Harold Williams (Baritone)
The Wireless Military Band
Conducted by B. Walton O 'Donnell

For the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, Sir Arthur Sullivan composed two very different pieces of music, one in a thoroughly popular form, and tho other for use in church or amid surroundings of solemn ceremony. The latter was a Festival Te Deum, performed first at the Chester Festival in that year, 1897. The other, which is to be played this afternoon, was a lighthearted and graceful Ballet, which had its first performance on the Alhambra stage on the actual Jubilee day in the same year.
Though it is but seldom heard now, it is a good example of Sullivan's happy way of blending lighthearted tunes with sound orchestration and workmanship generally. It included, for instance, a Fugue, which was actually danced, not by any means a usual number in a ballet. To the musical world, that was naturally the most interesting feature of the work.
There is a vigorous, almost stormy introduction, which dies away very softly. The next movement, also beginning softly, is the entrance of the Hunters, a brisk movement in 6.4 time, at that date still something of a novelty. It leads through a rapid passage in common time to a dainty waltz movement. That, in turn, passes through a short movement in jig time to a boisterous Galop, and, with a brief return to the waltz, the Suite comes to an end.

Occasional Overture - Handel
Fantasia from tho Ballet, Victoria and Merrie England' - Sullivan

4.38 HAROLD Williams Marishka, Marishka - arr. Korbay
Had a horse - arr. Korbay
Shepherd,see thy horse's foaming inano - arr. Korbay

4.46 BAND Alsatian Scenes Sunday Morning; In the Wineshop ; Under the Limes ; Sunday Evening - Massenet

5.10 HAROLD WILLIAMS Rosario (Anchor Song) - Easthope Martin
Casey's Concertina (a Santiago Hornpipe) - Easthope Martin
Sea Voices(Outward Bound) - Easthope Martin

5.18 BAND Slavonic Danco, No. 3 - Dvorak
Hymn to the Sun - Rimsky-Korsakov
Rakoczy March - Berlioz