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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1973 - Seventy-Ninth Season - Prom 55 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date15 September 1973
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersBernadette Greevy,
Leonie Henshilwood - vocals,
John Bingham - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers
ConductorsNorman Del Mar
Set List'Pas de Six' from The Prince of the Pagodas, B Britten,
'Toward the Unknown Region', R Vaughan Williams (BBC Singers),
'Suite: Checkmate', Bliss,
'The Rio Grande', C Lambert (Bernadette Greevy, John Bingham, BBC Singers),
'March: Pomp and Circumstance No.1 in D Major', E Elgar,
'Suite: Facade', W Walton,
'Fantasia on British Sea-Songs', H Wood,
'Jerusalem', H Parry,
'God Save the Queen', arr. E Elgar (Leonie Henshilwood, BBC Singers)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed by BBC Television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1973/94),
Programme (RAHE/1/1973/146)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1973/146BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1973 - Seventy-Ninth Season - Prom 55 - Last Night of the Proms15 September 1973
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Airanoobair_KynBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1973 - Seventy-Ninth Season52
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/5608Hillier; Paul (1949-); English conductor, music director, baritone
DS/UK/10983Greevy; Bernadette (1940-2008); Irish mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/10527Henshilwood; Leonie (fl 1960s-1970s); British vocalist
DS/UK/12308Bingham; John (31 March 1942-6 December 2003); British classical pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/2609Mar; Norman Del (1919-1994); British conductor, horn player, biographer
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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