Conductor, B. WALTON O'DONXELL
MAY HUXLEY (Sopraro)
MAY HUXLEY
Softly sighs the Voice of Evening (Der Freischiitz) (The Marksman).............. Weber BAND
First Mephisto Waltz .. Liszt, air. R. T. Chilton
MAY HUXLEY
A Dedication ......................... Franz Fair House of Joy .................... Quiller List to mo, Rosebud................... Korbag
BAND
Overture, The Wreckers ........ Ethel Smyth
IN this prelude to an opera which tells a grim story of coastal wrecking of ships for the purpose of plunder, religious fervour incredibly allied to this practice in the character of the Cornish natives, the condemnation of the lovers to death by drowning in a smugglers' cave, and a strange mingling of romance and cruelty, Dame Ethel Smyth has brought together the main themes of the opera which illustrate these incongruous but closely related elements. The Wreckers had its first performance in Leipzig in 1906, was given in London before the War, and in two or three seasons after it, the most recent being in September last at Covent Garden Theatre. Listeners will remember that it was then broadcast.
MAY HUXLEY
'Tis a Madness .................... (Figaro) Alleluja .......................... Mozart
BAND
Oriental Fantasy, Islamey
Balakirev, arr. R. J. F. H.