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Concerts from 1950 - 1969

Wednesday 13th May 1953

Conductor: Ruth Lever

Soloists: Ernest Cass, Stanley Orton

Overture Pique Dame

Trumpet Concerto in E flat

Selection from Merrie England / Prologue to Pagliacci

Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1

Suppe

Haydn

German

Elgar

Concert in Heswall in aid of the Cleaver Hospital Jubilee Chapels Fund; also included piano solos

Sunday 30th October 1955

Conductor: David Connolly

Soloists: Jeanette Thompson, Robert Connolly, Stanley Orton

Overture The Magic Flute

Selection from Der Rosenkavalier

Come to me, Soothing Sleep

Bassoon Concerto K. 191

Symphony no. 8 in B minor

Serenade for Strings

The Bonny Earl of Moray

The Ash Grove

Roving in the Dew

War March of the Priests (Athalie)

Mozart

Richard Strauss

Handel

Mozart

Schubert

Elgar

arr. Wiseman

Britten

Butterworth

Mendelssohn

Sunday 8th March 1959

Overture Tancredi

Entr'act Wedgewood Blue

Three Light Pieces: Lubly Lu, Fifinette, Folie Bergere

Symphony no. 5 in B flat

Waltz Wine, Women and Song

Selection from The Pirates of Penzance

Conductor: Henry Wilson

Rossini

Ketelbey

Fletcher

Schubert

Strauss

Sullivan

Sunday 29th October 1967

Conductor: Henry Wilson

Soloist: Stanley Orton

Overture Rosamunde

Chanson de Matin

Prologue to Pagliacci

Suite from Ballet Egyptien

Symphony no. 1 in C major

When I First Put this Uniform on (Patience)

When Britain Really Ruled the Waves (Iolanthe)

Selection from Bless the Bride

Nautical overture Plymouth Hoe

Schubert

Elgar

Leoncavello

Luigini

Beethoven

Sullivan

Sullivan

Ellis

Ansell

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