Festival concerts: Book of music, 1938

Containers:

Volume Hince 1 2651

Component identifier:

Item 2651

Content Summary:

For choir of 5,000 voices and massed brass band.

Vocal scores with piano reduction.

For Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations 1938.

"Organised by the celebrations council to be given at The Royal Agricultural Society's Showground Moore Park, Sydney".

Conductor: Edgar L. Bainton.

Contains 12 songs.

"Australia, Happy isle" by Lindley Evans.

"The silver swan" by Orlando Gibbons.

"The challenge of Thor", "Britons alert" and "It comes from the misty ages" by Elgar.

"Psalm 148" by Gustav Holst.

"Land of ours" by Margaret Sutherland.

"Sing of Australia" by Alfred Hill.

"And the glory", "Lift up your heads" and "Hallelujah" by Handel.

"Jerusalem" by Perry.

"Grace Smith "Girvan" 40 High Street North Sydney" Handwritten, verso of cover.

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