Retford Music Club

Retford Town Hall, Nottinghamshire
Wednesday, 7 October 1987

“The Menagerie”

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
with special guest Richard Baker (narrator)

Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig
Benjamin Britten: The Wasp
Sir john Lubbock: The Flapping of a Fly’s Wing
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumblebee

Edward Thomas: Adelstrop
Rameau: The Call of the Birds
DH Lawrence: Snake
Rimsky Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun (arrangement from Le Coq d’Or)

Thoams Moore: Lines from The Fire Worshipers
HS Leigh: T’was Ever Thus
Geoffrey Twigg: The Duck / The Chicken
Flanders/Swann: The Gnu

Rupert Brooke: Heaven
Andre Jolivet: The Fisherman’s Song
Armstrong-Gibbs: Silver
Noel Coward: Any Little Fish

Interval

From a Letter to the Times: The Cuckoo
Benjamin Britten: Cuckoo
From a Letter to the Times: The Cuckoo

Francis Poulenc: From ‘The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant’

Daniel Chua: Fish in Water
Saint-Saens: The Swan

Lionel Monckton: Two Little Sausages
Roald Dahl: The Three Little Pigs
Seiber: Foxtrot

Saint-Saens: The Nightingale
Keats: From Ode to a Nightingale
Sherwin: A Nightingale Sang