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BTC1016 MEN OF GOODWILL

Variations on a Christmas Carol ('God rest ye merry, gentlemen')
Composition date: pre 18 Dec 1947
Genre: Incidental music
Performing forces:

2 fl, picc, 2 ob, 2 cl in B flat, 2 bn - 4 hn, 2 tpt in C, 2 trbn, bass trbn, tuba - timp, 2 perc (cymb, susp cymb, sd, td, bd, xyl) - harp - str

Duration: 8'

Notes

Composed for a radio feature compiled and produced by Laurence Gilliam and Leonard Cotterell that immediately preceded King George VI's Christmas Day message to the Empire. The fugal finale was not used in the broadcast (probably because the programme was in danger of over-running).

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