Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Sixty-Eighth Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date21 July 1962
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersPatricia Carroll,
Ernest Lush - pianos
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
Sir William Walton
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem) (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', Britten (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Piano Concerto in A Minor', Grieg (Patricia Carroll, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Symphony No.2 in B Minor', Borodin (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
Ballet Suite - 'The Quest', Walton (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
Scherzo - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Mendelssohn (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
Suite - 'Petrushka', Stravinsky (Ernest Lush, BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesProms premiere of 'The Quest', Walton.
The event was filmed by BBC Television.

The Proms held a cardboard effigy of Sir Malcolm Sargent, parasols and decorated the arena with balloons and streamers.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1962/77),
Programme (RAHE/1/1962/78)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1962/77Henry Wood Promenade Concerts21 July-15 September 1962
RAHE/1/1962/78BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms21 July 1962
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oozaloimon_MohBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1962 - Sixty-Eighth Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/12863Carroll; Patricia (1932-2017); British pianist
DS/UK/6597Lush; Ernest (1908-1988); English classical pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/1075Walton; Sir; William Turner (1902-1983); OM; English composer
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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