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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1942 - Forty-Eighth Season - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date22 August 1942
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time18:00
Main PerformersHenry Wendon - vocal,
Louis Kentner - piano,
Sidonie Goossens - harp obbligato,
Ernest Hall - trumpet,
Berkeley Mason - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Henry Wood,
Sir Adrian Boult,
Basil Cameron
Set ListOverture, 'Egmont', Beethoven,
'Knight in Armour', R Gipps,
'Onaway! Awake' from Hiawatha, S Coleridge Taylor (Henry Wendon),
'Dance Rhapsody No.1 in A', Delius,
'Piano Concerto No.2 in A', Liszt (Louis Kentner),
'Song of Creation' from The Immortal Hour, Rutland Boughton (Henry Wendon, Sidonie Goosens),
'Faery Song' from The Immortal Hour, Rutland Boughton (Henry Wendon, Sidonie Goossens),
'Italian Capriccio', Tchaikovsky,
'Trumpet Voluntary', Purcell-Wood (Ernest Hall, Berkeley Mason),
'Fantasia on British Sea-Songs', arr. H J Wood,
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesPremiere of 'Knight in Armour', Ruth Gipps.

Last Prom of the season - the concerts were cut short in August due to concerns from the BBC, the Ministry of Home Security and the Hall's Council, about the growing use of V-weapons during the Second World War.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1942/55),
Programme (RAHE/1/1942/106),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1942/3)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1942/106BBC Promenade Concerts - Sir Henry Wood's Forty-Eighth Season - Prom 49 - Last Concert Of The Season22 August 1942
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
UsakiorobifiobBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1942 - Forty-Eighth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1335Wendon; Henry (fl 1930s); British operatic tenor
DS/UK/2547Kentner; Louis (1905-1987); Hungarian pianist
DS/UK/6410Goossens; Sidonie (1899-2004); OBE; British harpist
DS/UK/1579Mason; Berkeley (fl 1917-1930); English organist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/39Wood; Sir; Henry (3 March 1869 – 19 August 1944); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/358Boult; Sir; Adrian (8 April 1889-22 February 1983); CH; English conductor
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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