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Performance TitleDr Barnardo's Homes - Twenty-Eighth Anniversary Meeting
Performance Date23 June 1894
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersDr Barnardo,
Lord Brassey KCB,
The Hon Lady Brassey,
Rev. Canon Fleming,
Dr G F Pentecost - speakers,
Madame Antoinette Sterling - vocal
Secondary PerformersBoys' Brigade
ChoirsChildren's Choir (1,200 voices)
ConductorsMr J Frank Proudman
Set ListSinging by 1,000 Trained Children,
'If Any Will Not Work, Neither Shall He Eat',
Baby Lives and Baby' Loves in Babyland,
Rescued from the slums of Darkest England,
Trained and Ready for Travel!
Life and Work at the Girls' Village Home,
Bell the Cat: A Novel Game of blind man's buff,
Battalion Drill Manual, Firing and Bayonet Exercises by our own Boys' Brigade,
Flag Drill by our own Little Women,
Cricket Extraordinary!
A Procession of Trade Guilds,
Navall Cutlass Drill,
Musical Movements and Gymnastics by Small Boys,
The Collection,
Presidential Address (Lord Brassey),
Director's Report (Dr Barnardo),
Resolution for 'the grateful sense of those assembled for the Divine blessing continuously extended and couchsafed throughout the history of the insitutions' (Rev. Canon Fleming, Dr Pentecost),
'We Are All God's Childrem', Madame Antoinette Sterling,
Presentation of prizes to 300 Old Girls and Old Boys (The Hon Lady Brassey),
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesGuests at the event included Hon. Miss Guest, Lady Wimbourne, Lady Carden, Lord Rowton, Rev. Prehendary Baker, Canon Girdlestone, Rev. J H Scott, Mr James Rankin MP, Mr Samuel Smith MP, and Captain and Mrs Kirkpatrick.
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work8975Dr Barnardo's Homes - Twenty-Eighth Anniversary Meeting1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3826Barnardo; Dr; Thomas John (4 July 1845-19 September 1905); Irish philanthropis and, founder of Dr Barnardo homes
DS/UK/5387Sterling; Antoinette (1850-1904); American contralto-soprano
DS/UK/22410Proudman; Joseph Francis (1866-1945); FCO, FRCO; English organist, conductor
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