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MUSIC IN MINIATURE - Light Programme, 23 May 1946 20.30
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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