May 12th (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture Zampa Herold
Petite suite de Concert Coleridge-Taylor
Songs
Non piu andrai (Marriage of Figaro) Mozart
Eri tu (Masked ball) Verdi
Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
Three Bavarian Dances Elgar
Songs
Di Provenza il mar (La Traviata) Verdi
Selection South Pacific Rodgers
Selection Mikado Sullivan
Conductor: John Crossdale
June 9th (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture Pique Dam Suppe
Spanish Dances (No 2 and 5) Moszkowski
Slavonic Rhapsody No 1 Friedeman
Violin Concerto op 64 Mendelssohn
Philip Sutton violin
Overture Mastersingers of Nurnberg Wagner
Invitation to the Dance Weber
Elizabethan Serenade Binge
Selection Kismet Wright/Forrest/Borodin
Conductor: John Crossdale
July 7th (Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture Bronze Horse Auber
Serenade for strings in E Minor Elgar
Slavonic Dances Dvorak
Songs: Barbara Heywood (soprano)
Dove Sono (Marriage of Figaro) Mozart
Caro nome (Rigoleto) Verdi
Matinee Musicales Rossini/Britten
Suite ‘Water Music’ Handel
Skaters Waltz Waldteufel
Songs:
Barcarolle ‘Night of Stars’ Offenbach
Rose softly blooming Spohr
Il Bacio Arditi
Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 Elgar
Conductor: John Crossdale
August 4th (Kings Hall Belle Vue gardens)
Overture Tencredi Rossini
Selection ‘Tales of Hoffman’ Offenbach
Songs, Alan Baldwin (tenor)
Your tiny hand is frozen (La Boheme) Puccini
Eleanore Coleridge-Taylor
Ballet Suite Gayaneh Khatchaturian
Overture Russlan and Ludmilla Glinka
Suite in E flat Holst
Songs:
O maiden my maiden (Frederica) Lehar
I hear you calling me Marshall
Take a pair of sparkling eyes (Gondoliers) Gilbert and Sullivan
Marche Lorraine Ganne
Conductor: John Crossdale
September 8th (Kings Hall Belle Vue Gardens)
Overture Robespierre Litolff
Judex (morx et Vita) Gounod
Piano concerto No 2 Shostakovich
Michael Hancock, Piano
Overture Italian girl in Algiers Rossini
Waltz Acclamations Waldteuffal
Soloist:
Two preludes Rachmaninov
Two fairy tales Medtner
Selection White Horse Inn Benatzky/Stolz
John Crossdale conductor
October 6 (programme missing)
December 16 (Manchester Free Trade Hall)
Overture Benvenuto Cellini Berlioz
The Manchester Girls Choir:
I went out a marketing Hungarian Folk Song arr Veresse
Fain would I change that note Thiman
Red poppies Fraser
Joshua fight de battle ob Jericho Negro Spiritual
De Virgin Mary had a baby boy Negro Spritual
Piano concerto No 2 in G minor Mendelssohn
Anthony Goldstone Piano
Rhapsody Espana Chabrier
The Manchester Girls Choir:
Rejoice and be merry arr Orch. Acc. C. Davie
Andante Spianata and Grand Polonaise Brilliante for op 22 piano/orchestra Chopin
Entry of the Queen of Sheba Handel
Jerusalem Parry
John Crossdale: Conductor