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Performance TitleMidsummer Madness
Performance Date24 June 1959
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersHugo Cole,
Guy Wright,
Stephen Manton - speakers,
Denis Matthews,
Eric Harrison - pianos,
Norman Bagge - street musician
Orchestra or BandAmici String Quartet,
Musophobia of London
Set List'Tuning Up',
'The Barber of Seville',
'Chopsticks',
'Ode To Discord',
'Kazoo Concerto',
'Quotations',
'Fall In And Follow Me',
'Land of Bottle',
'Nello Di Morto',
'Oom-Pah Concerto',
Norman Bagge,
'Symphony For 5000',
'Unwritten Improvisation',
'William Tell Goes To Hell'
Performance NotesAccording to The Times (25 June 1959), audience members were issued with mouth organs, penny whistles and pan pipes with which they took part in 'Song of the Oppressed Peoples'. During an interlude, Antony Hopkins accompanied violinist Norman Bagge (a disabled street musician) in the first movement of a Handel sonata. Additionally there was an overture for string orchestra and three kazoos and a fantasy for orchestra and eight bottles.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1959/66)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/gVZgVBWgvFil6
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1959/66Midsummer Madness24 June 1959
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
EboitienykotoozMidsummer Madness1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2584Matthews; Denis (1919-1988); English pianist
DS/UK/2665Harrison; Eric (fl 1940s-1960s); British pianist
DS/UK/9240Hopkins; Antony (1921-2014); CBE; English composer, pianist, conductor, radio broadcaster, writer
DS/UK/10483Spiegl; Fritz (1926-2003); Austrian-born British musician, journalist, broadcaster, humorist, collector
DS/UK/11751Cole; Hugo (1917-1995); British music critic, composer
DS/UK/11752Manton; Stephen (fl 1950s-1960s); British actor
DS/UK/11753Bagge; Norman (fl 1950s); British street musician
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