THE AUGMENTED WIRELESS MILITARY BAND.
Conducted by Lieut. B. WALTON O'DONNELL, M.V.O., F.R.A.M., R.M., relayed from The New Chenil Galleries, Chelsea
STUART ROBERTSON (Bass)
PART I.-BRITISH PROGRAMME
BAND
SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE has had a long and busy musical life. t.e was born in 1847, and has, happily, by no means retired from active life. Latterly he has been engaged in writing liis reminiscences.
He has written a good deal of music for stale works - Marmion, Ravenswood, Coriolanus, and Barrie's Little Minister, which was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1897. All the tunes in the Overture are original, except the familiar air of Duncan Cray, which peeps in dining the first half of the piece, and is a good deal used in the ' development.' Barrie himself suggested the use of this tune.
STUART ROBERTSON
THIS piece was composed for performance by the massed Bands at Wembley on Empire Day two years ago. It is built upon a number of somewhat unfamiliar tunes, the first of which, Il adg Bui (Yellow Tim) was taken down by the Composer from a singer of folk-songs in County Cork. An Antrim tune, and snatches of The Green Ribbon, lead to the appearance, as a Euphonium solo, of A long the Ocean Shore. The Clarinets next start a chorus Jig,' and a Pipers' Dance is heard a little later. Two more tunes are used, and then the last section is made out of two Reels.