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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1953 - Fifty-Ninth Season - Prom 8 - Tchaikovsky Concert
Performance Date3 August 1953
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJoan Cross,
Roderick Jones - vocals,
Mewton-Wood -piano,
Charles Spinks - celesta
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set List'Marche Slave', Tchaikovsky,
'The Pilgrim's Song', Tchaikovsky (Jones),
'Don Juan's Serenade', Tchaikovsky (Jones),
'Piano Concerto No.1 in B Flat Minor', Tchaikovsky (Mewton-Wood),
'Nutcracker Suite', Tchaikovsky,
'Tatiana's Letter Song' from Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky (Cross),
'Romeo and Juliet', Tchaikovsky
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1953/83),
Programme (RAHE/1/1953/91)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/5f5I1A5o-2Wq
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1953/91Fifty Ninth Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - Joan Cross, Roderick Jones and Mewton-Wood3 August 1953
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Uzogenas_BeapBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1953 - Fifty-Ninth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/3748Cross; Joan (1900-1993); English soprano
DS/UK/3170Jones; Roderick (1910-1992); British baritone
DS/UK/2664Mewton-Wood; Noel (20 November 1922-5 December 1953); Australian concert pianist
DS/UK/8828Spinks; Charles (1915-1992); British harpsichordist, organist, composer, arranger
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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