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Performance TitleDick Sheppard Memorial Meeting
Performance Date4 December 1937
Performance DaySaturday
Main PerformersRt. Hon. George Lansbury,
Max Plowman,
Lord Ponsonby,
Canon Stuart Morris,
Dr Donald Soper,
Harold Williams - speakers
Secondary PerformersArnold Greir - organ
ConductorsIris Lemare
Set List'Minuet' from 'Berenice', Handel (Arnold Greir),
'Minuet' from Saul, Handel (Arnold Greir),
Community Singing: 'These Things Shall Be!',
'Turn Back, O Man', Holst (Arnold Greir, Choir),
'The Arrow and The Song', Balfe (Harold Williams),
'There is No Death', O'Hara (Harold Williams),
'Worship', Geoffrey Shaw (Arnold Greir, Choir),
'O Tod', Brahms (Harold Williams),
'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring', Bach (Arnold Greir, Choir),
'Never Weather-Beaten Sail', Parry (Arnold Greir, Choir),
Community Singing: 'Jerusalem', Parry
Performance Notes"Mr Lansbury said there were those who thought of Canon Sheppard as a Dreamer, but he was a realist, one whose mind was always in the struggle and who was always trying to see a away out. Canon Sheppard was certain that if only the Churches and those who said they believed in the message of the Prince of Peace would believe that message and strive to live up to it in every part of the world, we should be living at peace with one another now."
(The Times, 6 December 1937)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1937/73)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1937/73The Peace Pledge Union - Dick Sheppard Memorial Meeting4 December 1937
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
UkokoofoilifimDick Sheppard Memorial Meeting1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/163Lansbury; George (1859-1940); British Labour politician
DS/UK/3415Posonby; Arthur Augustus William Harry (1871-1946); 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede; British politician, writer, social activist
DS/UK/1221Williams; Harold John (1893-1976); MBE; Australian baritone
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
DS/UK/1478Sheppard; Dick (2 September 1880- 31 October 1937); CH; English Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury and Christian pacifist
DS/UK/1432The Peace Pledge Union (PPU); 1934-; British pacifist organisation
DS/UK/3501Soper; Donald Oliver (1903-1998); Baron Soper; English Methodist minister, socialist, pacifist
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