Record

Performance TitlePitman's School - Prize-Giving and Concert
Performance Date12 December 1925
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersEarl of Birkenhead (Secretary of State for India),
Mr Frederick Heelis (Governor),
Dr R H Holland (Principal) - speakers

Madeline Hylton,
Thorpe Bates,
Flora Woodman,
Florence Fielden,
Cecilia Farrar,
Robert Naylor - vocals

Albert Thompson - organ,
Minna Tomchinsky - violin,
W V Robinson - mouth-organ
Secondary PerformersMadame Adami - piano
Orchestra or BandBand of HM Welsh Guards
ChoirsSamuel Coleridge-Taylor Choir
ConductorsLieutenant Andrew Harris
Douglas M Durston
Set ListAddress (Earl of Birkenhead),
Address (Frederick Heelis and Dr R H Holland),
Prize-Giving

Concert:
Organ Soli: 'Overture in B', Faulkes (Albert Thompson),
'March', Gounod (Albert Thompson),
'Toccata', D'Evry (Albert Thompson),
'Fantasia on Scottish Airs', Peace (Albert Thompson),
Grand Overture Symphonique 'Maximillian Robespierre', Litolff (HM Welsh Guards),
Waltz Song: 'Tom Jones', German (Madeline Hylton),
'Song of Prosperine', Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choir),
'The Lee Shore', Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choir),
Song: 'Young Dietrich', George Henschel (Thorpe Bates),
'Welsh Rhapsody', German (HM Welsh Guards),
Violin Solo: 'Ballade et Polonaise', Vieuxtemps (Minna Tomchinsky),
Grande Valse: 'Ah Che Assorta, Op.10', Venzano (Flora Woodman),
'It Comes From The Misty Ages' (The Banner of St George Op.33), Elgar (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choir, HM Welsh Guards),
'Sea Drift', Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choir),
Songs: 'Softly Awakes My Heart' (Samson et Dalila), Saint-Saens (Florence Fielden),
'Joggin' Along the Highway', Harold Samuel (Thorpe Bates),
'Songs My Mother Taught Me', Dvorak (Flora Woodman),
'At The Well', Hageman (Flora Woodman),
'The Vesper Hymn', arr. Flora Woodman (Flora Woodman),
Duet: 'Lovely Maid In The Moonlight' (La Boheme), Puccini (Cecilia Farrar, Robert Naylor),
Entracte 'The Wedding of the Rose', Jessel (HM Welsh Guards),
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) (Choir and Band)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1925/50)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1925/50Pitmans School - Prize-Giving and Concert12 December 1925
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OkovoixezipifPitmans School - Prize-Giving and Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2816Hylton; Madeline (fl 1924-1925); British singer
DS/UK/2132Thorpe Bates; Thomas (1881-1958); FRAM FGSM; English singer
DS/UK/309Woodman; Flora (fl 1914-1930); Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/3107Fielden; Florence (fl 1925); British singer
DS/UK/2363Farrar; Cecilia (fl 1922); Australian singer
DS/UK/2200Naylor; Robert (1899-1968); English tenor
DS/UK/3108Thompson; Albert (fl 1925-1926); English organist
DS/UK/3109Tomchinsky; Minna (fl 1925); Russian violinist
DS/UK/3110Robinson; W. V. (-1927); Canadian mouth-organ player
DS/UK/553British Army; Band of the Welsh Guards; 1915-; Welsh military band
DS/UK/3111Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choir; fl 1925; British choir
DS/UK/1313Pitman's College; 1870-; English secretarial and business training college
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