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Performance TitleGirls' Friendly Society - Musical Festival and Display
Performance Date2 July 1927
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersSir Hugh Allen,
The Very Rev. Dean of Westminster,
Lady Maud Carnegie - speakers,
Plunket Greene - vocal,
Thomas Armstrong - organ,
Miss Bernard - violin
Secondary PerformersS Liddle,
Mrs Harvey Grace,
Ms Jane Cazenove - piano
Orchestra or BandMassed Girls Friendly Society Choir
ConductorsHarvey Grace
Set ListOrgan Soli: 'Prelude and Fugue in D Minor', Bach (Thomas Armstrong),
'Chaconne in F', Purcell (Thomas Armstrong),
'Intermezzo in E', Rheinberger (Thomas Armstrong),
'Londonderry Air', arr. Stanford (Thomas Armstrong),
'Finale in E', Schumann (Thomas Armstrong),
Hymn: 'Ye Watchers And Ye Holy Ones'
Songs: 'As The Hart Panteth', B Marcello (GFS Choirs),
'Evening Hymn', Henry Purcell (GFS Choirs),
'The Chapel On The Hill', C V Stanford (Plunket Greene),
'The Pibroch', C V Stanford (Plunket Greene),
'The Oak Tree Bough', E C Bairstow (Plunket Greene),
'The Laird O'Cockpen', Hubert Parry (Plunket Greene),
Country Dances: 'The Fine Companion' (Miss Bernard),
'The Old Mole' (Miss Bernard),
Songs: 'Yes,Through All My Pains', Handel (GFS Choirs),
'Now Is The Month of Maying', Thomas Morley (GFS Choirs),
'Pioneers!', Harvey Grace (GFS Choirs),
Songs: 'Six Dukes Went A-Fishing', arr. Percy Grainger (Plunket Greene),
'Dance To Your Daddy', arr. Cecil Sharp (Plunket Greene),
'O No, John', arr. Cecil Sharp (Plunket Greene),
'The Crocodile', arr. Lucy Broadwood (Plunket Greene),
Songs: 'Blow Away The Morning Dew', Cecil Sharp (GFS Choirs),
'The Bay of Biscay', arr. Geoffrey Shaw (GFS Choirs),
Minuet in Costume,
Songs: 'Charming Chloe', E T Sweeting (GFS Choirs),
'Lullaby', C V Stanford (GFS Choirs),
'England', Hubert Parry (GFS Choirs),
Songs: 'Dreams', Hubert Parry (GFS Choirs),
'The Bonny Blue Handkercher', arr. E T Sweeting (GFSChoirs),
'Jerusalem', Hubert Parry,
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesPremiere of 'Pioneers!', Harvey Grace.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1927/55)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1927/55Girls' Friendly Society - Musical Festival and Display2 July 1927
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
EahabionowlipiorGirls' Friendly Society - Musical Festival and Display1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1178Allen; Sir; Hugh (23 December 1869-20 February 1946); GCVO; English conductor and organist
DS/UK/3671Norris; William Foxley (1859-1937); English Dean of York (1917-1925), Dean of Westminster (1925-1937)
DS/UK/3672Carnegie; Lady; Maud Alexandra Victoria Georgina Bertha (1893-1945); Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk; British royal family member, a female line granddaughter of King Edward VII
DS/UK/1936Greene; Harry Plunket (1865-1936); Irish baritone
DS/UK/3314Armstrong; Sir; Thomas (15 June 1898-26 June 1994); English organist, conductor and composer
DS/UK/2239Grace; Harvey (1874-1944); English organist, music writer
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