(Section E)
(Led by LAURANCE TURNER )
Conducted by WARWICK BRAITHWAITE
MAY BUSBY (soprano)
LYOF KNIPPER is a brilliant young Russian composer, some of whose work has been heard already by listeners. He holds a high musical position in the Soviet administration, particularly as official composer in the Moscow State Opera. In his idiom and orchestration he appears to have affinity with Stravinsky and, in some respects, with Schonberg. He has composed three symphonies, one of them based on songs of the Red Army, and about ten suites, several inspired by the adventures of the same mediæval rogue, Till Eulenspiegel, that inspired Richard Strauss, and others based on folk music collected in that region of Southern Asia Iving north of the Pamir Mountains.