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Last Night of the Proms

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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.)

Contributors

Contralto:
Constance Shacklock
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
[Orchestra] leader:
Paul Beard
[Orchestra] conductor:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Presenter:
Alvar Lidell

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