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Performance TitleRoyal Choral Society (Fiftieth Season 1920-1921) - Carols and Other Christmas Music
Performance Date18 December 1920
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersFlora Woodman,
Rosa Rubery,
Carmen Hill,
John Booth,
Topliss Green - vocals,
John Solomon - trumpet
Secondary PerformersH L Balfour - organ
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsSir Frederick Bridge
Set ListMotet for Double Chorus: 'Now Once Again Our Hearts We Raise',
Carol for Quartet and Chorus: 'In Dulci Jubilo', R L de Pearsall (Rosa Rubery, Carmen Hill, John Booth, Topliss Green),
Carol: 'Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes', Ivor Gurney (Topliss Green),
Carol: 'By Nazareth's Green Hills', Sir Frederick Bridge,
'An Old Sacred Lullaby', D Corner (1649) (Carmen Hill)
Carol: 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen', trad.,
Air and Chorus: 'O HolyNight, Adam (Flora Woodman),
Carol: 'Come, Rejoice, All Good Christians' (H L Balfour),
'Fly, Messenger, Fly!', Rutland Boughton (John Booth),
'New Year's Wassailing Song', E Elvira Gambogi (John Booth),
Carol: 'The Rose and the Lilly', Alec Rowley,
Legend: 'Christ in His Garden', Tchaikovsky,
Carol: 'The First Nowell', trad.,
Ancient Carol: 'Welcome Yule', Parry,
'Ring Out, Wild Bells, Gounod (Rosa Rubery),
Carol: 'When the Crimson Sun Has Set', S S Greatheed (Rosa Rubery, Carmen Hill, John Booth, Topliss Green),
'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind', Parry (John Booth),
'When Icicles Hang From the Wall' (John Booth),
Carols: 'Would I Had Been a Shepherd', Sir Frederick Bridge,
'Ring, Christmas Bells', Sir Frederick Bridge,
Aria: 'Let the Bright Seraphim', Handel (Flora Woodman, John Solomon),
Carol: 'The Holly and the Ivy', trad.,
'The Oxen' (A legend of Christmas Eve), Graham Peel (Carmen Hill),
'The Mahogany Tree', Herbert Sharpe (Topliss Green),
Carol: 'The Wassail Song', trad.,
'Good King Wenceslas', trad. (Rosa Rubery, Topliss Green),
Hymn for Christmas Day: 'O Come, All Ye faithfull', attr. John Reading
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1920/62),
Season Prospectus (RAHE/1/1920/64)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1920/64Royal Choral Society (Fiftieth Season) - Prospectus30 October 1920-23 April 1921
RAHE/1/1920/62Royal Choral Society (Fiftieth Season) - Carols18 December 1920
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IfanievowtidcxRoyal Choral Society (Fiftieth Season 1920-1921)8
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/309Woodman; Flora (fl 1914-1930); Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/1871Rubery; Rosa (fl 1920-1923); British singer
DS/UK/1583Hill; Carmen (fl 1883-1924); Scottish singer
DS/UK/1874Booth; John (fl 1910-1925); British singer
DS/UK/202Topliss; Green (fl 1915-1931); English bass-baritone singer
DS/UK/1875Solomon; John (fl 1872-1938); English trumpeter
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/1613Bridge; Sir; Frederick (5 December 1844-18 March 1924); CVO; English organist, composer, teacher, writer
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