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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1943 - Forty-Ninth Season - Prom 35 - American Concert
Performance Date29 July 1943
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersLieutenant Burgess Meredith - speaker
Irene Kohler - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Adrian Boult,
Hugo Weisgall
Set List'American Comedy 1943', Hugo Weisgall,
'Piano Concerto in F', Gershwin, (Irene Kohler),
'A Lincoln Portrait for Orator and Orchestra', A Copland (Lieutenant Burgess Meredith),
'Symphony No.3', William Schumann,
'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Talllis for Double String Orchestra', Vaughan Williams,
'Scapino Overture', William Walton
Performance NotesPremiere of 'American Comedy 1943' by Hugo Weosgall.
English premieres of 'A Lincoln Portrait For Orator and Orchestra' by Aaron Copland, and 'Symphony No.3' by William Schumann.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1943/57),
Programme (RAHE/1/1943/93)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/wy5wyYYwyy73k
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1943/93BBC Promenade Concerts (Sir Henry Wood's Forty-Ninth Season) - Prom 35 - American Concert29 July 1943
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
_VoxosofifiopBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1943: Forty-Ninth Season55
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3012Kohler; Irene (1909-1996); English pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/358Boult; Sir; Adrian (8 April 1889-22 February 1983); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/6474Weisgall; Hugo David (1912-1997); American composer, conductor
DS/UK/6475Burgess Meredith; Oliver (1907-1997); American actor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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