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Performance TitleHarold Holt Sunday Concerts Season 1945-1946 - Concert Nine
Performance Date18 November 1945
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersMarjorie Lawrence - vocal
Orchestra or BandThe London Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Thomas Beecham
Set List'Overture' from Tannhauser, Wagner,
'Serenade in E Minor for Strings, Op.20', Elgar,
'Thou God Most High' Nitocris's Aria from Belshazzar, Handel (Marjorie Lawrence),
'En Saga', Sibelius,
'Symphony No.103 in E Flat' (Drum Roll), Haydn,
Aria, 'Closing Scene' from Gotterdammerung, Wagner (Marjorie Lawrence)
Performance NotesMarjorie Lawrence sang seated because four years previously she had had an attack of infantile paralysis from which she had not yet fully recovered.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1945/193)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1945/193Harold Holt Sunday Concerts - London Symphony Orchestra18 November 1945
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IexoriozavifowxHarold Holt Sunday Concerts Season 1945-194634
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6673Florence Lawrence; Marjorie (1907-1979); CBE; Australian soprano
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/346Beecham; Sir; Thomas (29 April 1879-8 March 1961); 2nd Barronet of Ewanville, CH; English conductor and impresario
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