Record

Performance TitleUSSR Fiftieth Birthday Celebration
Performance Date22 October 1967
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersVatslovas Daunoras - vocal,
Karine Georgyan - cello,
Alexander Slobodyanik,
Alla Maloletkova - pianos,
Eduard Grach - violin
Secondary PerformersSoviet Ambassador - Mr Smirnovsky
Madame Smirnovskaya,
Lt.-Colonel Valery Bykovsky (cosmonaut)
Laurence Bradshaw (Chairman),
Lord Boothby (Conservative Party),
Lord Collison (TUC),
John Gollan (Communist Party),
Lord Wade,
Mrs Renee Short MP,
Andre Van Gyseghem,
Howard Goorney,
Harry Landis,
Hilary Crane
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem),
'Russian National Anthem',
'The Soviets Have Come To Stay', Colin Williams (Andre Van Gysegham, Howard Goorney, Harry Landis, Hilary Crane),
'Adagio', Bach (Karine Georgyan),
'Nocturne', Tchaikovsky (Karine Georgyan),
'Scherzo', Shaporin (Karine Georgyan),
'Prelude and Fugue', Shostakovich (Alexander Slobodyanik),
'Two Mazurkas', Chopin (Alexander Slobodyanik),
'Preludes', Shostakovich (Eduard Grach),
'Violin Rhapsody 'Gypsy'', Ravel (Eduard Grach),
'Philip's Aria' from Don Carlos, Verdi (Vatslovas Daunoras),
'I Bless You, Forests', Tchaikovsky (Vatslovas Daunoras),
'Green Fields' (Vatslovas Daunoras),
'A Shakespearian Sonnet', Kabalevsky (Vatslovas Daunoras)
Performance Notes"Colonel Bykovsky, speaking with the aid of an interpreter, brought greetings from Yuri Gagarin and other cosmonauts and got another burst of applause. They had just celebrated the tenth birthday of the first sputnik (applause) and now the Russians had landed a space craft on Venus (applause), he said. 'Before meeting you I saw this country from space during my flight,' he said with a smile. It is much better to meet the people down here on earth."
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1967/156)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1967/156USSR Fiftieth Birthday Celebration22 October 1967
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Aixabevob_RosUSSR Fiftieth Birthday Celebration1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/11781Slobodyanik; Alexander (1941-2008); Ukrainian pianist
DS/UK/13135Boothby; Lord; Robert (12 February 1900-16 July 1986); Baron Boothby, KBE; British Conservative politician
DS/UK/10310Gollan; John (1911-1977); Scottish leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain
DS/UK/16917Crane; Hilary (c1935-2009); British actress
DS/UK/16916Landis; Harry (1931-); British actor
DS/UK/16914Gyseghem; André van (1906-1979); English actor, theatre director
DS/UK/16915Goorney; Howard (1921-2007); British actor
DS/UK/16913Short; Renée (1919-2003); British Labour Party politician
DS/UK/16912Wade; Lord; Donald William (1904-1988); British solicitor, Liberal Party politician
DS/UK/16911Collison; Lord; Harold Francis (1909-1995); Baron Collison, CBE; British trade unionist
DS/UK/16910Bradshaw; Laurence (1899-1978); English sculptor, printmaker, artist
DS/UK/16909Bykovsky; Valery Fyodorovich (1934-); Russian cosmonaut
DS/UK/16908Smirnovsky; Mikhail Nikolayevich (fl 1960s); Russian diplomat
DS/UK/16907Grach; Eduard (1930-); Russian violinist, conductor
DS/UK/16906Maloletkova; Alla (fl 1967); Russian pianist
DS/UK/13482Georgian; Karine (1944-); Russian cellist
DS/UK/16904Daunoras; Vatslovas (fl 1967); Russian baritone
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