WEBSTER BOOTH - TIMELINE (1950 TO 1956)

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27 March 1950. Jubilee performance of Hiawatha. Webster Booth, Harold Williams and Isobel Baillie were the soloists.

Harold Williams sings My Grandfather's Clock














Arnold Greir plays The Prize Song 

28 May - 2 June 1951 Six Festival of Britain Concerts
Webster Booth sang in these concerts held at Davis Theatre, Croydon.

11 July 1951, Leeds Town Hall

He Was Despised - Marjorie Thomas

20 October 1951. Elijah at Royal Albert Hall, with Dorothy Bond, Mary Jarred, Webster Booth and Owen Brannigan. Organist: Arnold Greir. Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. 

Marked by Webster Booth on the cover of his Elijah score:






Mary Jarred sings The Lord's Prayer

18 February 1953, Royal Albert Hall. Ash Wednesday

 Gladys Ripley sings Where Corals Lie (Elgar)


1 December 1953, Town Hall, Huddersfield

9 January 1954


















Webster Booth sings Heavenly Aida

7 April 1955 - Stainer's Crucifixion. 

Webster Booth and the up-and-coming baritone

 John Heddle Nash are  artists in the Good Friday performance of

Stainer's Crucifixion at All Souls', Langham Place with

choirs from Brighton, Reading, Colchester and Wisbech,

together with the BBC Chorus conducted by Leslie Woodgate,

and with Dr Thalben Ball at the organ. 

All Souls, Langham Place

 

O Mistress Mine - John Heddle Nash

 

This concert on 29 April 1955  was to celebrate Sir Malcolm's 60th birthday. He chose the soloists personally.







13 August 1955

Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - 61st season

ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tonight at 7.30.

Soloists: Webster Booth

Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (Coleridge Taylor)

Song Cycle: To Julia (Quilter - arranged Sargent)

Peter Katin (Piano)

BBC Choral Society (Chorus master: Leslie Woodgate)

Royal Choral Society,

BBC Symphony Orchestra (Leader: Paul Beard)

Conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent.

25 October 1955

Town Hall, Dewsbury.  

Judas Maccabaeus (Handel), 

Dewsbury and District Music Society

Honor Sheppard, Peggy Castle, Webster Booth and Owen Brannigan, 

Lemare Orchestra, conducted by Dr Percy G. Saunders.

Webster Booth:

Sound an Alarm (Judas Maccabaeus)

Honor Sheppard:

http://youtu.be/bQ8szwl3qAY

Owen Brannigan:
http://youtu.be/ktt1B9YIEv8

After a concert tour of the Cape Province, Webster Booth returned to the UK to fulfil a Messiah engagement with the Huddersfield Choral Society in December 1955. The Booths left the UK to settle in South Africa on board the Pretoria Castle in July 1956. 

Jean Collen
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