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Performance TitleOrder of Women Freemasons - Centenary Celebration (1908-2008) [Private]
Performance Date7 June 2008
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:00
Main PerformersRight Worshipful Brother Margaret Masters,
Most Worshipful Brother Brenda Irene Fleming-Taylor,
Assistant Grand Master Right Worshipful Brother Betty Wildman,
Assistant Grand Master Right Worshipful Brother Zuzanka Penn,
David Newbigging OBE,
Camilla, Countess of Halifax - speakers
Secondary PerformersMark Williams - organ
Orchestra or BandStudents and Alumni of The Royal Academy of Music
ConductorsSteven Higgins
Set ListOpening Declaration,
Reigning Grand Lodge Officers enter in procession,
Fanfare - Samuel Quartermaine Smith,
Pageant of the Banners,
Procession of Representatives of Degrees beyond The Craft,
Address (The Most Worshipful The Grand Master),
Service of Thanksgiving,
'O Praise Ye the Lord!',
Prayer (Betty Wildman),
Reading - 1 Corinthians 13 v. 1-8 (Zuzanka Penn),
'Laudate Dominum', Mozart (Students and Alumni of The Royal Academy of Music),
Prayer (Betty Wildman),
'Praise the Lord',
'Achieved is the Glorious Work' from The Creation, Haydn (Students and Alumni of The Royal Academy of Music)
INTERVAL
Charitable Donations,
Cavalcade of Highlights of the Century,
Closing Hymn - 'Now Thank We All Our God',
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesThe 100th anniversary of the Order of the Women Freemasons. They last came to the Hall in 1968 to celebrate their 60th anniversary. The programme included a procession of all the Banners of The Order's Lodges, introduced by Area. A Service of Thanksgiving followed, after which The Most Worshipful The Grand Master presented cheques of a quarter of a million pounds each to two charities - Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Support. The money had been collected by the Brethren over several years and the charities were chosen by them. The proceedings were closed with a Cavalcade of Highlights of the Century, in a song and dance, against a backdrop of images of national and Masonic events and pictures of the eight Grand Masters over the last one hundred years.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/2008/53)
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Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2008/53Order of Women Freemasons - Centenary Celebration (1908-2008)7 June 2008
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Etagyneam_HuzThe Order of Women Freemasons - Centenary Celebration (1908-2008) [Private]1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4904The Order of Women Freemasons; 1908-; British fraternal organisation
DS/UK/953The Royal Academy of Music; Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music; 1822-; British orchestra
DS/UK/5081Williams; Mark (1979-); English organist, musical director
DS/UK/5088Masters; Margaret (fl 2008); English former Deputy Grand Master of the Order of Women Freemasons
DS/UK/5086Taylor; Brenda Irene Fleming- (fl 1989-); English former Grand Master of the Order of Women Freemasons
DS/UK/5087Wildman; Betty (d.2011); English former Assistant Grand Master of the Order of Women Freemasons
DS/UK/5083Penn; Zuzanka (fl 2008-); English Grand Master of the Order of Women Freemasons
DS/UK/5102Higgins; Steven (fl 2000-); English conductor, pianist
DS/UK/5103Newbigging; David (fl 1975-); OBE; British chief executive
DS/UK/5105Camilla (fl 1976-); Countess of Halifax; English landed gentry
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