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Performance TitleFabian Society Diamond Jubilee Rally Celebration Concert
Performance Date3 November 1946
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersPrime Minister, The Rt. Hon. C R Attlee,
Rt. Hon. Herbert Morrison,
Rt. Hon. Ellen Wilkinson,
Rt. Hon. John Strachey,
Prof. Harold Laski (presiding) - speakers

Frank Titterton - vocal,
Dr Thalben-Ball - organ
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Thomas Beecham
Set ListAddress (Attlee),
Address (Morrison),
Address (Strachey),
Address (Wilkinson),
Address (Beecham)

Fanfare (Dr Thalben-Ball),
'Overture' from Die Meistersinger, Wagner,
'Fantasia' from Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky,
Poem, 'Le Rouet D'Omphale', Saint-Saens,
Arias, 'Celeste Aida' from Aida, Verdi (Frank Titterton),
'Prize Song' from Die Meistersinger, Wagner (Frank Titterton),
'Three Dances', Handel-Beecham,
'Suite' from Carmen, Bizet
Performance NotesMr George Bernard Shaw did not attend having, "...written to the organisers: "I do not believe in having 19th-century ghosts at 20th-century gatherings." Mr Attlee paid tribute to Mr Shaw and to other members of early days."
(The Daily Telegraph, 4 November 1946)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1946/256)
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Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1946/256Fabian Society Diamond Jubilee Rally Celebration Concert3 November 1946
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
AifavivoogifclFabian Society Diamond Jubilee Rally Celebration Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3509Attlee; Clement (3 January 1883-8 October 1967); 1st Earl Attlee, KG OM CH PC FRS; British politician
DS/UK/2702Morrison; Herbert Stanley (1888-1965); Baron Morrison of Lambeth; British Labour politician
DS/UK/2996Wilkinson; Ellen (1891-1947); British politician
DS/UK/6973Strachey; John (1901-1963); English politician
DS/UK/6974Laski; Harold Joseph (1893-1950); British political theorist, economist, author, lecturer
DS/UK/1339Titterton; Frank (1893-1956); English tenor
DS/UK/1233Ball; Sir; George Thomas Thalben- (1896-1987); English organist, composer
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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