THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND, conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
ViVIEN LAMBELET (Soprano); FREDERICK GRlSEWOOD (Baritone); RONALD GOURLEY
(Entertainer)

THE Sea Pieces, originally written for Pianoforte, contain some of the best and, in the sense of impressiveness, the biggest, of MacDowell's short pieces. Each piece is preceded by a line or two of poetry, generally the Composer's own.

(a) Before To the Sea, MacDowell has written: 'Ocean, thou mighty monster.' 'With dignity and breadth' is the indication.

(b) From a Wandering Iceberg has this stanza prefixed:
'An errant princess of the North,
A virgin snowy white,
Sails adown the summer seas
To realms of burning light.'

(c) A.D. MDCXX. A suggestion of the spirit of the Pilgrim Fathers as they voyaged to a new land.

(d) Starlight. A piece marked to be played 'tenderly.'

(e) Song.
'A merry song, a chorus brave,
And yet a sigh regret
For roses sweet, in woodland lanes -
Ah, love can ne'er forget!'

(f) Front the Depths. 'And who shall sound the mystery of the sea?'

(g) Nautilus. A fairy sail and a fairy boat.'

(h) In Mid-Ocean.
'Inexorable!
Thou straight line of eternal fate
That ring'st the world,
Whilst on thy moaning breast
We play our puny parts
And reckon us immortal I'

8.55 RONALD GOURLEY (Entertainer at the Piano)