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Performance TitleNational Brass Band Championship of Great Britain Grand Festival Concert
Performance Date27 October 1951
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersFrank Phillips,
Ian Gladstone,
Brian Mather - vocal
Orchestra or BandFodens Motor Works Band,
Brighouse and Rastrick Band,
Crookhall Colliery Band,
Fairey Aviation Works Band,
Morris Motors Band,
Park and Dare Workmen's Band,
Parkhead Forge Silver Band,
Ransome and Marles Works Band,
St. Dennis Silver Band,
Trumpeters of the Life Guards
ChoirsMorriston Orpheus Male Choir
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
Harry Mortimer,
Ivor E Sims
Set ListOverture - 'Ruy Blas', Mendelssohn,
Suite - 'The Water Music', Handel-Harty arr. Holt,
'Overture' from Iolanthe, Sullivan arr. Sargent,
'Solemn Melody', Walford Davies,
'Soldier's Chorus', from Faust, Gounod,
Suite - 'Carmen', Bizet,
Grand March - 'Whitehall', Frank Wright,
'When Evening's Twilight Gathers Round', Hatton,
'Linden Lea', Vaughan Williams,
'Domine, Non Sum Dignus', Vittoria,
'The Blue Danube', Johann Strauss,
Selection - 'Lilac Time', Schubert-Clutsam,
'Matona, My Beloved', Orlando di Lasso,
'Requescat', Mansel Thomas,
'Myfanwy', Dr Joseph Parry,
Duet - 'Panorama', J A Greenwood,
'In This Hour of Softened Splendour', Pinsuti, arr. Eric Ball,
'March, Pomp and Circumstance', Elgar
Performance NotesThe following two years of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain (1952-1953) were held in Manchester at the Belle Vue.

The event was attended by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1951/216)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1951/216Daily Herald National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain Festival Contest 27 October 1951
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OtorowrosizowvNational Brass Band Championship of Great Britain2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7098Morriston Orpheus Choir; 1935-; Welsh choir
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/6335Mortimer; Harry (1902-1992); OBE; British composer, conductor, brass band specialist
DS/UK/7099Sims; Ivor E (fl 1930s-1950s); British conductor
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