Conductors, Sir DAN GODFREY and GERALD CRAWFORD
Relayed from
The Pavilion, Bournemouth (Soloist, JOHN HUNT> ) (Conducted by THE COMPOSER)
This Ballet is divided into two parts : ' The Curse ' and ' The Awakening '. Part i opens with great excitement in the Palace. Attendants enter; the Princess is brought in; there is a Procession and the King and Queen proceed to the Throne. The Queen smiles graciously as she looks upon the fairies. The first fairy promises the Princess beauty, the second goodness, the third power, the fourth grace, the fifth happiness, and the sixth sweetness of voice. But the Ugly Fairy steps forward and says that she will give the Princess death. The Queen faints and the Ugly Fairy rides away on her broom-stick. However, the youngest of the fairies changes the sentence of death to sleep for twenty-one years, and the Princess falls asleep.
Part 2 shows the sleeping Princess.
The Prince is heard in the distance ; he enters and bends over her and she awakens, rises, and embraces him. Rejoicing and festivities begin in which all join.