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Performance TitleLondon Symphony Orchestra 1947-1948 Season - Eighth Concert, in aid of The Voluntary Medical and Child Welfare Department of The Battersea Central Mission
Performance Date5 May 1948
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersCyril Smith,
Phyllis Sellick - pianos
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Children's Overture', Quilter,
'Symphony No.5 in B Flat', Schubert,
'Variations on a Nursery Song', Dohnanyi (Cyril Smith, Phyllis Sellick),
'Nursery Suite', Elgar,
'Carnival of the Animals', Saint-Saens (Cyril Smith, Phyllis Sellick),
'Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', Britten

Presentation of Cups and Awards (HM Queen Elizabeth)
Royal PresenceHM Queen Elizabeth
Performance NotesThe Lady Jean Rankin and Major Thomas Harvey were in attendance.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1948/126)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1948/127London Symphony Orchestra 1947-1948 Season - Eighth Concert5 May 1948
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
YbariotaigifuhLondon Symphony Orchestra 1947-1948 Season9
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2381Smith; Cyril James (1909-1974); OBE; English concert pianist
DS/UK/2667Sellick; Phyllis (1911-2007); OBE; English pianist, teacher
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
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