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Performance TitleRoyal Choral Society (Seventy-Eighth Season 1948-1949) - Handel's 'Messiah'
Performance Date15 January 1949
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersIsobel Baillie,
Gladys Ripley,
Heddle Nash,
Norman Walker - vocals,
Arnold Greir - organ
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'God Save the King' (The National Anthem),
'Messiah', Handel
Performance NotesThe event included an interval.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1949/10)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1949/10Royal Choral Society - Handel's 'Messiah'15 January 1949
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ifamievep_BopRoyal Choral Society (Seventy-Ninth Season 1948-1949)11
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1218Baillie; Dame; Isobel (9 March 1895-24 September 1983); DBE; Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/1247Ripley; Gladys (1908-1955); English contralto
DS/UK/1360Nash; William 'Heddle' (1894-1961); English tenor
DS/UK/3285Walker; Norman (1907-1963); English bass singer
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
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