Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1953 - Fifty-Ninth Season - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date19 September 1953
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersConstance Shacklock - vocal,
Eileen Joyce - piano,
Arnold Greir - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Chorus,
BBC Choral Society
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
Basil Cameron
Set List'Trumpet Voluntary', Clarke, arr. Henry J.Wood, William Overton (Greir),
'Overture Di Ballo', Sullivan,
'Serenade To Music', Vaughan Williams (BBC Chorus),
'Symphony No.28 in C, K.200', Mozart,
'Piano Concerto in A Minor', Schumann,
'Coronation March', Arnold Bax,
March - Pomp and Circumstance No.1 in D', Elgar,
'Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell', Britten,
'Rule Britannia', Arne-Sargent (Shacklock),
'Jerusalem', Parry,
'Fantasia On British Sea Songs', arr. Henry J.Wood,
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesProms premiere of 'Coronation March', Arnold Bax.

The event was broadcast by BBC Television from 21:10-22:30.

Approxiamately 260,000 people attended the 59th Proms season.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1953/83),
Programme (RAHE/1/1953/133)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1953/133Fifty Ninth Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Last Concert of the Season19 September 1953
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Uzogenas_BeapBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1953 - Fifty-Ninth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/1560Shacklock; Constance (1913-1999); OBE; English contralto
DS/UK/1519Joyce; Eileen (1 January 1908-25 March 1991); CMG; Australian 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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