Main Performers | Dancers: Pat Angus, James Lamb, Clans Association Dancers, The 'Orylk' Cossack Dancers, Czechoslovakian Folk Dancers, Norwegian Dancing Group, Emma Marques, Oesterreicher Volkstanz Von Tirol, Lalagia Escuela De Baile Classico Espanol, Toni Valdez with Ballet De Tropic, Les Girls Du Ballet, Dian Tevita, The 'Bush Davies' Ballet, De Havilland Rhythm Gymnast Team, Welwyn Garden City Rhythm Gymnast Team, Sokol Rhythm Gymnast Team, Danse Locale Bretonne, Irish Championship Dancers, West African Tribal Drummers and Dancers, Filipino Dance Group
Maria Fontenella, Don Poster - vocals, Letitia West - piano, John Brown - pipe major, Ralph (Hawaiian Echoes) Lancaster - electric guitar |
Orchestra or Band | WMC Symphony Orchestra, The NZer's Maori Quartet |
Choirs | Polish 'Chopin' Choir, Chopin Choir, Wembley Choral Society, Yugoslav Male Voice 'Zbor', St.Peter's Italian Choir, Dunstable Girls' Choir, Hammersmith London Welsh Male Voice |
Conductors | Roy Budden, Z A Gedl, D V Griffiths, Padre Pietro Paladini, F Perry, Morgan Jones |
Set List | Britain and USA - 'Oklahoma' (Short Selection), Rodgers, Hammerstein (WMC Symphony Orchestra), 'Rhapsody In Blue', Gershwin (West, WMC Symphony Orchestra), Scotland - Over The Water (A West Highland Fling) (Angus, Lamb, Clans Association Dancers, Brown), Sword Dance (Angus, Lamb, Clans Association Dancers, Brown), Poland - 'Podkoweczki' (The Fiery Spurs) (J Gall, Polish 'Chopin' Choir), 'Haslo' (F.Szopski, Polish 'Chopin' Choir), Poland - 'Ne Sele Siera' (The Wedding In Sieradz) (Prosnak, Chopin Choir), Ukraine - 'Horlycia' (The Dance of The Ukrainian Black Sea Cossacks) ('Orylk' Cossack Dancers), Czechoslovakia - Selection of Czech Folk Dances (Czechoslovakian Folk Dancers), Britain and Austria - 'Blue Danube', J Strauss (Wembley Choral Society), 'The Fisherman of England' (The Rebel Maid) (Phillip, Wembley Choral Society), Norway - Norwegian Festival Dance, arr. Bush-Davies School (Norwegian Dancing Group), Yugoslavia - 'Druga Rukovet', Mokranjac (Yugoslav Male Voice 'Zbor'), Mexico - 'Por Las Montanas', arr. V Romero (Marques), A Festival Dance - 'South of The Rio Grande (Marques), Austria - Tyrolean Garlnad Dance (Oesterreicher Volkstanz Von Tirol), Italy - 'Rosabella' (Folk Song), Di Lazzero (St. Peter's Italian Choir), 'O'Marinariello' (Neopolitan Serenade), S Gambardecia (Fontenella), 'Rosamarie', Russo (St. Peter's Italian Choir), New Zealand - Traditional Maori Song and Harka (War Cry) (NZer's Maori Quartet), Spain - 'Jota Aragones' (Lalagia Escuela De Baile Classico Espanol), Britain and The Continent - 'Pipes of Pan', Strauss (Dunstable Girls' Choir), 'Espana', Chabrier (Dunstable Girls' Choir), West Indies - 'Jamaica-Linstead Market-Carnival-And It's 'Fiesta Time'' (Toni Valdez With Ballet De Tropic), France - Can Can (Les Girls Du Ballet), Britain - Short Selection from 'Die Fledermaus', J Strauss (WMC Symphony Orchestra), 'Scherzo-Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Litolff (West, WMC Symphony Orchestra), Fiji and Hawaii - Hula-Hula, Dian Tevita (Ralph (Hawaiian Echoes) Lancaster, USA - 'Jolson Memories', Don Poster, Modern Rhapsody, Bush Davies Ballet Search for an Opera and Concert Star Contest, International All Girl Rhythm Gymnast Teams Contst, 'De Havilland', arr. Pettie (Welwyn Garden City Sokol) Search for Ukranian Dancing Star Contest, France - Breton Passepied (Danse Locale Bretonne), Ireland - The Wheel of fortune (Irish Championship Dancers), West Africa - 'Sowu', 'Agbadza', 'Sogba' (West African Tribal Drummers and Dancers), Philippine Islands - Tinikling (Filipino Dance Group), Wales - 'Soldiers Chorus', from Faust, Gounod, 'Land of My Fathers', 'Serenade', Schubert, 'Cymru'n un -Wales United', arr. Lewis (Hammersmith London Welsh Male Voice Choir), Haiti - Voodoo-Black Magic-Mystery-Sacrifices-And The Sacred Ritual of The Primeval Jungle (Toni Valdez with Ballet De Tropic), Ukraine - A Special Presentation Folk Dance of The Ukraine, 'Land of Hope and Glory' (WMC Symphony Orchestra), 'Auld Lang Syne' (WMC Symphony Orchestra) |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1953/138) |