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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1957 - Sixty-Third Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date20 July 1957
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJoyce Barker - vocal,
Eileen Joyce - piano,
Charles Spinks - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent
Set ListMarch - 'Pomp and Circumstance No.4 in G', Elgar,
'Symphony No.4 in A' (Italian), Mendelssohn,
Aria - 'Pace Pace Mio Dio' from La Forza Del Destino, Verdi (Joyce Barker),
'Enigma Variations', Elgar,
'Overture' from Die Meistersinger, Wagner,
'Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor', Saint-Saens (Eileen Joyce),
'Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', Britten
Performance NotesThe event was filmed by BBC Television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1957/72),
Programme (RAHE/1/1957/73)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1957/72Henry Wood Promenade Concerts20 July-14 September 1957
RAHE/1/1957/73BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1957 - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms20 July 1957
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ookonovcp_SoomBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1957 - Sixty-Third Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1519Joyce; Eileen (1 January 1908-25 March 1991); CMG; Australian 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/9973Barker; Joyce (6 June 1931-23 May 1992); South African soprano singer
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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