Record

Performance Title	Daily Worker Twenty-Sixth Birthday Celebration
Performance Date	8 January 1956
Performance Day	Sunday
Performance Time	14:45
Main Performers	J R Campbell, Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson (Dean of Canterbury), Harry Pollitt - speakers
Orchestra or Band	Alan Bush with Orchestra
Choirs	WMA Choir
Conductors	Alan Bush
Set List	'Ballad of The Daily Worker', Ewan MacColl, 'West and East - A Song of Friendship', Alan Bush
Performance Notes	The Daily Worker was a left-wing British daily newspaper founded in 1930 by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). When they held their first event at the Royal Albert Hall in 1946 their ownership had been transferred from the CPGB to an independent readers' co-operative the previous year. In 1966 the paper was renamed and reinvented as the Morning Star and remains both the largest and longest-running socialist newspaper in Britain.
Related Archival Material	Programme (RAHE/1/1956/6)
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Catalogue

Reference Number	Title	Date
RAHE/1/1956/6	Daily Worker Twenty-Sixth Birthday Celebration	8 January 1956

Work

Ref No	Title	No of Performances
Aitomabaig_Ser	Daily Worker Twenty-Sixth Birthday Celebration	1

Performers

Code	Name of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3973	Bush; Alan Dudley (1900-1995); British composer, pianist
DS/UK/13240	Morning Star; 1930-; British newspaper
DS/UK/10314	Campbell; John Ross "Johnny" (1894-1969); Scottish Communist activist, newspaper editor
DS/UK/11524	Johnson; Hewlett (1874-1966); English Anglican priest
DS/UK/3398	Pollitt; Harry (1890-1960); British head of the trade union department of the Communist Party of Great Britain

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