Programme for Boosey and Hawkes concerts in Cambridge and London

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      GB 1111 CRS/2/64
  • Dates of Creation
      28-31 May 1945
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      1 item

Scope and Content

Fourth Season 1944-1945 of Boosey and Hawkes concerts.

In Cambridge Theatre on 28th May:

Conducted by Karl Rankl, with the Strongs of the Lndon Philharmonic Orchestra. Performers include Else Cross, piano; Denis Egan, trumpet; Charles Gregory, horn; Cuthbert Kelly, speaker, and Peter Pears, tenor. Works performed: Handel: Concerto in G minor; Schoenberg: Ode to Napoloeon Buonaparte; Shostakovich: Concerto; Britten: Serenade.

In Wigmore Hall, London on 31st May:

Concert-introduction to Peter Grimes, introduced by Eric Crozier and Tyrone Guthrie. Performers include Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Edith Coates, Owen Brannigan, Valetta Jacopi, Roderick Jones, Edmund Donlevy, Morgan Jones, Blanche Turner, Minnia Bower, Tom Culbert, and Benjamin Britten at the piano.

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