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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1953 - Fifty-Ninth Season - Prom 19
Performance Date15 August 1953
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersLarry Adler - harmonica,
Andor Foldes - piano,
Eric Gritton - celesta, piano
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsBasil Cameron
Set ListOverture - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Mendelssohn,
'Piano Concerto No.1 in E Flat', Liszt,
'Symphony No.8 in B Minor' (Unfinished), Schubert,
'Harmonica Concerto', A Benjamin,
Scherzo - 'L'Apprenti Sorcier', Dukas,
'Three Hornpipes', Murrill,
'Romance for Harmonica and String Orchestra', Vaughan Williams,
'Incidental Music for Peer Gynt', Grieg
Performance NotesPremiere of 'Harmonica Concerto', Arthur Benjamin.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1953/83),
Programme (RAHE/1/1953/102)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/5f5I1A5o-2Wq
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1953/102Fifty Ninth Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Larry Adler and Andor Foldes15 August 1953
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Uzogenas_BeapBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1953 - Fifty-Ninth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/7477Gritton; Eric (fl 1950s); British organist
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/1934Foldes; Andor (1913-1992); Hungarian-American pianist
DS/UK/3181Adler; Larry (10 February 1914-6 August 2001); American harmonica player
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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