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Performance TitleMr Percy Harrison's Grand Benefit Concert
Performance Date29 November 1907
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time20.00
Main PerformersMadame Adelina Patti,
Madame Ada Crossley,
Mr Ben Davies,
Sir Charles Santley,
Edith Kingsford - vocals,
Irene Scharrer - piano
Vivien Chartres - violin
Mr H L Balfour - organ
Secondary PerformersMr Wilhelm Ganz,
Mr F A Sewell - accompanists
ChoirsThe Layton Ladies' Choir
ConductorsMrs Mary Layton
Set ListGrand Organ - 'Rhapsodie Op.7, No.2 (Sur des Cantiques Breton)', Saint-Saens (H L Balfour),
Motett - 'Surrexit', Mendelssohn (The Layton Ladies' Choir),
Solo violin - 'Scene de la Czardas', Hubay (Vivien Chartres),
Recit: and Air - 'Angels, Ever Bright and Fair' (Thedora), Handel (Adelina Patti),
Recit: and Air - I Rage! I Melt! I Burn!....O! Ruddier Than the Cherry', (Acis and Galatea), Handel (Sir Charles Santley)
Part Song - 'Ave Maria', Marchetti (The Layton Ladies' Choir, Edith Kingsford),
Recit: and Air - 'On with the Motley' (I Pagliacci), Leoncavallo (Mr. Ben Davies),
Serenade - 'Gondoliera', Henri Hertz (Adelina Patti, Vivien Chartres)
INTERVAL
Piano solo - 'Rhapsodie No.12', Liszt (Irene Scharrer)
Vocal Waltz - 'Ah! Che Assorta', Luigi Venzano (Adelina Patti),
Patriotic Song - 'A Health Unto His Majesty', J Saville (Sir Charles Santley),
Songs - 'Christmas Bells', S Liddle (Ada Crossley),
'Through Love to Light', C Wynne (Ada Crossley, H L Balfour),
Solo Piano - 'Concert Etude', Macdowell (Irene Scharrer),
Serenade - 'Through the Night My Songs Adjure Thee', Schubert (Ben Davies)
Part Song - 'Come, Sisters, Come!', A C Mackenzie (The Layton Ladies' Choir),
Great Organ - 'Choral Song and Fugue', S Wesley (H L Balfour)
ENCORE
'Pur Dicesti', Lotti (Adelina Patti),
'Serenade', Gounod (Adelina Patti),
'Home Sweet Home', Sir H Bishop (Adelina Patti)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1907/4Percy Harrison's Grand Benefit Concert29 November 1907
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iexas_Towk_LilMr Percy Harrison's Grand Benefit Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3928Patti; Adelina (1843-1919); Baroness Cederström; Spanish soprano singer
DS/UK/3984Crossley; Ada Jemima (1874-1929); Australian singer
DS/UK/1616Davies; Ben (1858-1943); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/3982Santley; Sir; Charles (1834-1922); British opera singer
DS/UK/1346Scharrer; Irene (1888-1971); English classical pianist
DS/UK/4696Chartres; Vivien (1893-1941); English violinist, child prodigy
DS/UK/1614Balfour; H L (28 October 1859-27 December 1946); British organist and teacher
DS/UK/4396Layton; Mary (1849-1929); English organist, pianist
DS/UK/4878Harrison; Percy (1846-1917); English concert director
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