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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1948 - Fifty-Forth Season - Prom 8
Performance Date2 August 1948
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMargherita Grandi - vocal,
Eileen Joyce - piano,
Arnold Greir - organ,
George Eskdale -trumpet
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsBasil Cameron
Set List'Trumpet Voluntary', Clarke, arr. H Wood (George Eskdale, Arnold Greir),
'Piano Concerto in A Minor', Grieg (Eileen Joyce),
Aria, 'Pace, Pace Mio Dio' (La Forza Del Destino), Verdi (Margherita Grandi),
'Symphony No.5 in E Minor' (New World) Dvorak,
'Mother Goose Suite', Ravel,
Aria, 'Vissi D'Arte' from Tosca, Puccini (Margherita Grandi),
'Polovtsian Dances' from Prince Igor, Borodin
Performance NotesFor this concert side screens at the back of the orchestra were removed, allowing 400 people to st on either side of the orchestra, which helped add more solid body of tone to the orchestra nad reduce the notorious echo. (The Daily Telegraph, 3 August 1948)
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1948/160),
Programme (RAHE/1/1948/169)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1948/169BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1948 - Fifty-Forth Season - Prom 82 August 1948
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Eraxesez_BoxBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1948: Fifty-Forth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7568Grandi; Margherita (1894-1972); Italian soprano
DS/UK/1519Joyce; Eileen (1 January 1908-25 March 1991); CMG; Australian pianist
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
DS/UK/6298Eskdale; George (1897-1960); British trumpeter
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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