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Performance TitleSalvation Army Meeting
Performance Date2 October 1905
Performance DayMonday
Main PerformersGeneral Bramwell Booth - speaker
ConductorsWilliam Booth
Performance NotesSalvation Army Commemoration Service as a memorial service for their officers in Heaven.
George Bernard Shaw also attended this performance. He stated later in a Lonndon newspaper:-
"Massed Salvation Army Bands played the 'Dead March' from Saul, as I verily believe it has never been played in the world since Handel was alive to conduct it."
Related Archival MaterialThe Sphere illustration (7 October 1905) (RAHE/9/1905/4)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/WFZWMZOWdCUUX
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/9/1905/3Illustration of the Salvation Army Meeting2 October 1905
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work8613Salvation Army Meeting1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1380Booth; William (10 April 1829-20 August 1912); British Methodist preacher and founder and first General of the Salvation Army
DS/UK/420Booth; William Bramwell (8 March 1856-16 June 1929); CH; British Second General of the Salvation Army
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