10.8 Orchestra
Lullaby for a Modern Infant...Besly
Overture in D...Schubert

Maurice Besly is a young Yorkshireman who, since the war, has become well known, first in Oxford, as organist of Queen's College, and conductor of the Oxford Orchestra, and then in the wider world of music, as conductor and composer.

We hear a great deal about the 'forward' children of today. Mr. Besly playfully assumes that the modern babe demands, even in his cradle, something a little different from the old-fashioned Lullaby. It will be found, however, that this piece is not, after all, excessively 'modern,' at any rate in the sense of being cacophonous.

Schubert wrote three Overtures in the key of D, one when he was fifteen and the other two about five years later. One of the later ones is in two Movements, respectively slow and quick, the first being similar to a section of the Overture, we know by the name, of the play Rosamunde.