Three Rivers Music Society

Thursday, 18 May 1989, 8.00pm
Watersmeet, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire

The Menagerie

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
with their guest Johnny Morris (narrator)

Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumblebee

Edward Thomas: Adelstrop
Rameau: The Call of the Birds
John Betjeman: The Diary of a Church Mouse
John Woolrich: The Turkish Mouse

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

Douglas Coombes & Johnny Morris: Geminee, Geminii
Kenneth Grahame: From ‘The Wind in the Willows’ The Water Rat
Geoffrey Twigg: The Duck / The Chicken

James Thurber: The Littel Girl and the Wolf
‘Fats’ Waller: The Alligator Rag

Interval

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

Claude Debussy: Invocation to Pan
Kenneth Graham: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (from Wind in the Willows)

Benjamin Britten: Pan

Longfellow: Hiawatha
Tchaikovsky: The Canary

Traditional: There was a Lady Loved a Swine
Roald Dahl: The Three Little Pigs
Traditional: Old Sow

Couperin: Le Rossignol en Amour
Traditional: Sweet Nightingale
Sherwin: A Nightingale Sang