Leader, MONTAGUE BREARLEY
Conductor,
STANFORD ROBINSON
ERNEST BUTCHER (baritone)
For many years the late Norman O'Neill was musical director at the Haymarket Theatre. Among his best incidental music written for the Hay- market productions was the music to Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird and Sir James Barrie 's Mary Rose. The four dances from The Blue Bird now performed as a concert suite have attained wide popularity.
The First is the ' Dance of the Mist
Maids '. The mist shuts out the Land of Memory, and through it the children, Tyltyl and Myltyl, find their way. The Second is a ' Dance of Fire and Water ', who fight for supremacy. The Third is the ' Dance of the Stars ' in the Palace of Night. Lastly comes the ' Dance of the Hours', who come out of the grandfather clock when Tyltyl turns the magic stone.
Songs:
The Irish Mile.................Butcher Women ............ Lyall Phillips Whistling Danny Lohr
Selection, Monckton Melodies arr. Stanford Robinson