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Performance TitleRoyal Choral Society (Fifty-Third Season 1923-1924) - Carols
Performance Date22 December 1923
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersDora Labbette,
Carmen Hill,
Archibald Winter,
Herbert Heyner - vocals
Secondary PerformersBerkeley Mason - piano,
R Arnold Greir - organ,
F H Wheelhouse - bells
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsH L Balfour
Set ListHymn for Christmas Day: 'O Come, All Ye Faithful', John Reading,
Christmas Motet for Double Chorus, ''Now once again our hearts we raise,'
Carol: 'In Dulci Jubilo',
'The Winds of Bethlehem', Stanford (Archibald Winter),
Carol: 'Unto Us Is Born A Son',
Carol for Solo and Chorus: 'Lullay My Liking', Gustav Holst (Dora Labbette),
'Fantasia on Christmas Carols', Vaughan Williams, Herbert Heyner
'An Old Sacred Lullaby', Corner, arr. S Liddle (Carmen Hill),
Carol: 'Christ Was Born On Christmas Day',
'What Child Is This?',
'A Christmas Carol', Arnold Bax (Dora Labbette),
Carol: 'The Coventry Carol',
'An Old French Carol', arr. S Liddle (Herbert Heyner),
Carols: 'Welcome, Yule', Parry,
'Hail! Babe, of God The Very Son',
'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen',
'A Christmas Carol', Malcolm Davidson,(Archibald Winter),
'New Year's Wassailing Song', Mallinson (Archibald Winter),
Part-Song: 'Legend' (Christ In His Garden), Tchaikovsky,
'Sweet Was The Song the Virgin Sang', arr. F Keel (Dora Labbette),
'Voici Noel', Weckerlin, Dora Labbette,
Carol: 'The Wassail Song',
'As I Came Over The Grey, Grey Hills' (Arnold Bax, Carmen Hill),
Carol, with Chorus: 'Noel', Maurice Besly (Carmen Hill),
Carol: 'Ring Out! With Jocund Chime', Bridge,
'The Birds of Bethlehem', Walford Davies (Herbert Heyner),
'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind', Roger Quilter (Herbert Heyner),
Carol: 'The Holly and the Ivy',
Carol: 'Good King Wenceslas' (Dora Labbette, Herbert Heyner),
'The First Noel'
Related Archival MaterialProgramme and Book of Words (RAHE/1/1923/57),
Season Prospectus (RAHE/1/1923/58)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1923/58Royal Choral Society (Fifty-Third Season) - Season Prospectus20 October 1923-18 April 1924
RAHE/1/1923/57Royal Choral Society (Fifty-Third Season) - Carols22 December 1923
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OnameavogihigRoyal Choral Society (Fifty-Third Season 1923-1924)9
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1580Labbette; Dora (1898-1984); English soprano
DS/UK/1583Hill; Carmen (fl 1883-1924); Scottish singer
DS/UK/2315Winter; Archibald (fl 1922-1926); British singer
DS/UK/1657Heyner; Herbert (fl 1909-1937); Captain; English singer
DS/UK/1614Balfour; H L (28 October 1859-27 December 1946); British organist and teacher
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
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