From the Royal Festival Hall, London
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The BBC Light Programme in association with the LCC presents the first concert in the BBC Light Music Festival 1960
From the Royal Festival Hall, London

1. Cavalcade of Light Music
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader: William Armon)
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
With guest conductors Ronald Binge, Sidney Torch, Montague Phillips, Gilbert Vinter conducting their own music
Olga Gwynne, soprano
James Milligan, baritone
The George Mitchell Singers
Conductor: George Mitchell
Introduced by Frank Phillips
Produced by Geoffrey Brand

7.30-8.15
National Anthem: arr. Gordon Jacob
Orchestra:
March: Knightsbridge (London Suite) Impression of a Princess...Eric Coates
Waltz: A State Ball at Buckingham Palace (Suite: London Cameos)...Haydn Wood Overture: Hampton Court...Montague Phillips (BBC Commission) Conducted by the composer
Soloists, Singers, and Orchestra: Sixty Years of Shows...arr. Sidney Torch Conducted by Sidney Torch

9.0-10.0
James Milligan and Orchestra:
Prologue (Pagliacci)...Leoncavallo
Orchestra:
Fairy Coach: Cinderella Waltz...Ernest Tomlinson
Portrait of a Flirt...Robert Farnon
Las Castanuelas (The Castanets)...Ronald Binge
Singers and Orchestra:
Elizabethan Serenade; Cockles and Mussels...Ronald Binge
Conducted by the Composer
The Singers (unaccompanied):
Loch Lomond; The Battle of Jericho...arr. George Mitchell
Orchestra:
Little Island Rhapsody
Concert March: Cock a-hoop (First performance)...Gilbert Vinter
Conducted by the Composer
Suite: Duel for Drummers...Sidney Torch
(BBC Commission: First performance)
Conducted by the Composer
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(The whole of this programme is being heard by listeners to Norsk Rikskringkasting, Oslo and Yleisradio, Helsinki; Part 1 is heard by Danmarks Radio, Copenhagen; Part 2 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg)