Premiere  

 Excellent new article. I've added a bit here and there. If Rust has the date of the opening night as 29 December 1903, he is mistaken: both The Times and The Manchester Guardian reviewed the premiere in their issues of 22 Dec, the former stating that it was given the previous evening, viz 21st. It would be nice to have a full list of numbers from the show. I see the British Library has a copy of the score, and I'll order it and jot the list down for use here. –