Specially arranged for Children
Relayed from the WINTER GARDENS,
BOURNEMOUTH
THE BOURNEMOUTH Municipal AUGMENTED
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir DAN GODFREY
SYLVA VAN Dyck (Soprano)
THE sights and sounds of Italy, which country
Mendelssohn visited when he was twenty-one, inspired this Symphony. It has four Movements.
First we have a quick and active Movement, full of youthful joy.
Next follows a rather slow, steadily-movmg piece, often called 'The Pilgrim's March, though Mendelssohn never gave it that name.
The Third Movement is a graceful light Minuet. The Finale was, like the First Movement, written in Rome. It perhaps represents the spirit of the Mid-Lent Carnival which Mendelssohn saw when he was there. At any rate, its chief tunes are all typical lively Italian dance-tunes.