GERTRUDE JOHNSON (Soprano) ANGUS MORRISON (Pianoforte)
THE WIRELESS CHORUS (Chorus-Master,
STANFORD ROBINSON )
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN ANSELL
VIOLETTA VALERY , in Verdi's Opera, is n. Parisian courtesan who, accustomed to love
Jightly, has at last had her heart touched by the sincerity of a suitor. Left alone for a while, she muses on this new joy. A free English version of tho words of the Air runs : ' Ah, perhaps 'tis he my heart foretold, when in the throng of pleasure,
Oft have I joy'd to shadow forth one whom alone I'd treasure.' First Performance Conducted by the COMPOSER)
CONSTANT LAMBERT is a young composer, not much over twenty-one. His Ballet, Romeo and Juliet, was recently produced by the Diaghilev Russian Ballet. Rio Grande is a setting of a poem by Edith Sitwell, beginning— On the Rio Grande
They don't dance no sarabande
What they danco instead is suggested in the music, which, wo are told, brings in fox-trot and Charleston rhythms.