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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Sixty-Eighth Season - Prom 21
Performance Date14 August 1962
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMarjorie Thomas,
Ronald Dowd,
Gerald English,
John Shirley-Quirk - vocals,
Jacqueline du Pre - cello
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Chorus,
BBC Choral Society,
London Philharmonic Choir
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'A London Overture', John Ireland (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Sea-Drift', Delius (John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Cello Concerto in E Minor', Elgar (Jacqueline Du Pre, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Les Illuminations', Britten (Gerald English, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Gloria', Walton (Marjorie Thomas, Ronald Dowd, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesJacqueline du Pre was only 17 at this performance
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1962/77),
Programme (RAHE/1/1962/100)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/TeTb5VTddlBU
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1962/100BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Prom 2114 August 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/3447du Pré; Jacqueline (26 January 1945-19 October 1987); OBE; British cellist
DS/UK/1004London Philharmonic Choir; 1947-; English choir
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/6445Thomas; Marjorie (1923-2008); English opera and oratorio singer
DS/UK/10416Dowd; Ronald (1914-1990); Australian tenor
DS/UK/10268English; Gerald (1925-); English tenor
DS/UK/9334Quirk; John Shirley- (1931-2014); CBE; English bass-baritone
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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