BBC Winter Proms
FOR the first time in 10 years a season of Winter Promenade Concerts, as announced by the BBC, was held for a fortnight during January this year at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The con-. certs were enthusiastically attended although the season opened on the coldest night in Britain for five years. The BBC Symphony Orchestra was conducted by | Basil Cameron and Sir Adrian Boult. At the first concert there was a performance of Benjamin Britten’s "The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra" (Variations on a theme of Purcell). This was particularly appropriate at a time when so many young people, who are beginning to take an interest in the orchestra, were enjoying their Christmas and New Year holidays. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Piano Concerto, specially arranged for two pianos for the last St. Cecilia’s Day Festival, was played by Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick, who performed it on that occa_$1on, :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 409, 24 April 1947, Page 17
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153BBC Winter Proms New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 409, 24 April 1947, Page 17
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