GERTRUDE JOHNSON (Soprano)
ANTONIO BROSA (Violin)
THE WntELESS CHOBUS
(Chorus Master, STANFORD RoBiNSON )
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA, conducted by PEDBO G. MORALES
'PEDRO G. MORALES , who has organized -L this concert of representative present-day Spanish music, is a distinguished poet, composer, conductor,string player and critic (bom in 1879) who is known in Spain as a leading authority on English music, and here as a welcome unofHcial ambassador of Spanish music. His concerts in England after the war served to Introduce to us a good many now Spanish works, and in 1927 he gave the Srst B.B.C. concert of Spanish symphonic music under a Spanish conductor. The programme contains pieces now being performed for the Brat or second time in this country: Turina. de Falla and Morales belong to the South of Spain. The predominating type of music, as almost always in Spanish programmes, is Andatuaian, though the art songs (the form of music the least cultivated of all in Spain) are essentially Latin in style, having nothing in common with Spanish folk-lore.
TOAQUIN TURINA , though a Spaniard, had a Parisian musical education; his talents soon became widely known, and his career as pianist, conductor, composer and teacher has been distinguished.
The three Fantastic
.DoMCM (dedicated to the Composer's wife) embody Turina's ideas, in colour and rhythm, of the moods of various dances.
JULIO FRANCES , violinist, conductor and composer, is a Violin Professor at the Spanish Royal Conservatoire of Music. He founded a quartet which is known by his name and the Orquesta de Cuerda in Madrid. His compositions include choral and orchestra! works.