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Performance TitleLondon Schools' Coronation Festival of Music and Dance to Celebrate The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Performance Date24 June 1953
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersMr A.C.Caiger,
Martindale Sidwell - organ,
Miss I.R.Mutch - piano
Orchestra or BandFolk Dance Band,
Trumpeters of The Life Guards
ConductorsDr.Leslie Russell
Set ListFanfare of Trumpets', Callaghan (Life Guards),
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem),
Song - 'Now is The Month of Maying', Morley,
Dance - Circassian Circle

Episode I - Tudor:
Narration,
Dance - Circassian Circle by Elizabethans,
'Fanfare of Trumpets', B.Clarke (Life Guards),
Entry of Queen Elizabeth,
Presentation of Copyright to Tallis and Byrd,
Songs - 'Fine Knacks for Ladies', Dowland, 'Sing We and Chaunt It', Morley, 'Jon Come Kisse Me Now', Anon,
Dances - 'Pavane-Earl of Salisbury', W.Byrd, 'La Volta', W.Byrd, arr. Pound, 'Basse Dance', 16th Century, arr. Warlock

Episode II - Stuart:
Narration,
Song - 'Fairest Isle', Purcell,
'March of General Monk', trad.,
Entry of Charles II,
'Masque', Purcell,
Songs - 'The Passing of The Moon', Purcell,
Come Unto These Yellow Sands', Purcell

Episode III - Hanoverian:
Narration,
Last Movement from 'Water Music', Handel,
Entry of George I,
'Reconciliation With Handel',
Dance - Newcastle,
Songs - 'Care Flies from The Lad That Is Merry', Arne,
'The Ploughboy', Shield,
'Beauty Lately', Handel,
Dance - 'Minuet', 18th Century Anon,
Song - 'Let The Bright Seraphim', Handel

Episode IV - Contemporary:
Narration,
Songs - 'An Acre of Land', Vaughan Williams, 'John Barleycorn', Vaughan Williams, 'As Torrents in Summer', Elgar, 'The Echoing Green', Le Fleming, 'Girls And Boys,Come Out To Play', Le Fleming,
Dambes - Ribbon Dance, Cumberland Square Eight, Goddesses, Portland Fancy,
Finale - 'Our Homage To The Queen', Fanfare of Trumpets (Life Guards),
Epilogue - 'A Coronation Song, 1953' (A Garland for The Queen), Blunden - Finzi,
'Rule Britannia', Arne, arr. Sargent
Royal PresenceHRH The Duchess of Gloucester
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1953/81)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/wy5w2LAwPNeMS
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1953/81London Schools' Coronation Festival of Music and Dance - 195323-24 June 1953
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ylapaduv_BeapLondon Schools' Coronation Festival of Music and Dance to Celebrate The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/8819Sidwell; Martindale (1916-1998); English organist, composer, teacher
DS/UK/6512Caiger; Arthur (1890-1964); English conductor, teacher
DS/UK/3467HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, (née Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott) (1901-2004); CI GCStJ GCB GBE GCVO; British royal family member
DS/UK/1885British Army; HM Band of the Life Guards; 1795-; British Army Band
DS/UK/6701Russell; Leslie (fl 1940s-1960s); British conductor
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