From Birmingham
The Birmingham Studio Augmented Orchestra
(Leader, Frank Cantell)
Conducted by David Stephen
Margaret Stephen (Soprano)

Orchestra
Overture, "1745" - W.B. Moonie

Mr. Moonie, son of a distinguished father who was for many years a musical leader in Edinburgh, has carried on the family activities. After a period of study at home and in Frankfort, he returned to Edinburgh, and for twenty years has associated himself with music there. His compositions are largely concerned with Scottish life and scenes. Here he has cast into the form of a Concert Overture his impressions of the burning patriotism and heroic deeds in the stirring days of the '45, when Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his father's standard in Glenfinnan, held court at Holyrood, and finally was defeated at Culloden.

Margaret Stephen, Chorus and Orchestra
Cantata, "The Wife of Usherswell" - David Stephen

Mr. Stephen, a Dundee man, is well known to his countrymen as organ recitalist, conductor, and Director of the Carnegie School of Music in Dunfermline. His recent lectures from Dundee upon Scottish Instrumental Music will be remembered by many listeners, who will be interested to have another example of his work in composition.
He has set an old ballad which Scott says was taken down from the recitation of an old woman at Kirkhill, in West Lothian. It tells how the wife of Usherswell lost her three sons, whom she had "sent o'er the sea". She ardently wished for their return "in earthly flesh and blood", and about Martinmas her sons returned, in human likeness, their hats made of the birk (birch) that grew "at the gates o' Paradise". She made a feast for them, and sat by their bedside in the night. When the cock crew, one said to another,
"'Tis time we were away".
"Gin we be mist out o' our place
A sair pain we maun bide.
Fare ye weel, my mother dear!
Fareweel to barn and byre!
And fare ye weel, the bonny lass
That kindles my mother's fire".

Orchestra
Variations on a Scottish Melody - H.A. Carruthers

Margaret Stephen
(Scots Nursery Songs): - arr. Michael Diack
Wee Willie Winkie
Cradle Song
Feetikins
The Noble Nature - Cleghorn Thomson
Fair Daffodils - Ethel Angless

Orchestra
Fantasia, "Caledonia" - David Stephen