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Orchestral Concert

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on BBC Radio 3

of 20th-century music
DOROTHY DOROW (soprano) HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Maderna Biogramma (first broadcast performance in this country)
Boulez Improvisations sur Mallarmé (revised version)
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
(Given in the Free Trade Hall. Manchester, on 7 October)
It is just 50 years since the Hallfi Orchestra made its first broadcast from the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. This was on 16 October 1924, when the concert was conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty.

Contributors

Soprano:
Dorothy Dorow
Leader:
Martin Milner
Conducted By:
Maurice Handford
Conducted By:
Maderna Biogramma
Unknown:
Hamilton Harty.
Source: Radio Times

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