(From Birmingham)
The BIRMINGHAMStudio AUGMENTED
ORCHESTRA
(Leader, FRANKCANTELL)
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
ORSMOND AXDERTON , Bantook's biogrnpher, tells us that the Overture, which was first heard at the Worcester Festival of the Three Choirs in 1911, was conceived with Sophocles' (Edipus at Colonus in mind, and that it aims at suggesting the working of Fate-and, in its close, the peaceful end which (Edipus found at Colonus. The second main tune (four Horns and Solo Violin), we are told, stands for (Edipus' daughter Antigone.