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Performance TitleDame Nellie Melba Farewell Concert
Performance Date7 November 1908
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersDame Nellie Melba,
Mr John McCormack,
Mr Frederick Ranalow - vocals,
Mr W Backhaus - piano,
Mr Szigeti - violin
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsLandon Ronald
Set ListIncluded:
'Ah! Fors e Lui' (Melba),
'Comin' Thro' the Rye' (Melba),
'Summertime', L Ronald (Melba),
'Se Saran Rose', Arditi (Melba),
'Ardon gl'incensi' from Lucia (Melba),
'Good-bye', Tosti (Melba),
'Hungarian Rhapsody', Liszt (Backhaus),
'Military March', Schubert (Backhaus),
'Violin Concerto', Tchaikovsky (Szigeti)
ENCORE
'Le Roi d'Ys', Lalo (Melba)
Royal PresenceHRH The Princess Henry of Battenburg
Performance NotesFarewell concert before the Melba embarked on an extended tour of Australia and then New York. According to the Daily Telegraph (9 November 1908) 10,000 people gathered in the Hall.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1908/28)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work8831Dame Nellie Melba Farewell Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/161Melba; Dame; Nellie (19 May 1861-23 February 1931); GBE; Australian operatic soprano
DS/UK/349McCormack; John Francis (1884-1945); Papal Count; Irish tenor
DS/UK/270Backhaus; Wilhelm (26 March 1884-5 July 1969); German pianist and pedagogue
DS/UK/308Szigeti; Joseph (1892-1973); Hungarian violinist
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/194Ronald; Sir; Landon (1873-1938); English conductor, composer, pianist, singing teacher and administrator
DS/UK/4177Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore (1857-1944); British royal family member
DS/UK/1935Ranalow; Frederick Baring (1873-1953); Irish singer
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