Dorking Halls Concertgoers Society

Saturday, 11 February 1989

The Menagerie

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
with their guest John Julius, 2nd Viscount Norwich (narrator)

A concert entertainment of music and readings to mark the centenary of the founding of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Browne: Britannia’s Pastorale
Rameau: Le Rappel des Oiseaux
Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig
Benjamin Britten: The Wasp

Pope: Windsor Forest
Ginastera: Bluebird
Baker: The Peregrine
Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun

Cassely: Jolly Hunter
Geoffrey Twigg: The Duck / The Chicken

Goddard: Legende Pastorale
Yeats: Swans at Coole
Saint-Saens: Le Cygne

Sir john Lubbock: The Flapping of a Fly’s Wing
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumblebee

Interval

Cowper: The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
Saint-Saëns: Le Rossignol
Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

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

Igor Stravinsky: Pastorale
Igor Stravinsky: Dance of the Princesses from The Firebird
Igor Stravinsky: Berceuse from The Firebird
Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven

Rochester: Arabian Bird
Carroll/MacKenzie: Jabberwocky

Pushkin: The Nightingale and the Rose
Sherwin: A Nightingale