Querschnitt
A cross-section of an Empire.
Devised by LANCE SIEVEKING and ROLF GARDINFR
Assisted by HALEY SIMPSON conducting
The WIRELESS MALE CHORUS and JACK PAYNE conducting his
B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA
The German youth of today joins hands across the centuries with the German youth who worked and sang before the Thirty Years War, colonising and reclaiming the wild and marshy Eastern provinces, bringing to servile and barbaric forces the light of ideals and civilization. The futile dream of an Empire beyond the Alps, and incessant civil war, put an end to this.
As in the sixteenth century
English strolling players were a familiar sight in the Germany of those days, with their Elizabethan songs, dances and plays, so in 1929 the youth of Britain is welcomed when its.young men and women visit the summer schools in Eastern Germany. The ideals of other days are recalled, and in their dances, plays and music a new understandmg comes about.
Great Germans remembered this evening :—
Martin Luther
Frederick the Great of Prussia Bach Mozart Goethe
Schiller Schumann
Hugo Wolf
Bismarck Wagner
Haydn Beethoven and many others