Querschnitt
A cross-section of an Empire.
Devised by Lance Sieveking and Rolf Gardiner
Assisted by Haley Simpson conducting The Wireless Male Chorus and Jack Payne conducting his B.B.C. Dance Orchestra

The German youth of today joins hands across the centuries with the German youth who worked and sang before the Thirty Years War, colonising and reclaiming the wild and marshy Eastern provinces, bringing to servile and barbaric forces the light of ideals and civilization. The futile dream of an Empire beyond the Alps, and incessant civil war, put an end to this.
As in the sixteenth century English strolling players were a familiar sight in the Germany of those days, with their Elizabethan songs, dances and plays, so in 1929 the youth of Britain is welcomed when its.young men and women visit the summer schools in Eastern Germany. The ideals of other days are recalled, and in their dances, plays and music a new understanding comes about.

Great Germans remembered this evening:-
Martin Luther, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Bach, Mozart, Goethe, Schiller, Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Bismarck, Wagner, Haydn, Beethoven and many others