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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1954 - Sixtieth Season - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date18 September 1954
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersConstance Shacklock - vocal,
Moura Lympany - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
Basil Cameron
Set ListOverture - 'Cockaigne', E Elgar,
Scherzo - 'L'Apprenti Sorcier', Dukas,
'Symphonic Variations', Franck (Lympany),
'Symphony in C', Bizet,
March - 'Pomp and Circumstance No.1 in D', E Elgar
ENCORES
'Pomp and Circumstance No.1 in D', E Elgar,
'Capriccio Espagnol', Rimsky-Korsakov,
'Sea Songs', arr. H Wood,
'Rule Britannia', Arne-Sargent (Shacklock),
'Rule Britannia', Arne-Sargent (Shacklock),
'Jerusalem', H Parry,
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesProms premiere of 'Symphony in C', Bizet.

The event was broadcast on BBC Television.

294,000 people attended the 1954 60th Season of the BBC Proms.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1954/68),
Programme (RAHE/1/1954/121),
3 Photographs (RAHE/3/1954/1-4)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1954/121Sixtieth Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Constance Shacklock - Moura Lympany - Sir Malcolm Sargent - Basil Cameron18 September 1954
RAHE/3/1954/4Photograph of Last Night of the Proms (LNOP) with Malcolm Sargent 18 September 1954
RAHE/3/1954/3 Photograph of Last Night of the Proms (LNOP) with Sir Malcolm Sargent 18 September 1954
RAHE/3/1954/1Photograph of Last Night of the Proms (LNOP) with Sir Malcolm Sargent and Constance Shacklock 18 September 1954
RAHE/3/1954/2Photograph of Last Night of the Proms (LNOP) with Sir Malcolm Sargent and Constance Shacklock 18 September 1954
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ulanymyg_BaihBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1954 - Sixtieth Season - Diamond Jubilee 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/1560Shacklock; Constance (1913-1999); OBE; English contralto
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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