"On 24 and 25 April 1959 the Finchley Children's Music Group, which was formed in 1958 specially to perform "Noye's Fludde", gave what was billed as "the first amateur London performance" of the work, at All Saint's Church, Finchley; the cast included the operatic bass Norman Lumsden as Noah.In the United States, after a radio broadcast in New York City on 31 July 1958, the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary staged the US premiere on 16 March 1959.