Relayed from the Queen's Hall
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
35th Season
TATIANA MAKUSHINA (Soprano)
ROY HENDERSON (Baritone)
MARIE HALL (Violin)
SIR HENRY WOOD and his SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Leader, CHARLES WOODHOUSE)
Tchaikovsky Concert
ORCHESTRA
Danse Cosaque (' Mazeppa ')
TATIANA MAKUSHINA, with Orchestra
Légende
As a Blade of Grass
TCHAIKOVSKY'S great gifts of melody naturally lend themselves well to song composition, and there is nothing astonishing in the popularity of some of his vocal pieces, both grave and gay.
This legend of the child Jesus in His garden is of an almost folk·song simplicity, making its appeal, and a very direct appeal it is, without recourse to any elaborate means. It tells how when He had made the roses bloom in His garden, ho bade the Jewish children come, and how they robbed the trees until nothing was left for Him but the thorns, and how they made a wreath of the thorns and crowned His brow with it.
The other is a much more elaborate song, both for the voice and the accompaniment, and at the very end the singer winds it up with a little cadenza. In the several verses, the singer likens his own fate to that of a blade of grass which is cut down by the mowers, a bush of berries which the woodmen cut for its wands, reminding his broken heart always that such was the fate appointed for it.
MARIE HALL and Orchestra
Concerto in D
Roy HENDERSON and Orchestra
Don Juan 's Serenade
THIS has no connection with the Opera, nor with any of the best-known stories, of Don Juan , but is just such a serenade as he might well have sung, in any of tho various guises in which we know him. The original text was a poem by Tolstoy. Tchaikovsky has set it very simply, and each strain begins with a little prelude such as a sercnader might play on his lute, a little running figure which leads very happily into the simple air given to the voice. Tho lady is called Nisetn, and she is bidden, as ladies are in every serenade, to come forth to the lover who awaits her in the moonlit garden.
ORCHESTRA
Symphony No. 5, in E Minor
(For notes on this concert see page 526.)