Elgar's Fifth

Composers Datebook by American Public Media

Sep 18, 202600:02:00Health

Synopsis On today’s date in 1930, in Kingsway Hall in London, British composer Edward Elgar conducted the first performance of his Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5, the last in this popular series. Two of the previous m...

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