
| Conductors | Ernest Bullock,
Rosabel Watson |
| Set List | 'The Street of the City', Ernest Bullock,
'Greek Dance',
Jewish Psalms: 'While Shepherds Watched',
'When To The Temple Mary Went', Joh. Eccard,
'Calvary's Mournful Mountain View' ( Nicht so Traurig ), J S Bach,
'Veni Creator',
'Kyrie Eleison',
'Out From The Twilight', Ernest Bullock,
'Fanfare', Ernest Bullock,
'Requiem', Plainsong,
'Ascribe Unto the Lord', S S Wesley,
'Come Lasses And Lads',
'Hide Not Thou Thy Face', Richard Farrant,
'O Dearest Lord' (Osterfreude), Har. Ernest Bullock,
'Gloria', C Stanford,
'For All The Saints' (Sine Nomine), R Vaughan Williams |
| Performance Notes | "A pageant play, The Vision, in which 2,000 performers will take part, will be produced at the Royal Albert Hall from July 9 yo July 12 for the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel. The performers will be drawn from clergy and people in the Metropolitan area, each deanery being responsible for some part of the progamme. For example, the Deanery of Wimbledon will come the Maya priests, youths, and maidens, with whom, as participants in a scene of human sacrifice, a first crude step in the search for God, the pageant opens. From Ealing, Richmond, and Barnes will come the Jews and Romans and othe rgentiles of the Gospel days. Hampstead Deanery will supply the Persians for a scene showing the persecution of early Christians at the Court of King Shapur II (A.D. 310-379); and from Norbury will come the Frenchmen and the Indians in the scenes showing the introduction of Christianity in Canada, A.D. 1534.
The special choir of 200 will be under the direction of Dr Ernest Bullock, of Westminster Abbey, whose choristers will also take part, and Miss Rosabel Watson, of the Stratford-on-Avon Festival Company, will lead the orchestra. The play will be produced by Mr Henry Millar, as Master of the Pageant, and the Rev. W. J. Tooth, of the S.P.G., as director.
The story of the pageant has been written by Miss Rosamund Essex, daughter of the Rev. H. J. Essex, of Chrsit Church, Isle of Dogs."
(30 June 1930, The Times, page 12)
"...striking was a reproduction of a modern festival of friendship at the Fraser River, at which the children of the immigrants of various nationalities are set dancing round a Maypole. At one end of the arena screen painted to represent a city set on a hill gave direction to the movements made in the arena, and over the gateway of a temple placed in the foreground of the scene appeared the tableaux."
(10 July 1930, page 16) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1930/58) |
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