Conductor, Albert Cazabon
This is the first broadcast of this new combination formed and conducted by Albert Cazabon , well known on the air in connection with the Cazabon Trio. The Orchestre Intime has thirteen instrumentalists and will be led by Daniel Melsa , also well known to listeners.
Albert Cazabon used to conduct the City of Sydney Orchestra and while out in Australia Rave violin recitals and lectures at various important musical centres, and was frequently on the air. Soon after his return to England in 1937 he conducted the BBC Orchestra in two works of his own, ' The Song of the Great Bridge '—a tone poem inspired by Sydney Bridge—and ' Autumn Nocturne '.
In April last he returned from a tour with the Old Vic Company of the Mediterranean and the Near East. The Company played Shakespeare, classical comedy, and modern plays and appeared in Lisbon, the principal towns of Italy, and in Egypt.