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ReferencePG/1949/0617D

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Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, String Quartet No. 2, Civic Hall and Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton

Date17 Jun 1949

DescriptionSouvenir programme for Programme for 4 concerts during the Wolverhampton Festival of Contemporary Music. Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra was performed on 17 June 1949 by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, and Britten, String Quartet No. 2 was performed on 18 June 1949 by the Blech String Quartet at Civic Hall. The programme includes concert notes on the works, short biographies of the soloists, photographs of soloists and the orchestra leader and conductor, a list of members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and information about the forthcoming production of Britten Albert Herring, The Rape of Lucretia, and The Little Sweep (during the Music Festival). Programme price 1 and 6 pence.

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