HELEN HENSCHEL (Soprano)
Livio MANNUCCI (Violoncello)
THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
DOIELDIEU was so modest about his own work that. if the story- be true. lie used to take the completed sections of his early Opera, The Caliph of Bagdad, to the Conservatoire in Paris where he was a professor, to ask his pupils for their verdict on the music. If they did not like it, he referred it to the great Mehul. Ho need have been in no doubt about the attractive qualities of his work ; nearly all his light-hearted and melodious operas won immediate success, and many of them held the stage for generations after his own day.