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Performance TitleNational Memorial Concert, In Commemoration of His Late Most Gracious Majesty, King Edward VII
Performance Date22 May 1910
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time15:30
Main PerformersMadame Ada Crossley,
Mr Ben Davies - vocals,
Mr F A Sewell - organ
Orchestra or BandNew Symphony Orchestra,
Drummers of the Grenadier Guards
ConductorsSir Charles Stanford
Set ListFuneral March 'Marche Funebre', Chopin,
'Prelude and Angel's Farewell' from Dream of Gerotius, Elgar (Ada Crossley),
Air: 'Be Thou Faithful Unto Death' from St. Paul, Mendelssohn (Ben Davies),
'Marcia Funebre and Finale' (Eroica Symphony), Beethoven,
Scena: 'Recompense' (War and Peace), Parry (Ada Crossley),
Orchestral Interlude: 'The Martyrdom' from Tennyson's 'Becket, Stanford,
Air: 'Refrain Thy Voice From Weeping' from Light of the World, Sullivan (Ben Davies),
'Dead March' from Saul, Handel
'The National Anthem'
Performance Notes"There was not an empty seat at the Albert Hall yesterday afternoon when the programme of the Sunday concert was so arranged as to form a tribute to the memory of King Edward VII. The vast building was, indeed, a veritable sea of black, in which the only splash of colour was afforded by the bright uniforms of a contingent of the band of the Grenadier Guards, by which the New Symphony Orchestra was reinforced."
(The Daily Telegraph, 23 May 1910)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1910/1)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1910/1National Memorial Concert - In Commemoration of his Late Most Gracious Majesty, King Edward VII22, 29 May 1910
RAHE/1/1910/19/SCSunday Concerts - National Memorial Concert on the death of Edward VII22, 29 May 1910
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IopomaisiominefNational Memorial Concert - In Commemoration of His Late Most Gracious Majesty, King Edward VII2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3984Crossley; Ada Jemima (1874-1929); Australian singer
DS/UK/1616Davies; Ben (1858-1943); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/3843Sewell; F A (fl 1890s-1910s); British organist
DS/UK/324New Symphony Orchestra; c1905-c 1931; English orchestra
DS/UK/1870Band of the HM Grenadier Guards (1685)
DS/UK/1703Stanford; Sir; Charles Villiers (1852-1924); Irish composer, teacher, conductor
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