THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE Composer
Overture, The Black Sheep
T ESLIE WOODGATE is one of the young
English composers of the present day, most of whose work is strongly influenced by the prevailing enthusiasm for folk song. A distinguished student of the Royal College of Music, he won a Carnegie Award in 1923, when he was exactly twenty-one years of age, probably the youngest composer, who has ever gained that distinction.
The Overture Black Sheep was intended originally as the Overture to a Ballet of the same name. Its characters were to be such time-honoured nursery favourites as King Cole, the Queen of Hearts, Jack and Jill, and the Black Sheep himself, the son of King Cole and the Queen of Hearts. The old nursery song of the Black Sheep plays a leading part in the Overture, and the opening theme stands for the Queen of Hearts. King Cole's tune is the pompous G Minor theme, four beats in the bar, which comes after ' Boys and Girls, come out to play.' The other material is all original, and the Overture is designed in the gayest spirits, as its light-hearted title suggests.
8.8 STUART ROBERTSON (Bass) and Orchestra
The Three Travellers (Anon.)
How should I your true-love know ? (Shakespeare) The Tyrant (Robert Green) .
8.15 THE WIRELESS CHORUS
Part Songs :
To Sleep (William Cartwright , 1651)
The Fruits of Love (George Peel) To the Water Nymphs (Herrick) Amarillis (Herrick)
8.23 ORCHESTRA
English Dance Suite
Pastorale Dance; Country Dance; Hornpipe
8.35 STUART ROBERTSON
Abiding Joys (Fletcher)
A Wooing Song (Old Kentish Ballad)
The Secret Stair (First Performance) (
George MacdonaM )
Bring us in good ale (Fifteenth Century)
(Anon.)
8.42 Chorus
I got a Home in-a dat Rock (Men's Voices) I got a Robe (Mixed Voices)
8.50 ORCHESTRA
Impression, ' Caerdydd'