Concert Programmes 1971
May 14th (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture The Thievish Magpie Rossini
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mendelssohn
Songs: Alan Baldin (tenor)
Onaway! Awake, belove (Hiawtaha) Colerdige-Taylor
Flower Song (Carmen) Bizet
Waltz ‘Gold and Silver’ Lehar
Symphony No 2 (last movement) Sibelius
Drinking Song and Serenade (student prince) Romberg
Girls were made to Love and Kiss (Paganini) Lehar
Selection-West Side Story Bernstein
Conductor: John Crossdale
June 11th (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Children’s Overture Quilter
Mars and Jupiter from Planets Suite Holst
Songs: Alan Roscoe (baritone)
Madamina (Don Giovanni) Mozart
Simon the cellarer Halton
Intermezzo from ‘Jewlels of the Madonna’ Wolf-Ferrari
Caprioccio Espagnole Rimsky-Korsakov
Songs:
Toreador’s Song (Carmen) Bizet
Selection from Desert Song Romberg
Suite Pineapple Pole Sullivan arr. Mackerras
Conductor: John Crossdale
July 2nd (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture Roman Carnival Berlioz
Swan Lake Suite Tchaikovsky
Trumpet Concerto Haydn
Soloist: Malcolm Woodhouse
Peer Gynt Suite Grieg
Songs: Brian Jepson (tenor), Barbara Meaghan (soprano)
Angels Guard Thee (Berceuse de Jocelyn) Godard
Paradise for two (Maid of the mountain) Fraser-Simson
Only make believe (showboat) Kern
Heather on the hill Lerner-Loewe
Vilia (Merry Widow) Lehar
Sunrise, sunset (fiddler on the roof) Boch
Bolero Ravel
Conductor: John Crossdale
August 6th (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture Merry Wives of Windsor Nicolai
Suite Wand of Youth (no 2) Elgar
Songs: Glynis Prendergast, (soprano)
Merce, dilette amiche (Sicilian Vespers) Verdi
L’amero (Il re Pastore) Mozart
Rusulka Song to the Moon Dvorak
Slavnoic Rhapsody Friedeman
Selection Fiddler on the roof Boch
Intermezzo from Cavilleria Rusticana Mascagni
Songs:
Still as the night Bohm
Laughing Song (Die Fledermaus) Strauss
Toreador’s March (Carmen) Bizet
Conductor: John Crossdale
September 10th (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture Force of Destiny Verdi
Piano Concert in A minor Grieg
Soloist: John Wilson
Polovtsian Dances Bordin
Scheherazade suite Rimsky-Korsakov
Dream of Olwen Williams/May
Selection-Mary Poppins Sherman
Conductor: John Crossdale
October 8th (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture Die Felsenmuhle Reissiger
L’Arlesienne Suite (no 1) Bizet
Songs: Joanne Moore (mezzo soprano)
Voi Che sapete (Marriage of Figaro) Mozart
O mio Fernando (La Favorita) Donizetti
Una voce poco fa (Barber of Seville) Rossini
Fifth Symphony (last movement) Beethoven
Overture Orpheus in the underworld Offenbach
Suite-from the countryside Coates
Songs:
From South Pacific Rodgers/Hammerstein
La Danza (Gia la luna) Rossini
Selection-Camelot Loewe
Conductor: John Crossdale
December 18th (Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
Prince Igor Overture Borodin
A Ceremony of Carols Britten
The Festival Choir
Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky
Jack Rothstein violin
Overture Rienzi Wagner
Choir:
Cast thy burden upon the Lord (Elijah) Mendelssohn
Beside they cradle here I stand (Chrismas Oratorio) Bach
Rocking Czech
The Virgin’s slumber song Reger
For unto us a child is born Handel
Ziguenerweisen (Gipsy Airs) Sarasarte
Polka: Tritsch tratsch, Perpetuum Mobile, Blue Danube Strauss
Carols:
God rest ye merry gentlemen
Hark the herald angels sing
O come all ye faithful
Conductor: John Crossdale