Record

Performance TitleBritish Empire Music Festival - Second Concert
Performance Date14 November 1923
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time20:15
Main PerformersMaria Sandra,
Margaret Balfour,
Robert Radford - vocals
Secondary PerformersHarold Craxton - piano,
P Mavon-Ibbs - organ
Orchestra or BandRoyal Artillery String Band,
The Pipers of HM Scots Guards
ChoirsCentral London Choral Society
ConductorsLiuetenant E C Stretton,
David J Thomas
Set List'March Imperial', Elgar,
'Irish Rhapsody', Stanford (Royal Artillery String Band),
'The Old Minstrel's Song', Rutland Boughton (Robert Radford),
'Sea Fever', John Ireland (Robert Radford),
'Old Clothes and Fine Clothes', Martin Shaw (Robert Radford),
Choral Ballad: 'Song of the Grey Seas', Percy E Fletcher (Central London Choral Society and band),
'O Men From the Fields', Herbert Hughes (Margaret Balfour),
'Love Went a Riding', Frank Bridge (Margaret Balfour),
Suite: 'The Romance of Kashmir', Florence Parbury,
Overture: 'Tam O'Shanter', Learmont Drysdale,
'The Swallow Song', A Goring Thomas (Maria Sandra),
Part Song: 'The Miller's Wooing', Eaton Faning (Central London Choral Society and Band),
'The Vagabond', Vaughan Williams (Robert Radford),
'The Roadside Fire', Vaughan Williams (Robert Radford),
'The Sergeant's Song', Holst (Robert Radford),
March: 'Blue Bonnets Over The Border' (Pipers of H.M. Scots Guards),
Strathspe: 'Braes of Mar', (Pipers of HM Scots Guards)
Reel: 'Miss McLeod of Raasay, (Pipers of HM Scots Guards),
March: 'Barren Rock of Aden' (Pipers of HM Scots Guards),
'Rule Brittania', trad. (Band and Organ),
'God Save The King' (The National Anthem), trad. (Choir, Audience, Band, Organ)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1923/45),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1923/26)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1923/45The Second Concert of the British Empire Music Festival14 November 1923
RAHE/6/1923/26British Empire Music Festival, Second Concert14 November 1923
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
_SodygowraibebBritish Empire Music Festival - Second Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1196Sandra; Maria (fl 1923-1929); English singer
DS/UK/1106Balfour; Margaret (1892-1961); English classical contralto
DS/UK/214Radford; Robert (1874-1933); British bass opera singer
DS/UK/1868Central London Choral Society; fl 1920-1926; English choir
DS/UK/2359Thomas; David J. (fl 1922-1926); British conductor
DS/UK/2639Stretton; E. C. (fl 1907-1936); Lt.; British conductor Royal Artillery Band, 1907-1936
DS/UK/2641British Army; Pipers of H.M. Scots Guards; fl 1895-1952; British military band
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