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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1978 - Eighty-Fourth Season - Prom 55 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date16 September 1978
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersGillian Knight - vocal
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers,
BBC Symphony Chorus
ConductorsSir Charles Groves
Set List'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', Britten,
'Sea Pictures', Elgar (Gillian Knight),
'In Honour of the City of London', Walton (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus),
'March: Pomp and Circumstance No.1 in D Major', Elgar (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus),
'Suite in D Major (A Birthday Suite for Prince Charles)', Tippett,
'Sea Songs', Wood, arr. Sargent,
'Rule, Britannia!', Arne, arr. Sargent (Gillian Knight, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus),
'Jerusalem', Parry, orch. Elgar (Gillian Knight, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus),
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Gordon Jacob (BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed by BBC Television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1978/108),
Programme (RAHE/1/1978/159)
2 B&W photographs (RAHE/3/1978/4)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/wy5wcuywUjHc9
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1978/159BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1978 - Eighty-Fourth Season - Prom 55 - Last Night of the Proms16 September 1978
RAHE/3/1978/4Photographs of the Last Night of the Proms (LNOP) with Sir Charles Groves16 September 1978
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iehaviokif_XydBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1978 - Eighty-Fourth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/12437Knight; Gillian (1934-); English singer, actress
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/9318Groves; Sir; Charles Bernard (1915-1992); English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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