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Performance TitleA Time for Growing - Youth and Music with Antony Hopkins - London Premiere
Performance Date1 April 1969
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersBernard Dickerson,
Simon Stuart,
Christopher Davies,
Norman Dodds,
Angela Beale,
Paul Moss,
Lance Gribbin,
Stephen Dowson - vocals
Orchestra or BandHaberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree Orchestra,
Henrietta Barnett School, London Orchestra,
Francis Bacon Grammar School, St. Albans Orchestra
ChoirsHaberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree Choir,
Henrietta Barnett School, London Choir,
Francis Bacon Grammar School, St. Albans Choir
ConductorsAntony Hopkins
Set List'A Time for Growing' (A Musical Parable), Nesta Pain, Antony Hopkins
Performance NotesThe event was recorded by BBC Sound.

'A Time for Growing' was, "...an attempt to present to children, by means or music and mime, the dilemma of an age which has lost religious faith and found in science no substitute for its consolations." (The Daily Telegraph, 2 April 1969)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1969/34)
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Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1969/34A Time for Growing - Youth and Music with Antony Hopkins - First London Performance1 April 1969
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Imavohof_R_MA Time for Growing - Youth and Music with Antony Hopkins - London Premiere1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/14505Dickerson; Bernard (fl 1960s-1970s); British tenor
DS/UK/11117Beale; Angela (fl 1960s-1970s); English soprano
DS/UK/15628Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School; 1690-; British indipendent boys school
DS/UK/9240Hopkins; Antony (1921-2014); CBE; English composer, pianist, conductor, radio broadcaster, writer
DS/UK/17889Henrietta Barnett School; 1911-; English grammar school
DS/UK/17888Pain; Nesta Florence (1905-1995); English broadcaster, author, playwright
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