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Performance TitleKiri Te Kanawa Fiftieth Birthday Concert, in aid of The Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre
Performance Date10 March 1994
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersKiri Te Kanawa - vocal
Secondary PerformersDennis O'Neill
Orchestra or BandLondon Symphony Orchestra,
Waihirere Maori Group,
Capital Brass
ChoirsLondon Symphony Chorus
ConductorsStephen Barlow
Andre Previn
Set List'The Sea Hawk', Korngold (London Symphony Orchestra),
'Depuis le Jour' from Louise, Charpentier (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Marietta's Lied' (Die tote Stadt), Korngold (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Grand March' from Aida, Verdi (London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Porgi Amor' from Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Befreit, Op. 39, No. 4', R Strauss (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Sanctus' from The Requiem, Verdi (London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Che Gelida Manina' from La Boheme, Puccini (Dennis O'Neill, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Mi Chiamano Mimi' from La Boheme, Puccini (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'O Soave Fanciulla' from La Boheme, Puccini (Kiri Te Kanawa, Dennis O'Neill, London Symphony Orchestra)
INTERVAL
'You'll Never Walk Alone' from Carousel, Rodgers (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Oh, I Can't Sit Down' from Porgy and Bess, Gershwin (London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra),
'It Never Was You' from Knickerbocker Holiday, Weill (Kiri Te Kanawa, Dennis O'Neill, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Why Don't You Do Right?', Joe McCoy (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Huia Mai', trad. Maori poi song (Kiri Te Kanawa),
'Paikea', trad. Maori action song (Kiri Te Kanawa),
'Maui', trad. Maori haka (Kiri Te Kanawa),
'Hine e Hine', Princess Te Rangi Pai (Kiri Te Kanawa),
'Tahi Nei Taru Kino', trad. Maori action song, arr. P Tomoana (Kiri Te Kanawa),
'Climb Every Mountain' from The Sound of Music, Rodgers (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'With One Look' from Sunset Boulevard, Lloyd Webber (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra),
'Salaambo' from Citizen Kane, Herrmann (Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra)
Royal PresenceHRH Prince Charles The Prince of Wales
Performance NotesCliff Richard and Melvyn Bragg attended the after-show party.

Miss Belinda Harley was in attendance.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1994/8),
Poster (RAHE/2/1994/)
Photographs (RAHE/3/1994/3)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1994/8Kiri Te Kanawa Fiftieth Birthday Concert, in aid of The Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre'10 March 1994
RAHE/3/1994/3Photographs of Kiri Te Kanawa Fiftieth Birthday Concert, in aid of The Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre10 March 1994
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oimabovob_ZoisKiri Te Kanawa Fiftieth Birthday Concert, in aid of The Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/5341Kanawa; Dame; Kiri Te (6 March 1944); ONZ CH DBE AC; New Zealand-born Maori soprano singer
DS/UK/1021London Symphony Chorus (LSC); London Symphony Orchestra; 1966-; English orchestra
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/10523Previn; Andre (6 April 1929-28 February 2019); KBE; German-born American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor
DS/UK/19386Barlow; Stephen (30 June 1954); English conductor
DS/UK/15417Nordoff Robbins; 1958-; British music therapy charity
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