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Performance TitleRoyal Choral Society (Fifty-Second Season 1922-1923) - Carols and other Christmas Music
Performance Date16 December 1922
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersFlora Woodman,
Dorothy Clark,
Ben Davies,
Peter Dawson - vocals,
Constance Izard - violin
Secondary PerformersR Arnold Greir - organ,
Gwendolen Mason - harp,
Herbert Barr - trumpet,
Berkeley Mason
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsH L Balfour
Set ListChristmas Motet for Double Chorus: 'Now Once Again Our Hearts We Raise', sounded on an Ancient Chorale,
'Carol: 'In Dulci Jubilo', Bach (Peter Dawson, Constance Izard),
Christmas Song: 'Gesu Bmbino', Pietro A Yon (Peter Dawson, C I),
A Christmas Fantasy: 'The Star of the East', Sir Frederick Bridge (Dorothy Clark, Gwendolen Mason),
Air: 'Let The Bright Seraphim' from Samson, Handel (Flora Woodman, Herbert Barr),
Carol: 'Ring, Christmas Bells', Sir Frederick Bridge (Ben Davies),
'The Monkey's Carol', Stanford (Ben Davies),
'The Winds of Bethlehem', Stanford,
'The Coventry Carol', trad. (Dorothy Clark),
Recit. and Aria: 'Ombra Mai Fu', Handel (Dorothy Clark, Constance Izard, Gwendolen Mason),
Ancient Carol: 'Welcome, Yule', arr. Parry,
Organ Solo: 'Wachet, Auf', Bach (Arnold Grier),
Carol: 'Unto Us Is Born A Son', trad. from 'Piae Cantiones',
'The Oxen', Graham Peel (Peter Dawson),
'Jerusalem' (with Chorus), Parry,
Melody of 'Omnis Mundus Incundetur',
Carol: 'Earthly Friends Will Change and Falter',
Carol: 'Hail! Babe, of God the Very Son' from the 'Kolnisches Gesangbuch', arr. Woodward,
'Song of the Chimes', Lola Carrier Worrell (Flora Woodman),
'A Legend', Tschaikowsky (Flora Woodman),
'Vesper Hymn', Flora Woodman (Flora Woodman),
Twelfth-Night Song: 'Come, Let Us Be Merry', R L de Pearsall (Ben Davies),
Carol: 'The Wasail Song', trad. (Ben Davies),
'A Carol for the New Year', trad., to the tune of 'Green Sleeves' (Ben Davies),
Carol: 'The Holly and the Ivy', trad.,
Carol: 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen', trad.,
'Lullaby', Frederick Keel (Dorothy Clark, Gwendolen Mason),
'A Christmas Carol', Malcolm Davidson (Dorothy Clark, Gwendolen Mason),
Carol:'Good King Wenceslas', trad. Spring Carol of the XIIIth Century (Flora Woodman, Peter Dawson),
Carol: 'The First Nowell', trad.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1922/55) with Handbill attached
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1922/55Royal Choral Society (Fifty-Second Season) - Carols16 December 1922
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IoxasaivoitihozRoyal Choral Society (Fifty-Second Season 1922-1923)8
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/309Woodman; Flora (fl 1914-1930); Scottish soprano singer
DS/UK/2044Clark; Dorothy (fl 1921-1924); British singer
DS/UK/1616Davies; Ben (1858-1943); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/1705Dawson; Peter (1882-1961); Australian bass-baritone, songwriter
DS/UK/2374Izard; Constance (fl 1916-1922); British violinist
DS/UK/1614Balfour; H L (28 October 1859-27 December 1946); British organist and teacher
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