Record

Performance TitleA Christmas Cracker
Performance Date20 December 1973
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersLeslie Pearson - organ,
Susan Drake - harp,
Christopher Steele-Perkins,
John Wilbraham - trumpets
Orchestra or BandGrimethorpe Colliery Band
ChoirsHandel Opera Society Chorus,
Trinity Boys' Choir
ConductorsElgar Howarth,
Charles Farncombe,
David Squibb
Set List'Pel Mel, Hogarth Lear' (Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Hallelujah Chorus' from Messiah, Handel (Handel Opera Chorus, John Wilbraham, Christopher Steele-Perkins, Leslie Pearson),
'I Wish You a Merry Christmas', trad. (Handel Opera Chorus, John Wilbraham, Christopher Steele-Perkins, Leslie Pearson),
'A Christmas 'Cracker', Leslie Pearson (John Wilbraham, Leslie Pearson),
'Three Carols', John Rutter (Trinity Boys' Choir, Susan Drake),
'King's Hunting Jig', arr. Hogarth Lear (Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Giles Farnaby', arr. Hogarth Lear, (Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Thunder and Lightning Polka', Strauss (Grimethorpe Colliery Band)
INTERVAL
'A Children's' Overture, Quilter (Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Torches', John Joubert (Handel Opera Chorus, Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Shadrack', trad. (Handel Opera Chorus, Trinity Boys' Choir, Leslie Pearson),
'Gloria in Excelsis Deo', Wilbraham (John Wilbraham, Christopher Steele-Perkins, Leslie Pearson),
'Overture and Hornpipe', Handel (John Wilbraham, Christopher Steele-Perkins, Leslie Pearson),
'London's Burning', trad., arr. J C Wood (Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Trinity Boys' Chorus, Handel Opera Chorus),
'Three Kings', Cornelius (Trinity Boys' Chorus, Handel Opera Chorus),
'In the Bleak Mid-Winter', arr. Harold Dart (Trinity Boys' Chorus, Handel Opera Chorus),
'Good King Wenceslas', trad. (Trinity Boys' Chorus, Handel Opera Chorus, Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Cornet Cascade', S Woods (Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Yo Ho Ho, Hogarth Lear' (Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Pop Goes the Posthorn', Hogarth Lear (Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'Away in a Manger', trad. (Trinity Boys' Chorus, Handel Opera Chorus, Grimethorpe Colliery Band),
'O Come All Ye Faithful', trad. (Trinity Boys' Chorus, Handel Opera Chorus, Grimethorpe Colliery Band)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1973/203)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1973/203A Christmas Cracker20 December 1973
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Esielowsowk_ToipA Christmas Cracker1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/10520Pearson; Leslie (fl 1960s-1970s); British organist, pianist
DS/UK/11035Wilbraham; John (1944-1998); English trumpeter
DS/UK/14042Allen; Patrick (17 March 1927-28 July 2006); British actor and voice actor
DS/UK/2943The Grimethorpe Colliery Band (1917-)
DS/UK/3554Trinity School of John Whitgift; Trinity Boys Choir; c1960s-; English school choir
DS/UK/10621Howarth; Elgar (1935-); English conductor, composer, trumpeter
DS/UK/10347Farncombe; Charles Frederick (1919-2006); English conductor
DS/UK/14044Squibb; David (1935-2010); English music teacher
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