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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1968 - Seventy-Fourth Season - Prom 33
Performance Date24 August 1968
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersEvelyn Lear,
Ronald Dowd,
Edward Byles,
James Christiansen,
Frank Olegario -vocals,
Hugh Bean,
Frances Mason - violins
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsColin Davis
Set List'Scherzo A La Russe', Stravinsky (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'The Seven Deadly Sins', Weill (Evelyn Lear, Ronald Dowd, Edward Byles, James Christiansen, Frank Olegario, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Concerto in D Minor, for Two Violins', Bach (Hugh Bean, Frances Mason, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Folk-Song Arrangements' - 'Come You Not From Newcastle?', 'O Waly, Waly', Oliver Cromwell', Britten (Evelyn Lear, BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Scherzo' from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn (BBC Symphony Orchestra),
'Symphony No.9 in E Minor' (New World), Dvorak (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Performance NotesEdward Byles replaced Gregory Dempsey and Frank Olegario replaced Clifford Grant.
Proms premieres of 'The Seven Deadly Sins', Weill and 'Folk-Song Arrangements', Britten.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1968/94),
Programme (RAHE/1/1968/129)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1968/129BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1968 - Prom 3324 August 1968
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oipaneroor_RevBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1968 - Seventy-Fourth Season52
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6100Davis; Sir; Colin (1927-2013); CH CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/11760Lear; Evelyn (1926-2012); American soprano
DS/UK/10416Dowd; Ronald (1914-1990); Australian tenor
DS/UK/16722Christiansen; James (fl 1950s-1990s); Australian conductor, baritone
DS/UK/14142Olegario; Frank (fl 1950s-1980s); British actor, bass singer
DS/UK/12390Bean; Hugh (1929-2003); English violinist
DS/UK/15637Mason; Frances (fl 1960s-); British violinist
DS/UK/17577Byles; Edward (fl 1960s); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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