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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1945 - Fifty-First Season - Prom 36
Performance Date30 August 1945
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersAstra Desmond,
Roy Henderson - vocals,
Jean Pougnet - violin
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsGoldsmiths' Choral Union
ConductorsSir Adrian Boult
Set List'Overture' from The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart,
'A Swan', Grieg (Astra Desmond),
'A Dream', Grieg (Astra Desmond),
'Violin Concerto in E Minor', Mendelssohn (Jean Pougnet),
'Sea-Drift', Delius (Roy Henderson, Goldsmiths' Choral Union),
'Five Tudor Portraits', Vaughan Williams (Astra Desmond, Roy Henderson, Goldsmiths' Choral Union)
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1945/104),
Programme (RAHE/1/1945/139)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/6v36Xe36dAQzr
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1945/139BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 51st Season - Concert Thirty Five30 August 1945
RAHE/1/1945/104BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 51st Season21 July-15 September 1945
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
CkosetierifiepBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1945: Fifty First Season50
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1532Goldsmiths; Goldsmiths Choral Union (GCU); 1932-; English amateur choir
DS/UK/1568Desmond; Astra (1893-1973); British contralto singer
DS/UK/1344Henderson; Roy Galbraith (4 July 1899-16 March 2000); CBE; English singer baritone
DS/UK/2674Pougnet; Jean (1907-1968); Mauritian concert violinist, orchestra leader
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/358Boult; Sir; Adrian (8 April 1889-22 February 1983); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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