THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section C)
(Led by F. WEIST HILL)
Conducted by CONSTANT LAMBERT
WILLIAM WALTON 'S Portsmouth Point is already familiar to listeners, who will remember that its programme is suggested by an eighteenth century water-colour of the famous quay by Rowlandson. Walton's music has in turn suggested to McKnight Kauffer , the modern artist who so brilliantly decorates our poster picture gallery, a design for the drop curtain used recently at the Savoy Theatre.
Erik Satie , who has not been very long dead, figured rather as the bad boy of French music in his day. He was never deeply instructed in the complexities of music, yet he contrived by a kind of intellectual prankishness to achieve a reputation with the slenderest of equipments, and even to anticipate by a number of years the atonal experiments of the generation that succeeded his.
Thomas Roseingrave came of a musical
English family, but he spent much of his life in Dublin. He was a skilled musician, some of whose work deserves to be better known, but otherwise a most eccentric fellow. It is said that a love affair which miscarried sent him a little off his mental balance.
Walter Leigh is a young English composer of whom much is expected. A work of his has just been performed at the International Festival of Contemporary Music at Vienna.
The Lord of Burleigh is a ballet, the action of which has been made up from incidents and characters in Tennyson's works, and the music from various pieces by Mendelssohn.
The Krakoviak is by now very well known to listeners. As a ballet the Fete Polonaise, from which Krakoviak is taken, Glinka's music becomes doubly charming.