Joan Gray (contralto)
Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
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First of three programmes
Herbert Howells , Who celebrates his sixtieth birthday a week today (October 17), wrote ' King David ' and ' Gavottc ' in 1919. are by ; those of the second by Sir Henry Newbolt.
The four sonnets of John Donne were set to music by William Wordsworth in 1944. Of the songs by Edmund Rubbra , the first three date from the years 1928 to 1931 and are settings to poems by Murdoch Maclean , James Thomson , and Shelley respectively. Psalm 150, ' Praise ye the Lord, (the last of ' Three Psalms '), was composed some five years ago.
Harold Rutland