Record

Performance TitleGrand American Festival - George Washington Birthday Commemoration
Performance Date21 February 1920
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:45
Main PerformersFlora Woodman,
Adelaide Gretton,
Roland Plumtree,
Frank Webster,
Charles Knowles - vocals,
Constance Keeping - pianoforte,
F W Belchamber - organ,
Sergeant Hamilton - cornet
Secondary PerformersMiss Violet Locke,
Mr J Hurst Bannister - accompanists
Orchestra or BandBand of HM Scots Guards
ChoirsGrand Festival Choir
ConductorsDr. Churchill Sibley,
Lieut. F W Wood (Band of HM Scots Guards)
Set ListSelection: 'America', Winterbottom (Band of HM Scots Guards),
Aria: 'Spe Modo Vivatur', Horatio W Parker,
American Song: 'Hail Columbia', (Flora Woodman, Band of HM Scots Guards, Grand Festival Choir, F W Belchamber),
Part Song: 'A Perfect Day', Carrie Jacobs-Bond (Grand Festival Choir),
'Jean', H T Burleigh (Frank Webster),
'Before the Daybreak, Ethelbert Nevin (Adelaide Gretton, Violet Locke),
American Song (Mimi Carina),
Organ Solo: 'Triumphal March', Dudley Buck (F. W. Belchamber),
'Just A Wearyin' for You', Carrie Jacobs-Bond (Roland Plumtree),
Part Song: 'Dixie's Land', Dan Emmett (Band of HM Scots Guards, Grand Festival Choir, F W Belchamber),
Selection: 'American National Airs', Tobani (Band of H. M. Scots Guards),
Part Song: 'Requiem', arr. Churchill Sibley (Grand Festival Choir),
Part Song: 'Battle Hymn of the Republic', arr. Churchill Sibley (Grand Festival Choir),
'Oh! That We Two Were Maying', Ethelbert Nevin (Charles Knowles),
'Marching Through Georgia', H C Work (Charles Knowles),
'By the Waters of Minnetonka', Thurlow Lieurance (Frank Webster),
Pianoforte Solo: 'Etude de Concert', Edward MacDowell (Charles Knowles),
'I Hear A Thrush At Eve', Cadman (Frank Webster),
'My Lover He Comes On the Skee', H. Clough-Leighter (Adelaide Gretton, Violet Locke),
'One Spring Morning', Ethelbert Nevin (Mimi Carina),
'My Old Kentucky Home', S C Foster (Roland Plumtree, Grand Festival Choir),
Part Song: 'Yankee Doodle', trad. (Grand Festival Choir)
Performance NotesMiss Mimi Carina was indisposed.
Related Archival MaterialHandbill (RAHE/6/1920/7)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/1920/7Grand American Festival - George Washington Birthday Commemoration21 February 1920
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OzomowkogidowvGrand American Festival - George Washington Birthday Commemoraton1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/309Woodman; Flora (fl 1914-1930); Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/1624Gretton; Adelaide (fl 1916-1920); Australian singer
DS/UK/1625Plumtree; Roland (fl 1919-1920); English singer
DS/UK/1627Webster; Frank (fl 1919-1920s); British singer
DS/UK/1628Knowles; Charles (fl 1899-1925); English bass-baritone singer
DS/UK/1630Belchamber; Frederick William (fl 1890-1944); English organist
DS/UK/1593Hamilton; H. B. (fl 1920-1921); Sergeant; British cornet player
DS/UK/1635Sibley; John Churchill (1858-1938); Archbishop; English organist, religious leader
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