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Performance TitlePitman's School Annual Prizegiving and Concert [Private]
Performance Date9 December 1922
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:00
Main PerformersThe Right. Hon. Lord Beaverbrook - speaker
Alfred Pitman - prize-giver,
Will Gardner - humorous entertainer,
The Arnaut Brothers - musical clowns,
Cecilia Farrar,
Albert Downing,
Lily Fairney - vocals,
Aileen Bransden - organ,
W H Squire - cello
Secondary PerformersAileen Bransden - organ
Frank Reade - piano
Orchestra or BandBand of HM 1st Life Guards
ChoirsCentral London Choral Society
ConductorsDavid J Thomas,
Lieutenant H Eldridge
Set List'Concert Overture in C Minor', Hollins (Aileen Bransden),
'Toccata in F', Bach (Aileen Bransden),
'March Upon a Theme of Handel', Handel, arr, Guilmant (Aileen Bransden),
Madrigal: 'Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day', Sullivan (Band, Choir),
'Quotations from Popular Overtures', Sullivan (Band),
Song: 'Rose Petals' , Cecil Moon (Cecilia Farrar),
Song: 'Love's a Merchant', Molly Carew (Cecilia Farrar),
Chorus: 'Light as Air' (from Faust), Gounod (Band, Choir),
'Cello Solo: 'Meditation in C', W H Squire (W H Squire, Aileen Bransden),
Recital and Air: 'Deeper and Deeper Still' and 'Waft Her, Angels' (Jepta), Handel (Albert Downing),
'Waft her, Angels' (Jepta) Handel,
'Hungarian Rhapsody (No.2)', Liszt (Band),
Song: 'My Prayer', W H Squire (Lily Fairney, AB),
'Second Suite for Military Band in F Major', Gustav Holst (Band),
New Song: 'The Moonlit Road', W H Squire (Lily Fairney, W H Squire),
Duet: 'Dear Love of Mine' (Nadeshda), Goring Thomas (Cecilia Farrar, Albert Downing),
'Cello Solo: 'A Drinking Song', Dunkler, arr. Squire (W H Squire),
Part Song: 'The Vagabonds', Eaton Faning (Choir)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1922/52)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1922/52Pitman's School Annual Prize Giving and Concert9 December 1922
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OirateareatihevPitman's School Annual Prizegiving and Concert [Private]1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1868Central London Choral Society; fl 1920-1926; English choir
DS/UK/2359Thomas; David J. (fl 1922-1926); British conductor
DS/UK/1313Pitman's College; 1870-; English secretarial and business training college
DS/UK/2360Pitman; Alfred (fl 1886-1922); English son of shorthand inventor Sir Issac Pitman
DS/UK/2361Aitken; Lord; Max (1879-1964); 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC ONB; Canadian-British newspaper publisher and politician
DS/UK/2362Gardner; Will (fl 1922); British comedy entertainer
DS/UK/1785The Arnaut Brothers (1910-1962)
DS/UK/2363Farrar; Cecilia (fl 1922); Australian singer
DS/UK/2365Downing; Albert (fl 1922); Canadian tenor
DS/UK/1576Fairney; Lily (fl 1915-1922); English contralto singer
DS/UK/2366Bransden; Aileen (fl 1906-1922); British organist
DS/UK/1578Squire; William Henry' (8 August 1871-17 March 1963); ARCM; British cellist, composer, teacher
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