Main Performers | Bob Holness, Lon Satton, Nanette Newman, Diana Rigg, Jimmy Tarbuck, Paul Goddard, Dr Kenneth Farquhar, Jean Boht
National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, Chicken Shed Theatre Company
Lesley Garrett, Stephen Pollard, Clarke Peters, Helen Parkinson, Timothy Button, Paul Nicholas - vocals, Larry Adler - harmonica, Osian Ellis - harp |
Secondary Performers | Lord Colwyn, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Lord Preston, Lord Carter, Lord Tordoff, Lord Addington, Lord St. John, Lord Broadbridge, Lord Redesdale, Viscount Torrington - Members of the House of Lords |
Orchestra or Band | Pipes and Drums of 1st Battalion Irish Guards, Pipers of the Scots Guards Association, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Branch, Massed Fanfare Trumpeters of the Household Division, English Philharmonia Orchestra, Lon Satton's Musicians, Chicken Shed Theatre Company Band |
Choirs | London Oriana Choir, London Pro Arte Choir, Wembley Gospel Choir |
Set List | eFanfare, 'A Christmas Fanfare', arr. Lovett, 'Little Donkey', Eric Boswell, 'O Come All Ye Faithful', F J Wade, arr. David Willcocks, 'Unto Us is Born a Son' (Piae Cantiones, 1582), arr. Willcocks, 'Every Time I Feel a Spirit', arr. Lon Satton, 'Gonna Build a Mountain', Bricusse, Newley, arr. Lon Satton (Lon Satton, Members of the Wembley Gospel Choir), 'Come to Bethlehem', Peter Warlock, 'O Little Town of Bethlehem', arr. Vaughan Williams, desc. Thomas Armstrong, 'Merry Christmas Everyone' (Nanette Newman), 'Gloria', from Vespers, Rachmaninoff, 'The Cowboy Carol', Cecil Broadhurst, arr. Leon Lovett (National Youth Ballet of Great Britain), 'Let the Bright Seraphim', Handel (Lesley Garrett), 'See Amid the Winter's Snow', John Goss, arr. David Willcocks, 'Blessed are the Men who Fear Him' from Elijah, Mendelssohn, 'Nativity' (Chicken Shed Theatre Company), 'I Don't Know if I Believe in Christmas', Jo Collins, 'Journey', 'World Born', arr. Liz Kitchen, 'Joy to the World', Handel, arr. Lowell Mason (Lesley Garrett) INTERVAL 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen', arr. Willcocks, 'The Cherry Tree Carol' (Stephen Pollard, Osian Ellis), 'Little Donkey', Eric Boswell, Adam Boon, 'The Donkey', G.K.Chesterton (Diana Rigg), 'Coventry Carol' from Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, arr. Martin Shaw, '12 Days of Christmas' (Jimmy Tarbuck), 'Ring Out, Wild Bells', Percy E Fletcher, Appeal (Nanette Newman), 'The First Nowell', arr. Willcocks, 'Once in Royal David's City', J Gauntlett, harm. A H Mann, desc. Willcocks (Timothy Button, Helen Parkinson), 'It Ain't Necessarily So' from Porgy and Bess, Gershwin (Larry Adler, Clarke Peters), 'Angel's Carol', arr. John Rutter (Helen Parkinson, Timothy Button), 'Good King Wenceslas', J M Neale, arr. Jacque, Lovett (Jean Boht, Stephen Pollard) ((Letter by Michael Green and Rosemary Anne Sisson), 'Stille Nacht', Franz Gruber, arr. Lovett, 'Away in a Manger', W J Kirkpatrick, arr. Willcocks (Helen Parkinson, Timothy Button), 'Any Dream Will Do' from (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Lloyd Webber, 'Hosanna' from Jesus Christ Superstar, Lloyd Webber (Paul Nicholas), 'Have a Heart at Christmas', Jo Collins (Larry Adler, Chicken Shed Theatre Company), Arrival of Father Christmas, 'Jingle Bells', J Pierpoint, arr. Willcocks, 'Hark! the Herald Angels Sing', Mendelssohn, arr. Willcocks, 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas', arr. Arthur Warrel, 'We Need a Little Christmas!', Jerry Herman |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1993/151), Transparencies (RAHE/3/14/24) |