Record

Performance TitleGrand Concert for the Kings Fund (For Disabled Officers and Men of the Navy, Army and Air Forces)
Performance Date8 November 1918
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersJohn Hodge MP - speaker,
Gertrude Tomalin - performer,
Harry Dearth,
Carrie Tubb,
Lady Tree,
Charles Tree,
Mackenzie Fairfax- vocals,
Marie Hall, (indisposed)
Zacharewitsch - violin
Mark Hambourg - pianoforte
H L Balfour,
Granville - organ
Secondary PerformersF A Sewell,
Harold Craxton,
Herbert Oliver,
Mabel Rutland - accompanists
Orchestra or BandSir Thomas Beecham's Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSir Thomas Beecham (replaced with Mr Frank Bridge)
Set ListOrgan: 'Fantasia on National Airs' (Granville),
'The Company Sergeant-Major', W Sanderson (Harry Dearth),
Violin Solos: 'Minuet', Beethoven (Marie Hall, Harold Craxton),
'Spanish Dance', Sarasate (Marie Hall, Harold Craxton),
'Songs of a Vivandiere', Herbert Oliver (Carrie Tubb, Herbert Oliver),
Two Soldier Monologues (Gertrude Tomalin),
Selected excerpts from Repertoire (Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham),
'Souvenir de Moscow', Wienawski (Zacharewitsch, Mabel Rutland),
Address (John Hodge),
Orchestraphone (Granville)
Recitations: 'The Battle of the American Republic', Elizabeth Beecher Ward (Lady Tree),
'When The Boys Come Home', John Haig (Lady Tree),
'The Likes O' They', Lidgery (Charles Tree),
Pianoforte Solos (Mark Hambourg),
'Homing', Teresa del Reigo (Mackenzie Fairfax, H L Balfour),
'Beyond the Dawn', Sanderson (Mackenzie Fairfax, H L Balfour)
Royal PresenceHM Queen Mary,
HRH Princess Mary
Performance NotesThe Times notes that many people were kept away by the influenza epidemic (Spanish flu), including Miss Marie Hall and Sir Thomas Beecham.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1918/46),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1918/25)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/83q83JR83XKY3
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/1918/25Grand Concert in aid of The King's Fund8 November 1918
RAHE/1/1918/46Grand Concert in aid of The King's Fund8 November 1918
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
_Ponysepit_DGrand Concert for the Kings Fund for Disabled Officers and Men of the Army, Navy and Air Forces1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3843Sewell; F A (fl 1890s-1910s); British organist
DS/UK/5824Tomalin; Gertrude (c.1882-23 January 1940); British actress and elocutionist
DS/UK/5826Collins; Jose (1887-1958); English actress, singer
DS/UK/1607Dearth; Harry (October 1876-18 April 1933); British bass singer and actor
DS/UK/189Tubb; Carrie (17 May 1876-20 September 1976); English soprano singer
DS/UK/2071Tree; Charles (fl 1914-1921); English singer
DS/UK/5821Fairfax; Mackenzie (fl 1918); Singer
DS/UK/2062Hall; Marie Pauline (1884-1956); English violinist
DS/UK/2014Zacharewitsch; Michael (26 August 1878-20 December 1953); Russian-British violinist
DS/UK/169Hambourg; Mark (1 June 1879-26 August 1960); Russian-born British concert pianist
DS/UK/346Beecham; Sir; Thomas (29 April 1879-8 March 1961); 2nd Barronet of Ewanville, CH; English conductor and impresario
DS/UK/1116Mary of Teck (1867-1953); British Queen consort of King-Emperor George V
DS/UK/4718Craxton; Thomas Harold Hunt 'Harold' (1885-1971); English pianist, composer
DS/UK/4407The Beecham Symphony Orchestra; 1909-1910s; British orchestra
DS/UK/6042Hodge; John (1855-1937); British Coalition Labour party politician
DS/UK/5816Tree; Lady (1863-1937); English actress, wife of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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