BELLA BAILLIE (Soprano)
THE MANX FESTIVAL CHOIR
THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
THE Manx Choir, of some sixty voices, may fairly claim to be the representative Choral
Society of the Isle of Man. It has won distinction wherever it has appeared, and holds one of the most important Shields competed for at Music Festivals. It naturally makes a speciality of the music of the Island, music which our larger island knows as yet but little. Within recent times some attention has been given to collecting traditional Manx melodies, and many tunes have been taken down from peasant singers. They have a good deal in common with what we know of Gaelic, music, and though some of the tunes inevitably recall English and Irish airs; there is no doubt a wealth of beautiful melody which is the islanders' undisputed property.
The national tune, included in the Choir's programme, is a strikingly original one, with a plaintive strain ; it has been published in various versions with different words. And in it, as in the other Manx airs in the programme, listeners will hear that the Island music has a charm of its own.
BAND Overture, ' Lea Dragons de Villars ' - Maillart
Slavonic Dance, No. 6 - Dvorak
BELLA BAILLIE Hush Song (Songs of Antrim and Donegal) - Harty
Herrin's in the Bay (Songs of Antrim and Donegal) - Harty
BAND Suite, ' In England ' By Wooded Ways; Lament; A Sussex Trudge - K. A. Wright, arr. L'errard. Williams
MANX CHOIR Mixed Voices: 0 Land of Our Birth (Manx National Anthem) - W. H. Gill
Elian Vannin - Somervell arr. M. L. Wood
Marry me, Mary Veen - arr. J. Lyons
Manx Fisherman's Hymn (All Traditional Manx Airs) - W. H. Gill
BAND Prelude, Chorale and Fugue - Bach
BELLA BAILLIE Three Songs of Fantasy The Fairies' Dance ; The Little Dreams ; A Funny Fellow - Michael Head
BAND A Gaelic Fantasy (Amhrain na n-Ghaedheal) (Songs of the Gael) - B. Walton O'Donnell
MANX CHOIR Womens' Voices : Music, when soft voices die - Charles Wood
The Rhine Maidens (' Rhinegold ') - Wagner, arr. McNaughton
The Lord is my Shepherd - Schubert
BAND Ballet Suite, ' La Source ' (The Fountain) Scarf Dance ; Love Scene and Variation ; Circassian Dance - Delibes
