Conducted by W. BARTLETT
ALICE MOXON (Soprano); GLYN EASTMAN (Bass);
SOLLOWAY (Violin)
(Pictures on page 552.)
GLAZOUNOV (born in 1865) is probably the most distinguished living Russian composer who does not work on very advanced ' modernist ' lines.
He is a master of orchestral effect, and in his ballets and other light pieces he has produced music that follows very agreeably, yet with a distinct individuality of its own, in the Tchaikovsky tradition.
The Seasons, a Suite of orchestral pieces
(to be heard this afternoon in an arrangement for Military Band), was originally written for a Ballet.
MACDOWELL'S brief song is that of a man and a woman. He recalls the joys that long ago spread before them when they first were sweethearts. Now the night of life draws on; yet. he declares, ' our love shall live for aye, sweetheart.'
SOME of the sincerest and most delicate compositions of this century were left by George Butterworth , who was killed in the war.
Folk-song colours all his thought, and his music tells plainly that he had deep within him the rapture and peace of the English countryside.
Come, My Own One, is a Sussex folk-song — one among several that he 'collected and arranged.