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Performance TitlePitman's School Annual Prizegiving and Concert [Private]
Performance Date10 December 1927
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersRt. Hon. Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland (Minister of Labour) - prize-giver,
Roy Henderson,
Flora Woodmanm,
Walter Widdop - vocals,
Edwin E Davis - organ,
Corporal H Stanley - cornet
Secondary PerformersMadame Adami - piano,
Sergeant Lumley-Holmes - flute
Orchestra or BandHM Scots Guards
ChoirsThe Albion Singers (Bessie Jones, Mari Edwards, T Wilfred Kearton, Alexander Price, Harry Brindle)
ConductorsCaptain Frederick W Wood
Set ListWelcome,
Speech (Steel-Maitland),
Prize-giving

Concert:
'March Militaire, No.1', Schubert (Edwin E Davis),
'Londonderry Air' (Farewell to Cucullain), arr. Henry Coleman (Edwin E Davis),
'Pilgrim's Chorus' from Tannhauser, Wagner (Edwin E Davis),
'Toreador Song' from Carmen, Bizet (Edwin E Davis),
'Spring Song', Mendelssohn (Edwin E Davis),
'Prelude', Rachmaninoff (Edwin E Davis),
'Gavotte' (Mignon), Thomas (Edwin E Davis),
'Miserere' from Trovatore, Verdi (Edwin E Davis),
'Prelude', Chopin (Edwin E Davis),
'Overture' (William Tell), Rossini (Edwin E Davis),
'Nocturne', Chopin (Edwin E Davis),
'Valse' from Faust, Gounod (Edwin E Davis),
'Minuet', Beethoven (Edwin E Davis),
'Hungarian Dance', Brahms (Edwin E Davis),
'Largo', Handel (Edwin E Davis),
'Rhapsodie Hongroise No.2 ', Liszt (Edwin E Davis),
'Prelude' Op.28, No.20, Chopin (Edwin E Davis),
'Scottish Patrol', Sharpe (HM Scots Guards),
'The Erl King', Schubert (Roy Henderson)
'Lo! Here the Gentle Lark', Sir Henry R Bishop (Flora Woodman, Sergt.Lumley-Holmes),
'Prelude, Choral and Fugue', Bach (HM Scots Guards),
'O Mistress Mine', Roger Quilter (Walter Widdop),
'Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind', Roger Quilter (Walter Widdop),
'Softly Awakes My Heart' from Samson and Delilah, Saint-Saens (Corporal H Stanley),
'In This Solemn Hour' (Forza del Destino), Verdi (Walter Widdop, Roy Henderson),
'Interlude' (Bransby Williams)
Selection: 'Lilac Time', Schubert (HM Scots Guards),
'Celeste Aida' (Aida), Verdi (Walter Widdop),
'The Lass With The Delicate Air', Arne (Flora Woodman),
'The Holy Child', Easthope Martin (Flora Woodman),
''Peer Gynt' Suite No.1, Op.46, Grieg (H.M. Scots Guards),
'The Rebel', William Wallace (Roy Henderson),
'Haste Not To End, O Day, So Soon', Liza Lehmann (The Albion Singers),
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1927/80)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1927/80Pitman's - Prize-Giving and Concert10 December 1927
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
YlamurclipogPitman's School Annual Prizegiving and Concert [Private]1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3715Wood; Frederick W. (fl 1912-1928); Captain; English conductor of the H.M Scots Guards Band
DS/UK/3716The Albion Singers (fl.1920s)
DS/UK/2392British Army; The Band of HM Scots Guards; 1642-; British Army division
DS/UK/1344Henderson; Roy Galbraith (4 July 1899-16 March 2000); CBE; English singer baritone
DS/UK/309Woodman; Flora (fl 1914-1930); Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/1219Widdop; Walter (1892-1949); British operatic tenor
DS/UK/3718Williams; Bransby (1870-1961); British actor, comedian, monologist
DS/UK/3719Maitland; Sir; Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel- (1876-1935); 1st Baronet of Sauchie; British Conservative politician
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