A Radio Pot-pourri by Julius Buerger
The BBC Revue Chorus
The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Produced and conducted by Stanford Robinson
With Clifford Collinson , famous travel talker as guide, we take you on a musical World Tour
Opening with music descriptive of the ship slowly moving away from the dock, you soon hear 'La Paloma' (Spanish) ; 'Madelon' (French) ; ' Tirritomba ' and ' La Danza' (Italian); authentic Arabian melodies including ' Call from the Muezzin ' and ' Dance of the Dervishes ' ; Hindu melodies, and music from Cambodia, Siam and Java ; Chinese Temple music, a Wedding March, a Funeral March, a Chinese Love Song ; then to Mexico. for ' La Cucaracha', and to the Southern States of North America for old Plantation Songs and Spirituals. An extract from the ' Rhapsody in Blue ' leads to a pot-pourri of Sousa marches, with a short coda founded on ' God Save the King' and the notes BBC to close.
In order to obtain the characteristic sounds in the oriental music, the orchestra includes Mandoline, Guitar, Zither, Banjo, Cymbalom, Celesta, and many unusual percussion instruments.
This feature was broadcast on Sunday in the Regional programme