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B.B.C. Symphony Concert: XIX

on National Programme Daventry

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Relayed from The Queen's Hall, London (Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)

Solo violoncello, Casals
Orator, Basil Maine
The National Chorus (Chorus master, Stanford Robinson)
The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra (leader Arthur Catterall)
Conductor, Adrian Boult

Part I: 8.0-9.0
Overture, Semiramide...Rossini
Concerto in B minor for Violoncello and Orchestra (Op.104) - Allegro, Adagio, Allegro...Dvorak

Part II: 9.15-10.20
First performance in London of "Morning Heroes"
A symphony for Orchestra, Chorus and Orator, by Arthur Bliss
Conducted by the composer
I. Hector's farewell to Andromache
II. The City arming
III. Vigil
IV. Achilles goes forth to battle
V. Now, Trumpeter, for thy Close
(a) Spring Offensive
(b) Dawn on the Somme
Notes and texts of choral sections will be found of pages 686 & 688.

Tickets can be obtained from Messrs Chappell's Box Office, Queen's Hall, [address removed], the usual agents, and from the British Broadcasting Corporation, [address removed]. Prices 2s. to 12s., including Entertainments Tax.

Contributors

MADAME:
SUGGIA, cello [not Casals?]

National Programme Daventry

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