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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1960 - Sixty-Sixth Season - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date17 September 1960
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersConstance Shacklock - vocal,
Gina Bachauer - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
Basil Cameron
Set List'Overture' from The Bartered Bride, Smetana,
Lyric Suite - 'The Shepherd Lad',
'Norwegian Rustic March',
'Nocturne',
'March of The Dwarfs', Grieg,
'Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor', Saint-Saens, Gina Bachauer,
'Don Juan', R Strauss,
March - 'Pomp and Circumstance No.1, in D', Elgar,
Suite - 'Beni Mora', Holst,
'Sea Songs', arr. Henry Wood,
'Rule Britannia', Arne-Sargent (Constance Shacklock),
'Jerusalem', Parry,
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed by BBC Television.

Before the start of the Proms Sir Malcolm Sargent and two police officers took to the rostrum to inform the audience that there must be no 'Ban the Bomb' (anti-nuclear) banners, or any other controversial slogans in front of the BBC television cameras.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1960/80),
Programme (RAHE/1/1960/129),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1960/5)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/J9xJ9-PJ9CI_B7
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1960/129BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1960 - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms17 September 1960
RAHE/6/1960/5BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 196023 July-17 September 1960
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ilamcdcm_SeahBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1960 - Sixty-Sixth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1560Shacklock; Constance (1913-1999); OBE; English contralto
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/3150Bachauer; Gina (21 May 1913-22 August 1976); Greek classical 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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