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Performance TitleLondon Philharmonic Orchestra 1976-1977 Season, 'Classics for Pleasure' - John Pritchard, Ralph Downes, Alvar Lidell and the Wandsworth School Choir
Performance Date17 December 1976
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:45
Main PerformersAlvar Lidell,
Ralph Downes - organ
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsWandsworth School Choir
ConductorsJohn Pritchard,
Russell Burgess
Set List'O Come All Ye Faithful' (Adeste Fideles), Anon.,
'Prelude' (Richard III), W Walton,
'Organ Concerto in B Flat, Op.7, No.1', Handel (Ralph Downes),
'Golden Cockerel Suiute', Rimsky-Korsakov
INTERVAL
'I Wish You a Merry Christmas', arr. Warrell (Ralph Downes, Wandsworth School Choir),
'The First Christmas', P Racine Fricker (Ralph Downes, Wandsworth School Choir),
'O Sleep Thou Heaven-born Treasure', arr. MacPherson (Ralph Downes, Wandsworth School Choir),
'On This Day Earth Shall Ring', H C Stewart (Ralph Downes, Wandsworth School Choir),
'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen' (Ralph Downes, Wandsworth School Choir),
'O Little Town of Bethlehem' (Ralph Downes, Wandsworth School Choir),
'The First Nowell' (Ralph Downes, Wandsworth School Choir),
'Practical Cats, An Entertainment for Children - 'The Naming of Cats', 'The Old Gumbie Cat', 'Gus: the Theatre Cat', 'Bustopher Jones:the Cat About Town', 'Old Deuteronomy', 'The Song of the Jellicles'n', Rawsthorne (Alvar Lidell)
'A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern', Kern, R R Bennett (London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1976/205)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iotosahyh_XoonLondon Philharmonic Orchestra 1976-1977 Season - 'Classics for Pleasure'12
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3149Lidell; Tord 'Alvar' Quan (1908-1981); British BBC radio announcer, newsreader
DS/UK/6473Downes; Ralph William (1904-1993); Professor; English organist, organ designer, music director, academic
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/10451Wandsworth School Boys' Choir; 1895-1985; English boys choir
DS/UK/9347Pritchard; Sir; John Michael (1921-1989); OBE; English conductor
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