DORIS OWENS (Contralto)
KENDALL TAYLOR
(Pianoforte)
THE WIRELESS MILITARY
BAND
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
BAND
Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla ' ....... Glinka
Suite............. German
Graceful Waltz ; Souvenir; Gipsy Dance
9.18 Dottis OWENS
9.25 BAND
Gipsy Rondo ...... Haydn Czardas , ' Hungarian Shepherd's Dance ' .... Gung'l
9.40 KENDALL TAYLOR
Impromptu in F Sharp
Chopin
Minuet (Homage to Frederick Dolius )
Cameron Taylor
Rush Hour in Hong-Kong ............ Chasins
9.48 Doris OWENS
9.55 BAND
Minuet Boccherini Intermezzo, Love in Cloverland ......... Peter
10.10 KENDALL TAYLOR
Triana Albeniz Concert Study in F Minor Dohnanyi
10-18 BAND
Suite from the Ballet ' Coppélia ' ......Delibes
WHEN Delibes began to write for the stage at the age of twenty-one, he soon showed that he had a capital sense of the theatre.' He brought out some short Comic Operas at the Lyric Theatre of Paris, and wrote a number of Operettas for other theatres. After periods as accompanist aud second Chorus Master at the Opera, he was commissioned to collaborate in a Ballet with the Polish Composer Minkus, and did it so well that he was asked to compose one himself. This was Coppclia, which came out in May, 1870. Its run was tragically interrupted by the outbreak, a few weeks later, of the Franco-Prussian War.
Many of tonight's listeners will remember the glories of Adeline Genee 's dancing when Coppélia was running at the Empire, London and others will find that the tunes in this selection have, in some way or other, already become familiar.
In the Suite moat commonly heard there are five pieces :-(1) Slavonic Theme, with Variations; (2) Festival Dances, with Waltz of the Hours ; (3) Nocturne ; (4) Automaton Music and Waltz ; (5) Hungarian Dance