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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1956 - Sixty-Second Season - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms
Performance Date15 September 1956
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersConstance Shacklock - vocal,
Eileen Joyce - piano,
Charles Spinks - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Malcolm Sargent,
Basil Cameron
Set List'Overture' from Tannhauser, Wagner,
'Le Rouet D'Omphale', Saint-Saens,
'Symphonic Variations', Franck (Joyce),
'Symphony No.7 in C', Sibelius,
March - 'Pomp and Circumstnace No.1 in D', Elgar,
'Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell', Britten,
'Sea Songs', arr. H Wood,
'Rule Britannia', Arne (Shacklock),
'Jerusalem', Parry,
'God Save the Queen', (National Anthem)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed by BBC Television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1956/90),
Programme (RAHE/1/1956/143)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/bs7baOebavvHFW
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1956/143BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1956 - Prom 49 - Last Night of the Proms15 September 1956
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Cposasit_SehBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1956 - Sixty-Second Season49
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/67Sargent; Sir; Malcolm (29 April 1895-3 October 1967); English conductor and organist
DS/UK/1442Cameron; Basil (18 August 1884-26 June 1975); CBE; English conductor
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/8828Spinks; Charles (1915-1992); British harpsichordist, organist, composer, arranger
DS/UK/1519Joyce; Eileen (1 January 1908-25 March 1991); CMG; Australian pianist
DS/UK/1560Shacklock; Constance (1913-1999); OBE; English contralto
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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