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Performance TitleRoyal Choral Society (Fifty-Fourth Season 1924-1925) - Smyth's 'Mass in D' and Elgar's 'The Spirit of England'
Performance Date31 January 1925
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersCaroline Hatchard,
Astra Desmond,
Archibald Winter,
Herbert Heyner - vocals
Secondary PerformersArnold Greir - organ
Orchestra or BandRoyal Albert Hall Orchestra
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsMalcolm Sargent
Set List'Mass in D', Ethel Smyth,
'The Spirit of England', E Elgar,
'Variations on an Original Theme', E Elgar
Performance Notes"The Mass came off at the Albert Hall on 31 Jan. Result, part of it is to be done at the Gloucester Festival next September, and all of it by the Sheffield Musical Union in November. Malcolm Sargent conducted at the Albert Hall. He will be a fine conductor some day. He began by being more cheeky to me than words can say. And I had met him only once and been specially nice to him! The old tradition started by Beecham:' Show E.S. I won't stand any nonsense!' But M S ended up by being my thrall and couldn't believe I was the person he had 'heard about'. Well! Well!" (Extract taken from Ethel Smyth's diary in Ethel Smyth - A Biography, by Christopher St John, 1959)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1925/8 - with attached Handbill)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1924/56Royal Choral Society (Fifty-Fourth Season) - Season Prospectus18 October 1924-10 April 1925
RAHE/1/1925/8Royal Choral Society (Fifty-Fourth Season) - Mass in D, The Spirit of England31 January 1925
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
AibaroisiraimutRoyal Choral Society (Fifty-Fourth Season 1924-1925)8
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/228Royal Albert Hall; Royal Albert Hall Orchestra; 1915-c1931; Orchestra
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/1657Heyner; Herbert (fl 1909-1937); Captain; English singer
DS/UK/2315Winter; Archibald (fl 1922-1926); British singer
DS/UK/1568Desmond; Astra (1893-1973); British contralto singer
DS/UK/2990Hatchard; Caroline (fl 1904-1928); English soprano singer
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