LEONARD GOWINGS (tenor)
THIS thoroughly British programme is of compositions by composers all of whom belong to the twentieth century. The most immediately popular of these, Sir Edward German and Eric Coates, who begin and end the programme, need no introduction whatever to listeners. Neither, for that matter, do Roger Quilter and Cyril Scott, fellow students, by the way, in their early days. Of the remainder, two, W. H. Squire and Harold Samuel, are both very familiar figures on the concert platform. York Bowen is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and Michael Head, a song writer of the younger school, finds his name more and more frequently in broadcast programmes. Albert Mallinson was in his day a song writer of distinction and great popularity, as indeed was Maud Valerie White, who, as a student, gained the select and very distinguished Mendelssohn Scholarship. Finally, the name of W. H. Aikin, whose setting of ' Sigh no more, Ladies ' and other Shakespearean verses, has rarely been absent from any issue of THE RADIO Times for a very long time.