Record

Performance TitleNational Brass Band Championship of Great Britain Festival Concert
Performance Date26 October 1957
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time17:00
Main PerformersIsobel Baillie - vocal,
O H Peasgood - organ
Secondary PerformersFrank Phillips - announcer,
Major F J Harris - prize giver
Orchestra or BandMassed Bands:
Fairey Aviation Works Band,
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band,
Clydebank Burgh Band,
CWS (Manchester) Band,
Morris Motors Band,
Munn and Felton's Works Band,
Trumpeters of The Life Guards
ChoirsBarkingside Boys' Choir
ConductorsLt.-Colonel A Lemoine,
Dr Karl Rankl
Set List'Fanfare for Brass and Organ' (Massed Bands, O H Peasgood),
'God Save the Queen', (National Anthem)
'Stars and Stripes For Ever', Sousa (Massed Bands),
'Prelude' from La Traviata, Verdi, Drake Rimmer (Massed Bands),
'Variations for Brass Band', Vaughan Williams (Massed Bands),
'On a Theme of 'Peace', Sir Donald Wolfit (Isobel Baillie, Barkingside Boys' Choir),
'O Lovely Peace', Handel,
'The Holy City', Adams (Massed Bands, O.H.Peasgood),
'Grand March' from Tannhauser, Wagner (Massed Bands),
'Menuet in G', Paderewski - Frank Wright (Massed Bands),
'Melodies from The Mikado', Sullivan - Denis Wright (Massed Bands),
'Czech Polka', Strauss - Frank Wright (Massed Bands),
'Love Song', Beethoven, arr. Haydn Bebb (Massed Bands),
'Nature's Praise of God', Beethoven, arr. Haydn Bebb (Massed Bands),
'Tales from The Vienna Woods', J Strauss (Massed Bands),
'Overture' from Oberon, Weber - J A Greenwood (Massed Bands),
'Intermezzo', Coleridge Taylor (Massed Bands),
'Hallelujah Chorus' from Messiah, Handel (Massed Bands)
Performance NotesThe event was broadcast on BBC television at 15:15.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1957/138)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1957/138National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain 195726 October 1957
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iogonowhoox_SoovNational Brass Band Championship of Great Britain 19572
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6340Peasgood; Osborne Harold (1902-1962); CVO; Brtish organist
DS/UK/1218Baillie; Dame; Isobel (9 March 1895-24 September 1983); DBE; Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/6531Rankl; Karl (1898-1968); British conductor, composer
DS/UK/1885British Army; HM Band of the Life Guards; 1795-; British Army Band
DS/UK/8789Wolfit; Sir; Donald (1902-1968); English actor-manager
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