Entertainment under the blue, with several star turns, on gramophone records
Written and presented by Giorgio R. Foa
Produced by Leslie Perowne
In this programme Giorgio R. Foa invites you to wander with him through little Mediterranean towns, across vineyards, over hillsides, and beside warm harbours, where, under benevolent skies, the people seem always to be making music. From the countries of the guitar, the serenade, and the mandolin come the melodies that you will hear tonight -great tenors such as Gigli and Tito Schipa singing operatic arias, the silvery concord of a mandolin band, the thrumming of a low guitar.
Throughout the programme you will be very much aware of the atmosphere in which such music is born, and there is half an hour's sure-fire entertainment from the first Florentine love ditty to the last sound of the sea washing the Mediterranean shore.