BARRINGTON HOOPER (Tenor)
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN ANSELL
DELIBES, who had such success with his charming Ballets, was anxious to produce something more ambitious, on a grander scale, and wrote several works for the Opéra-Comique,' the last of these being the five-act Opera Kassya, which lie did not live to complete. It was finished by Massenet, and produced in 1891, two years after Delibos' death.
LISZT was a great lover of the music of the gipsies of Hungary, and mado a number of their tunes into Rhapsodies-a term he used, so he said, because he felt that it best expressed the epic element in the gipsies' performances. In his book The Gipsies and their Music in Hungary he gives a stirring account of such performances. Most of his twenty Rhapsodies were composed on his return in 1839 from a tour abroad, on which occasion a sword of honour was presented to him by Hungarian nobles. They were Piano solos, and Liszt later arranged some for Piano duet, and orchestrated a few. 9.0 WEATHER FORECAST; SECOND GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN
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