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BBC Singers at St John's, Smith Square

BBC Radio 3
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conductor John Poole
First of four concerts of music by living British composers
Giles Swayne CRY, for 28 amplified voices (BBC
Commission: first concert performance)
I .. . the immense virtuoso edifice of sound with whichthe splendid
BBC Singers amazed and enthralled us ... setting the vaults of St John 's humming like the firmament on the first morning of the world '
(SUNDAY TIMES)
(Given on 9 October 1980; next Tuesday: Howells and Rubbra)

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Conductor:
John Poole
Unknown:
Giles Swayne
Unknown:
St John
Source: Radio Times

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