(Section D)
Conducted by Victor Hely-Hutchinson

Philip Sainton is not only a composer, but a distinguished player of wide experience in solo, chamber, and orchestral music. For a time viola player in the London String Quartet, making one of their extended tours with them. lie is now deputy principal viola of the B.B.C. Orchestra, sharing the first desk with Bernard Shore. As a composer, too, his name is known overseas, and these orchestral pieces have been played in New York, with Hoogstraaten conducting, as well as at Promenade Concerts in London. They were originally called Sea Pictures, which, with the titles of the two movements, gives all the necessary guidance for their understanding and enjoyment. Another original work of his, of which many listeners must have happy recollections, is the whimsical ballet The Dream of a Marionette, to his own scenario; it was played at a Promenade Concert in 1929 and broadcast.

Hugh Bradford, one of the youngest English composers who is making a name for himself, is also a performer - an accomplished pianist. He plays for the Camargo Ballet Society, and is one of those nimble players who can replace the whole orchestra on the keyboard if need be. He has recently produced a ballot for the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells Theatres, and in that. as in other musical directions, his career will be watched with keen interest. His Variations on a popular Theme were played in a Promenade Concert last September by Angus Morrison , to whom they are dedicated, and made a striking impression, by the sound knowledge they displayed of the pianoforte's capabilities and their skill in blending music with a merry sense of humour. In this new piece, of poetic and pictorial intent, he shows himself to be no loss surely at home in dealing with the orchestra.