| Main Performers | Madame D'Alvarez - vocal,
Allan Brown - organ,
M Verney - clarinet,
M Montenat - cor anglais,
M Mercier - oboe,
M Foveau - bugle,
M Lacroix - trombone,
M Beghin - cornet |
| Secondary Performers | Mr F B Kiddle - piano accompanist |
| Orchestra or Band | Band of the Garde Republicaine (70 members) |
| Conductors | M le Capitaine Guillaume Balay |
| Set List | Pre Concert Organ Recital of French Music:
'Suite Gothique', Boellman (Allan Brown),
'In Paradisum', Dubois (Allan Brown),
'Final' from Symphonie in D Minor, Guilmant (Allan Brown)
Royal Entrance:
National Anthem: 'God Save The King' (Band of the Garde Republicaine),
'Le Roi d'Ys' Overture, Lalo (Band of the Garde Republicaine, Verney, Montenat),
'Symphonie Inachevee', Schubert (Band of the Garde Republicain, Verney, Mercier),
'God Shall Wipe Away All Tears', Sullivan (D'Alvarez),
'Air de Lia', Debussy (D'Alvarez),
'Roma' Suite D'Orchestre, Bizet (Band of the Garde Republicaine),
'La Plainte du Clocher', Balay (Band of the Garde Republicaine),
'Cette Meprisable Petite Armee' (Band of the Garde Republicaine),
'Agnus Dei', Bizet (D'Alvarez),
Selection: 'Manon', Massenet (Band of the Garde Republicaine, Verney, Foveau, Lacroix, Beghin),
'Gran Jota de la Dolores', Breton (Band of the Garde Republicaine, Beghin, Foveau),
'La Marseillaise', Rouget de l'Isle (D'Alvarez, Band of the Garde Republicaine)
'God Save The King' (The National Anthem) |
| Royal Presence | HM King George V,
HM Queen Mary,
HRH Prince Henry,
HRH Princess Beatrice,
HRH Princess Marie of Greece,
HRH The Grand Duke Michael of Russia,
HRH Princess Barlatinsky |
| Performance Notes | This concert was in aid of the funds for the Inter-Allied War Memorial, outside Amiens in France.
Prior to the concert the band of the Gards Republicaine were was welcomed on Saturday evening at Victora Station in London on their arrival from Paris. As the train came to a standstill the band of the Welsh Guards struck up 'The Marseillaise' and were formally welcomed by Viscount Burnham as Chairman of the British Committee of the Somme Battlefields Memorial. The band marched from Victoria to the Palace Hotel in Bloomsbury via Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly, Oxford Street and were cheered by members of the public. (The Daily Telegraph, 9 July 1923)
The event was attended by the French Ambassador, the Comtesse de Saint-Auliare, Countess Oetiongham, Aga Khan, The Duke and Duchess of Portland, The Duchess of Somerset (Chairman of the Ladies' Committee of the concert), Field Marshall Earl Haig, The Earl of Derby, Viscount Burnham (Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Memorial), M and Mme. Klotz, M Coudurier de Chassigne (delegates of the French Memorial Committee), Lady Strathern, Mrs Vanderbergh, Lady Terrington, the Hon Mrs Arthur Crichton, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Viscountess of Burnham, The Countess of Yarborough, Lady Lister Kaye, General Sir William Pulteney, Lady Pulteney, Sir Edward Packe, the Hon. Lady Packe, Colonel Fagalde, Mme. Fagalde, The Duchess of Rutland, Lady Ermyntrude Malet, Lady Gibbon, rs Van den Bergh, the Vicomtesse de la Panouse, Florence Lady Garvagh, Mrs Robert Fleming.
Progamme sellers included the daughters of the French Ambassador, the hon. Olwen Philipps, Lady Rachel Howard, the hon. Anna Laurence, Lady Betty Hay, an dthe Hon. Irene Hastings. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1923/34),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1923/19) |