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Empire Day Pageant at the Royal Albert Hall

BBC Home Service
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Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth broadcasts a message to the youth of the Empire.

Music by the massed bands of the Brigade of Guards, directed by Captain G.H. Willcocks, M.B.E.; members of the Goldsmiths' Choral Union; and the Goldsmiths' Symphony Orchestra: conductor, Frederick Haggis. Organist, Arnold Grier.

The pageant is organised by the Empire Day Movement and the Sunday Empire News, and is arranged and directed by Colonel E.C. Heath, C.V.O., D.S.O., and Hugh Miller.

Contributors

Speaker:
H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth
Musicians:
Massed bands of the Brigade of Guards
Musical Director:
Captain G.H. Willcocks
Singers:
Members of the Goldsmiths' Choral Union
Musicians:
Goldsmiths' Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Frederick Haggis
Organist:
Arnold Grier
Pageant arranged and directed by:
Colonel E.C. Heath
Pageant arranged and directed by:
Hugh Miller
Commentator:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Source: Radio Times

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