Main Performers | General Wilfred Kitching, Commissioner Edgar Grinsted, Lt.-Commissioner Albert Mingay - speakers
Girls of The National School of Music Singing Company Leader Joan Clothier
Erna Askeland, Samuel Hooper, Kevin Platts, Songster Leader Muriel Packham, Songster Leader Elgar Gambling - vocals, Michael Clack - organ, Terry Camsey - cornet, Marjorie Ringham - piano |
Orchestra or Band | International Staff Band: Southend Citadel (Donald Middleton), Reading Central (Sidney Early), Sutton (Reginald Jobson), Harlesden (Capt.Ray Bowes), Twickenham (Reginald Davey) |
Choirs | Massed Chorus of a Thousand Voices: London Male Chorus, National Songsters, Leeds Central (Ivy Henderson), Derby Central (Bramwell Foster), Cambridge (Percival Reed), Ilford (Elgar Gambling), Catford (William Wearing), Southall Citadel (Donald Osgood), Manchester Openshaw Citadel (Harry Salthouse), Birmingham Citadel (Alfred Crowhurst), Chelmsford (Lloyd Harvey), Hemel Hempstead (Hector Nethercoat), Luton Citadel (Hubert Janes), Kingston-Upon-Thames (Ronald Badnell), Regent Hall (Michael Babb) |
Conductors | Major Dean Goffin, Lt.-Colonel Bernard Adams, Captain Norman Bearcroft |
Set List | 'Hark, The Gospel News is Sounding', Prayer (Lt.-Commissioner Albert Mingay), 'All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name', J Ellor, arr. Dean Goffin (Chorus of A Thousand Voices, Michael Clack, International Staff Band, Fanfare Trumpets), 'Shout Aloud Salvation', arr. Norman Bearcroft (Chorus of A Thousand Voices, International Staff Band), 'Life in Thee', Schubert, arr. Charles Skinner (Girls of The National School of Music), 'Welcome, Happy Morning', Eric Ball (Girls of The National School of Music), 'I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old', arr. Ray Steadman-Allen (Kevin Platts), 'Steal Away', arr. Eric Ball (London Male Chorus), 'De Battle Ob Jericho', arr. Ray Bowes (London Male Chorus), Selection - 'Good News', Eric Ball (International Staff Band), 'The Old Chariot', arr. Norman Bearcroft (National Songsters), 'Are You Washed In The Blood of The Lamb?', arr. Norman Bearcroft (National Songsters), Aria - 'Hear Ye Israel....Be Not Afraid', from Elijah, Mendelssohn (Joan Clothier, Chorus of A Thousand Voices), 'O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing', 'He Hideth My Soul', William Kirkpatrick, arr. Eric Ball (Chorus of A Thousand Voices, International Staff Band), Aria - 'Come Unto Him', from Messiah, Handel (Kevin Platts), Testimony (Erna Askeland), 'The Ninety and Nine', Ira D Sankey (Chorus of A Thousand Voices, Songster Leader Elgar Gambling), 'Victorious', Dean Goffin (Terry Camsey, International Staff Band), 'O Sacred Head Now Wounded', from St. Matthew Passion, J S Bach (Chorus of A Thousand Voices), 'Beneath The Cross of Jesus', Ira D Sankey, arr. Donald Osgood (Joan Clothier), Bible Reading (Samuel Hooper), 'Though Your Sins Be As Scarlet', W H Doane (London Male Chorus, Kevin Platts), 'Crown Him With Many Crowns', G J Elvey, arr. Charles Skinner (Chorus of A Thousand Voices, International Staff Band, Fanfare Trumpets, Michael Clack) |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1963/77) |