Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
CARL FUCHS (Violoncello)
Relayed from THE PAVILION, BOURNEMOUTH
QAM HARTLEY BRAITHWAITE had his musical training at the Royal Academy of Music, London ; he held a scholarship there at the beginning of the present century. Best known as yet as composer for the pianoforte, he has, nevertheless, produced music in the larger forms which is worthy of an important place among that of his contemporaries.
This tone-poem received a Carnegie Award in 1923, and is published by the Carnegie Trustees in their Collection of Modem British Works.
CARL FUCHS , fine artist, great teacher, thorough musician, and most, lovable friend, is a 'collist of the old school in this, among other ways, that he knows the literature of his instrument, as the hurrying younger generation has no time to do. He can always tell his colleagues of music for the instrument which they ought to add to their repertoire, and, if they take his advice, they always find it wise. This afternoon he is playing such a concerto; unknown to the great public, it will be new to most present-day 'cellists, though they can bo sure in advance that Carl Fuchs would not play it unless it were musically worth while. Karl Eckert , pianist, violinist, and conductor, as well as composer, had completed an opera by the age of ten, and an oratorio at thirteen. Afterwards a pupil of Mendelssohn's, he held important conducting posts in many of the world's great opera houses. He died at Berlin in 1879. (Continued overleaf.)