Ambrose's Band from the May Fair Hotel
THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
LISTENERS recently heard the Overture, 'Fra Diavolo,' by the composer of the opera to which this belongs, and reference was made to the great store of light-hearted music which is lost to the present day through the disappearance of all the merry operas of that school.
This Overture is no less bright and melodious than that of ' Fra Diavolo' and the opera was equally successful in its own day. It was given first in Paris in 1841, and three years later made a popular success at the Princess' Theatre, London, under the name by which we now know it.
LIKE Glazounov, Ippolitov-Ivanov has been recognized by the present government of Russia. In 1923 he was given the title of ' People's Artist of the Republic.' Born in 1859 ho was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, and has held the posts of conductor at the Tiflis Opera, and Professor of Composition in the Conservatoire at Moscow. In composing music with an Eastern flavour he is on ground which is familiar to him, and these Caucasian Sketches are full of vivid suggestion of the near East.
(Daventry only)