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The Worcester Festival Choral Society's Concert

Regional Programme
on Regional Programme Midland

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Relayed from
Th; Public Hall, Worcester
Excerpts from
'THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS '
(George Dyson ) . being Portraits from the Prologue to
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Set to Music for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
MARY HAMLIN (soprano)
PERCY MANCHESTER (tenor)
FRANK PHILLIPS (baritone)
THE FESTIVAL CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir IVOR ATKINS
DR. GEORGE DYSON 's ‘Canterbury Pilgrims ', founded on Chaucer, was written about three years ago. The composer was music master at Rugby before the War, and is now at Winchester College.

Contributors

Unknown:
George Dyson
Soprano:
Mary Hamlin
Tenor:
Percy Manchester
Conducted By:
Sir Ivor Atkins
Conducted By:
Dr. George Dyson
Source: Radio Times

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Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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