(From Birmingliam)
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FRANK CANTELL
THIS Suite has always been popular: it has a story running through the music somewhat as follows :-
A little girl who is too poor to have any of the good things of Christmas, watches other more fortunate children enjoying their feast. In a dream her dead mother comes to her and shows her a Christmas tree. With a fairy prince in the dream with her she sees the toys come from the tree, dance, and give her presents. At the end angels appear from Heaven, and take her to join her mother there.
The Suite is in six movements, (1) Valse, (2)
Procession of Gnomes, (3) Dance of the Mummers; (4) Dance of Chinese Dolls, (5) The Heavenly Ladder, (6) Dark Night.