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Performance TitleRoyal Choral Society (Forty-Seventh Season 1917-1918) - Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio' and Carols
Performance Date22 December 1917
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersOlga Haley,
Gladys Moger,
Gertrude Higgs,
David Ellis,
Robert Radford - vocals,
H L Balfour - organ
Secondary PerformersR A Greir - pianoforte,
Miriam Timothy - harp,
Anne Godfrey - violin,
F G James - trumpet
Orchestra or BandFull Orchestra
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsSir Frederick Bridge,
Herbert Sharpe
Set List'The Christmas Oratorio' (selection), Bach (Gertrude Higgs, Robert Radford),
Motet for Double Chorus: 'Now Once Again Our Hearts We Raise', founded on an Ancient Choral,
Carol for Quartet and Chorus: 'In Dulci Jubilo', XVIth Century Melody, harm. R L De Pearsall (Gladys Moger, Gertrude Higgs, David Ellis, Robert Radford)
Cantata Pastorale: 'Per La Nascita di Nostro Signore', Scarlatti (Gladys Moger, A E Godfrey),
'I Sing the Birth', Parry,
'A Christmas Song', Sir Frederick Bridge (David Ellis),
'Ring Out! With Jocund Chime', Sir Frederick Bridge,
Aria: 'Angus Dei', Bizet (Olga Haley, Anne Godfrey, Miriam Timothy, H L Balfour),
'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen', trad.,
'And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time', (Jerusalem) Parry (Robert Radford),
'When Christ Was Born', Parry,
'When The Crimson Sun Had Set', trad., arr. S S Greatheed (Gladys Moger, Gertrude Higgs, David Ellis, Robert Radford)
INTERVAL
Organ Solo: 'Fantasy On Two Well' known Christmas Carols, John E West (H L Balfour),
'A Babe Ys Borne I Wys', Sir Frederick Bridge,
'Three Kings Once Lived', Cowen (Gertrude Higgs),
Ancient Carol: 'Welcome Yule', Parry,
'The Mahogany Tree', Herbert Sharpe (Robert Radford, Herbert Sharpe),,
'Christmas Bells', Sir Frederick Bridge,
'A Carol of Bells', Stanford (Olga Haley),
'Good King Wenceslas', Spring Carol of XIIIth Century (Gladys Moger, Robert Radford),
'Winter', Landon Ronald (Gladys Moger),
'Robin Redbreat', Montague Phillips (Gladys Moger),
'Jesus To Us, To God A Son', from the Aberdeen Cantus, 2662, arr. Sir Frederick Bridge,
'The First Nowell', trad.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1917/49)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1917/49Royal Choral Society (Forty-Seventh Season) - Carols22 December 1917
RAHE/1/1917/50Royal Choral Society (Forty-Seventh Season) Prospectus27 October 1917-20 April 1918
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ulonaih_Git_KRoyal Choral Society (Forty-Seventh Season 1917-1918)8
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
DS/UK/1613Bridge; Sir; Frederick (5 December 1844-18 March 1924); CVO; English organist, composer, teacher, writer
DS/UK/190Haley; Olga (1898-); English mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/5748Moger; Gladys (fl 1917-1921); British singer
DS/UK/5749Higgs; Gertrude (fl 1917); British singer
DS/UK/2371Ellis; David (fl 1912-1926); British singer
DS/UK/214Radford; Robert (1874-1933); British bass opera singer
DS/UK/5738Sharpe; Herbert Francis (1861-1925); British pianist, composer, music professor
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