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Performance TitleRoyal Choral Society (Fifty-Eighth Season 1928-1929) - Smyth's 'Mass In D' and Schubert's 'The Song of Miriam'
Performance Date24 November 1928
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersCaroline Hatchard,
Astra Desmond,
Parry Jones,
Stuart Robertson - vocals
Secondary PerformersR Arnold Greir - organ
Orchestra or BandThe New Symphony Orchestra,
British Women's Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsDr Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Mass In D', Ethel Smyth
INTERVAL
'The Song of Miriam', Schubert
Royal PresenceHM Queen Mary
Performance NotesDuring the interval Dame Ethel Smyth was received in the Royal Box by the Queen, who was attended by Lady Joan Verney and the Hon. Gerald Chichester.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1928/69)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1928/69Royal Choral Society (Fifty-Eighth Season) - Mass in D, The Song of Miriam24 November 1928
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
_BoluxcvipowmRoyal Choral Society (Fifty-Eighth Season 1928-1929)8
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/368Smyth; Dame; Ethel (22 April 1858-8 May 1944); DBE; English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/374British Women's Symphony Orchestra; fl 1920s-1930s; British women-only orchestra
DS/UK/324New Symphony Orchestra; c1905-c 1931; English orchestra
DS/UK/2990Hatchard; Caroline (fl 1904-1928); English soprano singer
DS/UK/1568Desmond; Astra (1893-1973); British contralto singer
DS/UK/2133Jones; Gwynn Parry (1891-1963); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/2410Robertson; Stuart (1901-1958); Scottish bass-baritone, actor
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