★ Favourite pieces from the repertoire of The BBC Orchestra
(Section C)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Anthony Bernard
Anthony Bernard , who has been Director of Music at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, since 1932, gave many concerts at Savoy Hill during the early days of broadcasting with his London Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 1921. He studied with Leonard Borwick , John Ireland, and Sir Granville Bantock , and was in charge of the orchestral and conducting classes at the Royal College of Music in 1924-25. In the same year he was also associated with the British National Opera Company.