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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1943 - Forty-Ninth Season - Prom 1 - First Night of the Proms
Performance Date19 June 1943
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersHeddle Nash - vocal,
Moura Lympany - piano
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsSir Henry Wood
Set List'God Save the King' (The National Anthem),
'London Pageant', Arnold Bax,
Scherzo, 'L'Apprenti Sorcier', Dukas,
'Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor', Saint-Saens (Moura Lympany),
Aria, 'Love in Her Eyes' (Acis and Galatea), Handel (Heddle Nash),
'Symphony No.5 in C Minor', Beethoven,
'Symphonic Patrol - A Negro Parade', L Stringfield
'Theme and Variations' (Suite No.3 in G), Tchaikovsky
Performance NotesEnglish premiere of 'Symphonic Patrol, "A Negro Parade", by Lamar Stringfield.

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Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/1943/57),
Programme (RAHE/1/1943/58)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/wy5wyYYwyy73k
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1943/58BBC Promenade Concerts (Sir Henry Wood's Forty-Ninth Season) - Prom 119 June 1943
RAHE/1/1943/57Promenade Concerts (Forty-ninth Season 1943) - Prospectus19 June-21 August 1943
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
_VoxosofifiopBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1943: Forty-Ninth Season55
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1360Nash; William 'Heddle' (1894-1961); English tenor
DS/UK/1494Lympany; Dame; Moura (1916-2005); English concert pianist
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/39Wood; Sir; Henry (3 March 1869 – 19 August 1944); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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