THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section C)
(Led by F. WEIST HILL)
Conducted by VICTOR HELY-HUTCHIN -
SON
Overture, The Devil as Hydraulicus
Schubert
Suite Breve (Short Suite) ...... Dubois
1. Graceful little Dance ; 2. In Fun ; 3. Duet; 4. Waltzing ; 5. Miniature exotic March
ONE sometimes wonders whether France knows as little of our distinguished composers as England appears to do of hers. Francois Theodore Dubois , who died in 1924, was an important French musician in the fifty years of his activity. He won the Prix de Rome, held the post of organist at the Madeleine in succession to Saint-Saens, had operas produced at the Opera and the Opera-Comique, composed much successful organ and church music, was a member of the Institut, and became head of the Paris Conservatoire. It is disquieting to reflect that a French musician might at this moment be finding it necessary to consult an encyclopaedia in order to learn who on earth was, for example, Sir Charles Stanford.
Spanish Serenade... Glazounov, arr. Foulds Serenade .............. John Gough Icelandic Folk Dance Liefs St. Paul's Suite for Strings Holst
1. Jig; 2. Ostinato ; 3. Intermezzo ; 4. Dargason
THERE must be something stimulating
-L in writing with only the immediate applause of girls in mind-school-girls and little girls, of course-particularly if it comes off. It came off with Lewis Carroll and his ' Alice' stories; with Henry Purcell , who wrote his finest opera, Dido and Aeneas for a Seminary of Young Ladies at Chelsea, and with Gustav Hoist, whose St. Paul's Suite is among the most successful things he has written.
He composed it, in 1913, for the pupils of St. Paul's Girls' School, at Hammersmith, of which he had been music master since 1905, and they gave it the first performance.