Record

Performance TitleA Festival of Primary Schools Music
Performance Date22 June 1968
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersHarrow Schools' Music Association,
Newbury Schools' Music Association,
Slough and Newbury Associations,
Slough Schools' Music Association,
Bromley Schools' Music Association,
Primary Schools from Haringey,
Berkshire LEA,
Buckinghamshire LEA,
Essex LEA,
Kent LEA,
Surrey LEA,
Acton Schools Music Association,
Barking Schools Music Association,
Brent Schools Music Association,
Bromley Schools Music Association,
Chigwell Schools Music Association,
Chingford Schools Music Association,
Ealing Schools Music Association,
Enfield Schools Music Association,
Haringey Schools Music Association,
Harrow Schools Music Association,
High Wycombe Schools Music Association,
Leyton Schools Music Association,
Medway Towns Schools Music Association,
Merton Schools Music Association,
Newbury Schools Music Association,
Redbridge Schools Music Association,
Slough Schools Music Association,
Sutton Schools Music Association,
Thames-side Schools Music Association

Richard Popplewell - organ, piano,
Roy Slack,
June Nunn - pianos,
Jack Hamilton - bass
Orchestra or BandJacques String Orchestra,
The Countryside Players (Pat Shaw, Denis Smith, Nan Fleming-Williams)
ChoirsChoir of 1,000 Voices
ConductorsDavid Willcocks,
Philip Pfaff
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem),
'I Love All Beauteous Things', Christopher LeFleming (Choir of 1,000 Voices),
'Little Soanish Town', Peter Jenkyns (Choir of 1,000 Voices),
'The Song of The Soldiers', Victor Hely Hutchinson (Choir of 1,000 Voices)
English Folk Dances - Yorkshire Square Eight, Virginian Reel, Fireman's Dance, Butterfly Hornpipe ('The Countryside Players, Jack Hamilton, Harrow Schools' Music Association),
Primary Orchestra - Folk Songs arranged for Percussion, Recorders and Strings - 'Winter', Brian Bonsor (Newbury Schools' Music Association), 'The Old Woman and the Pedlar' (Newbury Schools' Music Association),
Primary Orchestra - 'Rondeau' from Abdelazer, Purcell, arr. Brian Bonsor (freely arranged for Percussion, Recorders and Strings) (Newbury Schools' Music Association),
'Ching-A-Ring Chaw' (Minstrel Song), arr. A Copland (Choir of 1,000 Voices),
'Space Travellers', David Stone (Choir of 1,000 Voices),
'The Three Unlucky Men' (based on a traditional Calypso Tune), W H Parry (Choir of 1,000 Voices, recorder obligato by pupils from Slough and Newbury Associations),
European Folk Dances - Kleiner Schottisch, Kontramarsch, Breton Dance, Meitschi Putz-Di (The Countryside Players, Jack Hamilton, Harrow Schools' Music Association)
Primary Orchestra - 'Toy Symphony' (1st Movt.), Leopold Mozart, arr. M Tolhurst (Slough Schools' Music Association), 'Dance-East and West', Christopher Steel (Slough Schools' Music Association),
'Where'er You Walk' from Semele, Handel (Choir of 1,000 Voices),
'The Shepherd', Percy Judd (Choir of 1,000 Voices),
'The Turtle Dove', arr. R Vaughan Williams (Choir of 1,000 Voices),
Creative Work - 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' (Bromley Schools' Music Association),
'Folk Song Suite' (conducted by the composer), Philip Pfaff (Choir of 1,000 Voices, instrumental accompaniment by Primary Schools from Haringey),
'Psalm 150', Britten (Choir of 1,000 Voices),
'Tallis' Canon', arr. Kenneth Brown (Choir of 1,000 Voices)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1968/84)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1968/83A Festival of Primary Schools Music22 June 1968
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Olah_Hois_RegA Festival of Primary Schools Music1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/9742Popplewell; Richard (1935-); English organist, pianist
DS/UK/12014Hamilton; Jack (c1919-2007); British folk dancer, bassist
DS/UK/2709Jacques Orchestra; 1936-; British orchestra
DS/UK/12011Shaw; Patrick "Pat" Shuldham- (fl 1950s-1960s); British folk dancer, ethnomusicologist
DS/UK/11434Williams; Nan Fleming- (fl 1950s-1960s); British folk dancer, violinist
DS/UK/17412Nunn; June (fl 1968); British pianist
DS/UK/17410Slack; Roy (fl 1968); British pianist
DS/UK/17409Pfaff; Philip (fl 1960s); British organist, composer, conductor
DS/UK/5468Willcocks; Sir; David (30 December 1919-17 September 2015); CBE MC; British conductor, organist and composer
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