Main Performers | Jan Van Der Gucht, Maurice Bevan - vocals |
Orchestra or Band | Black Dyke Mills, Cory Workmen's Silver, The Fairey Aviation Works, Morris Motors, Munn and Felton's Works, Scottish CWS |
Choirs | The London Songmen, Barrow Working Men's Club and Institute Male Voice Choir, Birkenhead Male Voice Choir, Bury St. Edmunds Bach Choir, Exonian Singers, Oxford, High Wycombe Orpheus Male Voice Choir, Ipswich Male Voice Choir, Metropolitan Police Athletic Association Choral Society Consisting of the Male Voice Choirs of individual Police Divisions Oxford Welsh Glee Singers, Sudbury and District Musical Society, Tonbridge School Choir, Treorchy Male Choir, Warrington Males Choral Union |
Conductors | Sir Adrian Boult, Harry Mortimer, Dr Denis Wright |
Set List | PART 1 'Festival March', William Alwyn (Commisioned for the Festival of Britain, Massed Bands), 'The Severn Suite', Elgar (Massed Bands), 'Introduction to Act 3' from Lohengrin, Wagner (Massed Bands) PART 2: The London Songmen as 'The Watch Below' (Massed Bands, Choirs, Van Der Gucht, Bevan), 'The Rainbow', arr. Frank Wright (Massed Bands, Choirs, Van Der Gucht, Bevan) PART 3 Symphonic Prelude - 'Promethus Unbound', Bantock (Massed Bands), 'Prelude to Revelry', Gordan Jacob (Massed Bands), First Suite in Eb - 'Chaconne', 'Intermezzo', 'March', Holst (Massed Bands), Grande March - 'Spirit of Pageantry', Percy Fletcher (Massed Bands) |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1951/110) |