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(Prom 49) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the second half of the closing concert in the 1953 summer series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Constance Shacklock (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1. in D - Elgar

Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell - Benjamin Britten

Rule, Britannia - Arne-Sargent

Jerusalem - Parry

(Constance Shacklock appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

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Season
7
Episode
2
Air Date
19/Sep/1953
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(Prom 49) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the second half of the closing concert in the 1953 summer series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Constance Shacklock (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1. in D - Elgar

Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell - Benjamin Britten

Rule, Britannia - Arne-Sargent

Jerusalem - Parry

(Constance Shacklock appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

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