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BBC Light Music Festival, 1960

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All British Programme
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(Max Jaffa is at the Spa, Scarborough)
(The second part of the programme is also being heard by listeners to Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg; Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne; Nationaal Instituut voor Radio, Brussels; Radio Lausanne)

The BBC Light Programme in association with the LCC presents the fifth concert in the BBC Light Music Festival, 1960
from the Royal Festival Hall, London
BBC Concert Orchestra (Leader, William Armon) Conductor, Vilem Tausky
Guest Conductor, Peter Yorke
Max Jaffa Intriduces the Trio
Max Jaffa, Reginald Kilbey, Jack Byfield
Owen Brannigan and Ernest Lush Two Men About Music Osian Ellis Voice and Harp
The Linden Singers
Conductor, William Llewellyn
Introduced by John Hobday

5: All British Programme
7.30-8.15
Orchestra
Overture: The Wasps ........... Vaughan Williams
Vanity Fair ........................ Anthony Collins
Max Jaffa Trio
Old English Airs .................. arr. Jack Byfield
Kashmiri Song ................... Amy Woodforde-Finden
Paraphrase on Nursery Rhymes ...... arr. Jack Byfield Trio and Singers
Variations on Oranges and Lemons. trad., arr. Harry New
Linden Singers (Unaccompanied)
Road to the Isles ........... trad., arr. Ian Humphris
Faery Chorus (The Immortal Hour)... Rutland Boughton
Hey Nonny No! ............................ John Hind Orchestra
Square Dance (The Witch Boy)............Leonard Salzedo

9.0-10.0
Orchestra
Overture: Tam O'Shanter ............... Malcolm Arnold
Musette (Sinfonia Pastorale) ........... Norman Fulton
Osian Ellis
Dance for harp and orchestra ......... Alun Hoddinott (BBC commission)
The Carefree Birds: Watching the Wheat Welsh trad., arr. Osian Ellis
Willy Boy (Nursery Song) ................ Osian Ellis
Owen Brannigan and Ernest Lush
Northumbrian Folk Songs
Orchestra
Music in the Peter Yorke Manner
Owen Brannigan, Singers, and Orchestra:
The Dam Busters....Eric Coates, words by Carlene Mair

Contributors

Presenter:
John Hobday
Producer:
Geoffrey Brand
Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
William Armon
Conductor:
Vilem Tausky
Guest Conductor:
Peter Yorke
Presenter/Musician:
Max Jaffa
Musician:
Reginald Kilbey
Musician:
Jack Byfield
Musician:
Owen Brannigan
Musician:
Ernest Lush
Singer/Harpist:
Osian Ellis
Singers:
The Linden Singers
Conductor:
William Llewellyn

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