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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1967 - Seventy-Third Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date22 July 1967
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersFou Ts'ong - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsColin Davis
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem),
'Overture' from Carnival, Dvorak (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Piano Concerto in A Minor', Grieg (Fou Ts'ong, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Symphony No.88 in G Major', Haydn (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
Suite - 'Facade', Walton (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Scherzo in G Minor', Mendelssohn (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell', Britten (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesColin Davis replaced Sir Malcolm Sargent.
The event was filmed by BBC television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1967/86),
Programme (RAHE/1/1967/87)
B&W photograph (RAHE/3/1967/4)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/UQfUQzsUSMlyD
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1967/86Henry Wood Promenade Concerts22 July-16 September 1967
RAHE/1/1967/87BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1967 - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms22 July 1967
RAHE/3/1967/4Photographs of the first Night of the Proms22 July 1967
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ytomoopoh_MutBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1967 - Seventy-Third Season51
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6100Davis; Sir; Colin (1927-2013); CH CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/11359Ts'ong; Fou (1934-); Chinese pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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