1941-02-02

Performance Date(s):

Sunday, February 2, 1941

Known Number of Performances:

Programme Text:

[…]
YEATS COMMEMORATION PROGRAMME
Sunday, February 2nd 1941, at 8.15 p.m.

Overture Elegie Arnold Bax

CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN
[…]
POEMS
[…]
Interval of fifteen minutes

Irish Airs (a) Suite of Airs arr. Carl Hardebeck (b) Three Airs arr. Frederick May

BALLADS
“The Roaring Tinker” Michael O’Higgins
“Grandfather sang it” Michael O’Higgins
“The Old Stone Cross” W. O’Gorman
“Henry Middleton” W. O’Gorman
“The Pilgrim” Michael O’Higgins
“The Ghost of Roger Casement” Michael O’Higgins
“Come gather round me Parnelites” W. O’Gorman
“Come gather round me players all” W. O’Gorman

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http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/1744

Location of original programme:

Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 40/1941

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Composer(s):

Bax, Arnold (1883-1953)

Hardebeck, Carl G. (1869-1945)

May, Frederick (1911-1985)

Musical Work(s):

Come gather round me Parnelites