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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1948 - Fifty-Forth Season - Prom 48
Performance Date17 September 1948
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJoan Hammond,
Mary Jarred,
Parry Jones,
Norman Walker - vocals,
Arnold Greir - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Overture' from Alceste, Gluck,
'Symphony No.9 in D Minor' (Choral), Beethoven (Joan Hammond, Mary Jarred, Parry Jones, Norman Walker, Royal Choral Society)
INTERVAL
'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis', Vaughan Williams,
'Blest Pair of Sirens', Parry (Royal Choral Society)
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1948/160),
Programme (RAHE/1/1948/215)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx?-r4-rRV-RQ0pqc
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1948/215BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1948 - Fifty-Forth Season - Prom 4817 September 1948
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Eraxesez_BoxBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1948: Fifty-Forth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1553Hammond; Dame; Joan Hilda Hood (1912-1996); DBE, CMG; Australian operatic soprano, singing coach, champion golfer
DS/UK/1307Jarred; Mary (1899-1993); English opera singer
DS/UK/2133Jones; Gwynn Parry (1891-1963); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/3285Walker; Norman (1907-1963); English bass singer
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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