CORONATION FANFARE
Orchestra Play at Queen'i Hall royaltTlistens (Received 3, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON,' April 2. The Dnk© and Duchess of Kent were among the audience at Queen's Hall to hear the first Coronation music "Flour--ish for a Coronation," by Vaiighan Williams, conducted by Sir Thomas Beeeham. The composition celebrates the crowning with fanfares on trumpets, the beating of drums and the pealing of bells. The words, supg by a Philharmonic Choir, are taken from the first Book of Kings, second Chronicles, the Psalms and a verse from Ohaucer.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 65, 3 April 1937, Page 5
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