| Main Performers | Mrs Arthur Chorley - vocal,
Thomas Armstrong - organ |
| Orchestra or Band | Trumpeters of the Royal Horse Guards,
1st Latimer Girl Guides Company,
Girls' Club, St Clements, North Kensington |
| Conductors | Rosabel Watson,
Stanley Stubbs |
| Set List | Pageant of Motherhood (dir. Henry Millar)
Presidential Address (Mrs Hubert Barclay)
Organ Soli: 'Toccata and Fugue', Bach (Thomas Armstrong),
'Overture to the ''Occasional Oratorio'', Handel (Thomas Armstrong),
'March from ''The Birds'', Parry (Thomas Armstrong),
'The Gift' (A Pageant of the Mothers' Union)
Overture: 'Plymouth Hoe', Ansell (The Orchestra),
Unison Song: 'I Vow To Thee, My Country', Holst (The Choir),
Hymn: 'Ye Watchers And Ye Holy Ones',
Song: 'Home, Sweet Home', Bishop (Mrs Arthur Chorley),
Choral Ode: 'O England, My Country', Holst
Unison Song: 'Worship', Geoffrey Shaw |
| Performance Notes | The Mothers' Union was granted a Royal Charter in it's Jubilee year prior to their Mass Meeting and Pageant at the Royal Albert Hall.
A film was shown during the performances.
"The platform of the great hall was tranformed into 'The Temple of the Spirit of Motherhood,' on the steps of which a mother, worn out with work and sorrow, rested with her two children. She fell asleep, and in her dreams was visited by the Spirit of Motherhood, who explained to her the gift of motherhood, and called from the past examples of great mothers, the memory of whom still lives. Demeter and Persephone, Hannah and Samuel, Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, St Margaret (Queen of Scotland), Margaret Beaufort, and Madame de Sevigne, all passed before her. At the conclusion of the pageant a tableau was formed, and the music changed to a hymn, during the singing of which a vision of the Virgin Mary and Child appeared and faded away."
(Daily Telegraph, 25 June 1926) |