< World Premiere > ARTHUR BLISS : River Music 1967 (for unaccompanied SATB div. choir) Wednesday 1 March, 1967 – Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Text : Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) Novello & Company, Ltd., 1967 (19626) Commisioned by the Greater London Council for the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 1 March, 1967