From the Royal Festival Hall
Part 1:
Cavalcade
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FIFTEENTH SERIES

The BBC in association with the G.L.C. presents the opening concert from the ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON BBC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (90 players) comprising BBC CONCERT BBC MIDLAND ORCHESTRA LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins Leader. James Hutcheon
THE four concerts in this year's festival present highlights of the most popular light music programmes broadcast during the past year. The first part of tonight's concert is called Cavalcade and contains some scintillating music by Shostakovich. Dorita yPepe will give us some songs of Latin America, and Tommy Reilly will give the first public performance of a Prelude and Dance by Robert Farnon.
Friday Night Is Music Night, the second part of the concert, contains the great mixture of music which has made this programme so popular. Sidney Torch, appearing for the fourteenth time, has made a new arrangement of some old Victorian songs called Victorian Vanities.
BBC INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LIGHT MUSIC 1967

Victorian Vanities From left to right: John Lawrenson. Stephanie Voss, Cherry Llnd, and Leslie Fyson Details of all the Festival concerts may be obtained from the Royal Festival Hall
Part 1 at 7.30 IN THE HOME SERVICE Cavalcade Conducted by Marcus Dods 0 Dorita y Pepe Songs of Latin America Tommy Reilly (harmonica) Prelude and Dance..................Robert Farnon Other items include: Symphonic Dances (West Side Story) ...................Bernstein 0 Part 1 will also b< beard by listeners to Belgium and Denmark Executive producer, Charles Beardsall Assistant producer, Elizabeth Johnson Introduced by Jimmy Kingsbury Reg Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra will be playing In the foyer before the concert: recording in ' Grand Hotel ' tomorrow
Part 2 at 8.50 IN THE LIGHT PROGRAMME Stars of Friday Night is Music Night Conducted by Sidney Torch Cherry Lind Leslie Fyson Stephanie Voss John Lawrenson The Friday Knights Directed by John McCarthy Band of the Coldstream Guards Conducted by Captain Tmvor L. Sharpe, M.B.E. Director of Music 0 Victorian Vanities arr. Sidney Torch Other items include: 1812 Overture .....................Tchaikovsky (120 players) 0 Part 2 will also be heard by nsteners in Belgium and to Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Cologne) and the BBC World Service