PERCY HEMING (Baritone)
HARRY ISAACS (Pianoforte)
THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by JOHN ANSELL
SAINT-SAENS composed this March in honour of his friend the painter, Henri Regnault , who was killed during the Siege of Paris in 1871. It is not, however, a Funeral March ; its name indicates quite clearly the composer's intention, and it does, indeed, embody something of triumph and exultation. Scholarly composer though he was, Saint-Saens could write thoroughly popular tunes when he chose, and this March is rich in good-going melodies.
There is a very short introduction and then woodwinds play the first main tune, in which the whole band soon joins. A slower section follows with a new tune ; the tenor trombone plays it first. There is a return of the opening music and then a quicker section brings the March to an end.
Sm ARTHUR SULLIVAN 'S first success was won with music inspired by a Shakespeare play, The Tempest. He composed it during the student years he spent in Leipzig as holder of the Mendelssohn scholarship of the Royal Academy of Music, and it was played soon after his return to London at one of the Crystal Palace Saturday concerts, August Manns being the conductor. It was played again in the following week, a very unusual distinction at these concerts, and soon afterwards the Halle Orchestra gave it in Manchester. Sullivan's reputation was thus firmly founded.
Throughout his busy life he composed a good deal of incidental music for plays, and even the long series of Gilbert and Sullivan operas had now and then to be interrupted for such work. The Overture and incidental music for Macbeth, carried out at Sir Henry Irving 's request for a revival at the Lyceum, was composed between Ruddigore and The Yeomen of the Guard. But in spite of the labours which these and many other enterprises entailed, the Macbeth music has much of the spontaneous freshness on which Sullivan could draw so freely.
(For 5.15-5.30 Programme see oppo8ite page)

BAND Marche Héroïque - Saint-Saens
Overture, ' Macbeth' - Sullivan
PERCY HEMING Love that's true - Handel
Devon Maid - Harty
Love went a-riding - Frank Bridge
BAND Three Dances (' The Bartered Bride ') - Smetana
HARRY ISAACS Prelude in G, Op. 32, No. 5 - Rachmaninov
Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5 - Rachmaninov
Nocturne in D Flat, Op. 27, No. 2 - Chopin
Waltz in D Flat, Op. 64, No. 1 - Chopin
Tango, Op. 165, No. 2 - Albeniz, arr. Godowski
Seguidillas, Op. 232, No. 5 - Albeniz
BAND Second Selection, ' Merrie England' - German
Overture, ' Phedre ' - Mae8etiet
PERCY Hemino Come you, Mary - Craxton
She dwelt among untrodden ways - Kelly
Ship of Rio - Keel
Band Suite (No. 2), ' L'Arlesienne ' (' Tho Maid of Aries - Bizet
Slav Dance - Dvorak