(Section E)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Iris Lemare
Bernard Shore (viola)

Orchestra:
Overture, The Wasps - Vaughan Williams

Bernard Shore and Orchestra:
Concerto for viola and string orchestra...Christian Darnton
1. Allegretto con grazia;
2. Aria;
3. Intermezzo;
4. Dramatico maestoso
(First broadcast performance)

Orchestra:
Great Agrippa (or The Inky Boys), Ballet for five dancers after Struwwelpeter, for fourteen instruments and percussion...Elizabeth Maconchy
1. Promenade;
2. Mocking Dance;
3. Apparition of Great Agrippa;
4. Dance of Triumph;
5. Grotesque Dance;
6. Cheerful Dance
(First broadcast performance)

Passacaglia on a well-known theme...Gordon Jacob

Although ever since music became a public entertainment women have won high success as instrumentalists, it is only during the last decade or so that they have turned their attention to conducting. Among the younger women conductors one of the most promising is Iris Lemare, daughter of E. H. Lemare, the distiriguished organist. Miss Lemare has always taken great interest in young British composers, the performance of whose works she encourages at the Lemare Concerts held at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate. For instance, both Christian Darnton's Viola Concerto and Elizabeth Maconchy's ballet Great Agrippa received first performances at Miss Lemare's concerts.
Christian Darnton 's Concerto for viola and orchestra was commissioned by Bernard Shore during the winter of 1934-5. Like all Darnton's music, this concerto follows a highly individual course. Both in form and texture the music is comparatively simple and straightforward to listen to.
Elizabeth Maconchy's 'Great Agrippa' or 'The Inky Boys' is a ballet for five dancers after 'Shockheaded Peter' with accompaniment for fourteen instruments and percussion.