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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Sixty-Eighth Season - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date15 September 1962
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMonica Sinclair,
Alfred Orda - vocals,
Moura Lympany - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
Basil Cameron
Set List'Overture Di Ballo', Sullivan (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Mazeppa's Arioso' from Mazeppa, Tchaikovsky (Alfred Orda, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Four Sea Interludes' from Peter Grimes, Britten (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor', Saint-Saens (Moura Lympany, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Mephisto-Walzer', Liszt (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Pomp and Circumstance No.1 in D', Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'From Bohemia's Fields and Woods', Smetana (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Sea Songs', arr. Henry Wood (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Rule Britannia', Arne (Monica Sinclair, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Jerusalem', Parry (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'God Save the Queen', (National Anthem)
Performance NotesProms premiere of 'Mazeppa's Arioso', from Mazeppa, Tchaikovsky.
This concert was the last concert for violinist Paul Beard, leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for twenty-six years and more than 700 Prom's concerts. Sir Malcolm Sargent paid tribute to him and the Prommers presented him with a silver hair brush and comb to huge applause.
The event was filmed by BBC Television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1962/77),
Programme (RAHE/1/1962/129)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1962/130BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms15 September 1962
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oozaloimon_MohBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Sixty-Eighth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/7027Sinclair; Monica (1925-2002); British contralto
DS/UK/3156Orda; Alfred (1914-2004); Polish baritone
DS/UK/1494Lympany; Dame; Moura (1916-2005); English concert pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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