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Performance TitleLondon Ballad Concerts (Fifty-Fourth Season 1919-1920) - First Concert
Performance Date27 September 1919
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersMiss Flora Woodman,
Miss Carrie Tubb,
Miss Megan Foster,
Miss Phyllis Lett,
Miss Astra Desmond,
Mr Herbert Cave,
Mr Arthur Jordan,
Mr Topliss Green,
Mr Ivor Foster - vocals,
Melsa - violin,
Berkeley Mason - organ
Secondary PerformersMr S Liddle,
Mr Berkeley Mason
ChoirsThe Gresham Singers
Set ListOrgan Solo: 'Festive March', Smart (Berkeley Mason),
'June', Roger Quilter (Astra Desmond),
'The Rose of Perfect Love', Wilfrid Sanderson (Herbert Cave),
'The Flower Song', Agnes Lambert (Flora Woodman),
'On the Idle Hill of Summer' (A Shropshire Lad), Arthur Somervell (Ivor Foster),
'The Street Sounds To The Soldiers' Tread' (A Shropshire Lad), Arthur Somervell (Ivor Foster),
Violin Soli: 'Aria on the G String', Bach (Melsa),
'Zephir', (Melsa),
'Bless My Brooms, Shepherd Love', Harold Craxton (Carrie Tubb),
'The Doe-skin Blanket', C Wakefield Cadman (Arthur Jordan),
Cycle of Songs: 'Songs of Desert Blue', Kennedy Russell (Topliss Green),
'The Ships of Arcady', Michael Head (Astra Desmond),
New Song: 'A Little Prayer For Me', Kennedy Russell (Herbert Cave),
New Song: 'A Fairy Fantasy', Arthur Godfrey (Flora Woodman),
New Song: 'Devonshire Cream and Cider', Wilfred Sanderson (Ivor Foster),
Violin Solo: 'Caprice Viennois', Kreisler (Melsa),
'Theme and Variations', Paganini (Melsa),
'Autumn', C Alison-Crompton (Carrie Tubb),
'Time and I', C Wakefield Cadman (Carrie Tubb),
'Into The Dawn To Be', T.Wilkinson Stephenson (Phyllis Lett),
'Song of Love and Friendship', Peter Upcher (Phyllis Lett),
New Songs: 'At Grafton, The Feckenham Men', Rutland Boughton (Arthur Jordan),
New Song: 'Roses of Memeory', Gladys Ross (Topliss Green)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1919/53)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1919/53London Ballad Concerts - First Concert27 September 1919
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
CkoriovilidowrThe London Ballad Concerts Fifty-Fourth Season (1919-1920)11
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/309Woodman; Flora (fl 1914-1930); Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/189Tubb; Carrie (17 May 1876-20 September 1976); English soprano singer
DS/UK/1575Foster; Megan (fl 1917-1920s); English soprano singer
DS/UK/304Lett; Phyllis (fl 1909-1925); English contralto singer
DS/UK/1568Desmond; Astra (1893-1973); British contralto singer
DS/UK/1569Jordan; Arthur (fl 1916-1957); English singer
DS/UK/1554Foster; Ivor (1 March 1870-29 March 1959); Welsh singer baritone
DS/UK/1579Mason; Berkeley (fl 1917-1930); English organist
DS/UK/191Melsa; Daniel (fl 1913-1922); Russian-Jewish violinist
DS/UK/1571The Gresham Singers (fl 1917-1937)
DS/UK/1555Cave; Herbert (fl 1890-1930); English tenor
DS/UK/202Topliss; Green (fl 1915-1931); English bass-baritone singer
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