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MUSIC IN MINIATURE - Light Programme, 23 May 1946 20.30

A musical entertainment, given by Webster Booth (tenor), Margaret Good (piano), Marie Wilson (violin), Jean Stewart (viola), William Pleeth (cello), Geoffrey Gilbert (flute), George Elliott (guitar).

Music by J. C. Bach, Schumann, Rossini, Chopin, Richard Strauss, and Schubert

8 June 1946

FANTASIA - Light Programme, 7 October 1946 20.45

A musical feature with the BBC Theatre Orchestra and the BBC Theatre Chorus. This week - The Song of the Rivers with Ida Shepley (contralto) and Webster Booth (tenor).

Narrator, Preston Lockwood.

Conductor, Walter Goehr.

Produced by Harold Neden             Walter Goehr

MUSIC IN MINIATURE - BBC Home Service Basic, 12 November 1946 16.15

A musical entertainment given by Phyllis Sellick (piano). Webster Booth (tenor). Pauline Juler (clarinet), Max Salpeter and Colin Sauer (violins), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello), and J. Edward Merrett (double bass).

Programme arranged by Basil Douglas.

TUESDAY SERENADE - BBC Home Service Basic, 19 November 1946 21.15

BBC Theatre Orchestra (Leader, Alfred Barker )

Conductor, Walter Goehr

BBC Theatre Chorus

Irene Eisinger (soprano)

Webster Booth (tenor)

FANTASIA - Light Programme, 16 December 1946 20.45

A musical feature with the BBC Theatre Orchestra and Theatre Chorus, conducted by Harold Lowe.

This week A Hundred Years Ago with Doris Gambell, Webster Booth, Winifred Davey. Jane Grahame, Doris Nichols. and Roy Plomley.

Written by Aubrey Danvers-Walker.

Produced by Harold Neden.

TUESDAY SERENADE - BBC Home Service Basic, 11 February 1947 21.15

BBC Theatre Orchestra Conductor, Walter Goehr

BBC Theatre Chorus (Trained by John Clements )
Webster Booth (tenor)

Joan and Valerie Trimble - (two pianos)

Produced by Eric Fawcett

MUSIC IN MINIATURE - Light Programme, 7 August 1947 21.30 A musical entertainment given by Louis Kentner (piano), Webster Booth (tenor), Frederick Thurston and Stephen Waters (clarinets), Paul Draper (bassoon), David Martin (violin), Frederick Riddle (viola), and James Whitehead (cello).

Programme arranged by Basil Douglas

STARLIGHT - BBC Home Service Basic, 27 October 1947 19.15 This week Christopher Stone invites Webster Booth to talk with him and to sing for you. 

THE KENTUCKY MINSTRELS - BBC Home Service Basic, 2 December 1947 21.30

A black-faced minstrel show - Jimmy Rich, Fred Yule, John Duncan, and C. Denier Warren and Ike Hatch (Ivory and Ebony)

Guest Star, Webster Booth

Kentucky Banjo Team

Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra and Male Voice Chorus, conducted by Leslie Woodgate

At the organ. Charles Smart

Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren

Choral arrangements by Doris Arnold

Show devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper

      THE PLAIN MAN'S GUIDE TO MUSIC-10 - Light Programme, 9 December 1949 21.00 Sir Malcolm Sargent talks about the Oratorio and conducts illustrations from

Messiah (Handel), The Creation (Haydn), Elijah (Mendelssohn), Dream of Gerontius (Elgar)

Elsie Morison (soprano)

Mary Jarred (contralto)

Webster Booth (tenor)

Norman Walker (bass)

Royal Choral Society, BBC Opera Orchestra

Produced by Roger Fiske            Sir Malcolm Sargent.

HUGH THE DROVER - Third Programme, 13 March 1950 20.40 or Love in the Stocks, A romantic ballad opera in two acts.

Words by Harold Child, Music by Vaughan Williams.

BBC Opera Chorus

BBC Opera Orchestra Led by John Sharpe.

Conductor. Stanford Robinson

Presented by Mark Lubbock.  Narrator, Patrick Troughton.

Repetiteur, Leo Wurmser.

The constable: Owen Brannigan

Mary, the constable's daughter: Joyce Gartside

Aunt Jane. the constable's sister: Mary Jarred

John, the butcher: Frederick Sharp

The turnkey: Powell Lloyd

A showman: Fabian Smith

A sergeant: Denis Dowling

Hugh, the drover: Webster Booth

A cheap-jack: George Steam Scott

A shell-fish seller: Fisher Morgan

A primrose seller: Ethel Gedge

A ballad seller: David Holman

MUSIC IN MINIATURE - Light Programme, 28 July 1950 21.30 A musical entertainment given by Webster Booth (tenor), Leon Goossens (oboe), Julius Isserlis (piano), Alan Loveday (violin), Reginald Morley (violin), Max Gilbert (viola),Harvey Phillips (cello).

 Ernest Lush (accompanist).

Arranged by Basil Douglas.

MUSIC IN MINIATURE - BBC Home Service Basic, 29 August 1950 15.45 A musical entertainment - Webster Booth (tenor), Leon Goossens (oboe), Julius Isserlis (piano),  Alan Loveday (violin), Reginald Morley (violin), Max Gilbert (viola), Harvey Phillips (cello).

Ernest Lush (accompanist)

Programme arranged by Basil Douglas                 Leon Goosens

RING UP THE CURTAIN! - BBC Home Service Basic, 1 July 1951 16.00 Joyce Gartside (soprano), Webster Booth (tenor), Denis Dowling (baritone)

BBC Opera Chorus - Trained by Alan G. Melville

BBC Opera Orchestra - Leader, John Sharpe

Conductor, Stanford Robinson.

British Opera - The programme includes items from: The Siege of Rochelle, The Bohemian Girl, Maritana, The Lily of Killarney, Esmeralda, Ivanhoe, Shamus O'Brien,Koanga, The Immortal Hour, Fete Galante, Hugh the Drover, Sir John in Love.

Programme devised by Harold Neden

THESE RADIO TIMES - Light Programme, 27 October 1951 21.15 A happy history of Everyman's entertainment. With Henry Hall, Naunton Wayne, Edwin Styles, Howard Marshall, Webster Booth, Claude Dampier, Kenneth Leslie-Smith, Harry S. Pepper

 and the recorded voices of Davy Burnaby, Stewart MacPherson, John. Snagge, Richard Tauber, Gracie Fields. Nellie Wallace.

Everyman, with the wireless set: Anthony Armstrong.

Written by Gale Pednick.

Producer: Thuretan Holland

 SONG OF TWO CITIES - Light Programme, 18 November 1952 21.00 Paris and Vienna - Part 8 This story of a musical rivalry that spanned a century ends with music from two masterpieces Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II, the idol of Vienna, and The Tales of Hoffmann with which Offenbach triumphed in Paris even after his death.

Gwen Catley, Ruth Packer, Anna Pollak, Webster Booth, Trefor Jones, Roderick Jones

BBC Chorus - Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate

BBC Concert Orchestra - Leader, John Sharpe

Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

with Keith Pyott as the Voice of Paris and Rudolph Offenbach as the Voice of Vienna.

Devised by Kenneth Pakeman and written by Maurice Gorham.

Produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith and Kenneth Pakeman.

(Anna Pollak broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)

Haydn - THE CREATION - Third Programme, 4 December 1952 20.05

Ena Mitchell (soprano), Webster Booth (tenor), Norman Walker (bass)

BBC Chorus - Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate

BBC Symphony Orchestra - Leader, Paul Beard

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Parts 1 and 2

MUSIC OF COLERIDGE-TAYLOR - BBC Home Service Basic, 7 December 1952 16.00 

Webster Booth (tenor)

BBC Concert Orchestra - (Leader, John Sharpe )

Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

Suite: Othello

Song: Eleanore

Three Dream Dances

Song: Onaway!, awake, beloved (Hiawatha)

The story of GILBERT AND SULLIVAN - Light Programme, 25 December 1952 16.30 An adaptation from the sound-track of the forthcoming Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat production based on some episodes in the lives of Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert .Written for the screen by Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Baily (by permission of Bridget D'Oyly Carte )

Webster Booth, Martyn Green, Elsie Morison, Margery Thomas, John Cameron, Gordon Clinton, Owen Brannigan, Harold Williams, Tom Round, Muriel Brunskill, Jennifer Vyvyan, Joan Gillingham

London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.

Programme produced by Thurstan Holland

W S Gilbert: Robert Morley

Mrs Gilbert:: Isabel Dean

Arthur Sullivan: Maurice Evans

Richard D'Oyly Carte: Peter Finch

Helen D'Oyly Carte: Eileen Herlie

Mr Marston: Wilfred: Hyde White

Grace Marston: Dinah Sheridan

MIKADO - LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INCLUDING WEBSTER BOOTH

THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD -  BBC Home Service Basic, 18 January 1953 16.00

by Liza Lehmann

Elsie Morison (soprano), Audrey Brice (contralto), Webster Booth (tenor), Frederick Harvey (baritone)

BBC Chorus - Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate

BBC Concert Orchestra - Leader, John Sharpe

Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

DESERT ISLAND DISCS - BBC Home Service Basic, 3 April 1953 18.25

Webster Booth - (in a recorded programme) discusses with Roy Plomley the gramophone records he would choose to have with him if he were condemned to spend the rest of his life on a desert island.

29 April 1953 The Creation Royal Choral Society, Webster Booth (tenor) Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. Malcolm Sargent’s birthday concert.(from Webster’s score).

NIGHTS OF GLADNESS - Light Programme, 22 December 1953 20.00 Tribute to composers whose melodies have enriched the world of operetta, musical comedy, and revue.

Written by Gale Pedrick.

Introduced by The Man with the Opera Cloak and illustrated by scenes and music Chapter 9 - The music of: Nat D. Ayer, Harry Parr Davies, Emmerich Kalman

Singers: Victoria Elliott, Webster Booth, Joan Young, Dudley Rolph, Billie Baker, Dick James

BBC Chorus - Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate.

BBC Concert Orchestra Conducted by Guy Daines.

Musical adviser, Harold Neden.

Produced by Douglas Moodie.

I KNOW WHAT I LIKE - BBC Home Service Basic, 31 January 1954 18.30

Personalities of the radio and entertainment world introduce music of their own choice. 19-James Dyrenforth with Lorely Dyer (soprano), Webster Booth (tenor).

BBC Concert Orchestra - Leader, John Sharpe.

Conducted by Rae Jenkins.

Produced by Harold Neden.

GRAND HOTEL - Light Programme, 11 April 1954 19.30

Tom Jenkins and the Palm Court Orchestra.

Webster Booth (tenor)

HENRY WOOD PROMENADE CONCERTS - BBC Home Service Basic, 1 September 1954 19.30 Webster Booth (tenor), Iris Loveridge (piano),

Royal Choral Society

BBC Symphony Orchestra  - Leader, Paul Beard

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

BALLAD CONCERT - BBC Home Service Basic, 21 September 1954 18.45

The old songs we still love sung by Marion Lowe (soprano), Webster Booth (tenor), Raymond Newell (baritone)

with David McCallum and the Spa Orchestra

At the organ, Felton Rapley

At the piano, Clifton Helliwell

The programme includes: Thora, Where my caravan has rested, I hear you calling me, The Company Sergeant Major, A Summer Night

Produced by Harold Neden

BALLAD CONCERT - BBC Home Service Basic, 21 December 1954 18.35 The old songs we still love, sung by:Gwen Catley (soprano), Audrey Brice (contralto), Webster Booth (tenor), Owen Brannigan (bass-baritone)

David McCallum and the Spa Orchestra.

At the organ. Felton Rapley.

At the piano, Josephine Lee.

The programme includes Twickenham Ferry,  An Old Garden,The Star of Bethlehem, Until, Japanese Love Song, A Sergeant of the Line, April Morn, Nazareth.

Introduced by Lionel Marson.

Produced by Harold Neden. NAZARETH

IN LIGHTER MOOD - BBC Home Service Basic, 27 December 1954 15.15

BBC Concert Orchestra -Leader, John Sharpe

Conductor, Charles Mackerras

Webster Booth (tenor)

Programme presented by John Tylee.

Sir Malcolm Sargent introduces and conducts a GILBERT AND SULLIVAN CONCERT - BBC Television, 30 May 1955 21.15

with Jacqueline Delman (soprano) Marjorie Thomas (contralto)
Webster Booth (tenor), John Cameron (bass) and Chorus

The St. Cecilia Orchestra (Leader, Lionel Bentley ) Presented by Philip Bate

HENRY WOOD PROMENADE CONCERTS - Light Programme, 13 August 1955 19.30  Webster Booth (tenor), Peter Katin (piano)

BBC Choral Society - Chorus Master. Leslie Woodgate Royal Choral Society,

BBC Symphony Orchestra - Leader, Paul Beard

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

From the Royal Albert Hall , London

Part 1

GRAND HOTEL - Light Programme, 16 October 1955 21.00 Jean Pougnet and the Palm Court Orchestra. Visiting artist: Webster Booth

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN - BBC Home Service Basic, 25 December 1955 21.15

Hugh Burden, Clive Morton and Richard Humdall

The story of a great partnership in six episodes by Leslie Baily  - 4— The First Quarrel

Other parts played by: Eric Phillips, Olwen Brookes, George Skillan, Ysanne Churchman; and Betty Fleetwood. Narrator, Hugh Burden

The songs from the operas sung by: Webster Booth, Gwen Catley, Victoria Elliott, Arnold Matters, George James, Janet Howe, Denis Bowen , Gilbert Wright.

Pianist. Alan Richardson,

BBC Chorus - Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate.

BBC Concert Orchestra - Leader, John Sharpe

Conductor, Charles Mackerras.

Production by Vernon Harris

(The BBC acknowledges the assistance of Miss Bridget D'Oyly Carte and of Sir Newman Flower , the biographer of Sir Arthur Sullivan)

Compiled by Jean Collen 2014