THE WIRELESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
THE Belgian Composer, Gretry (1741-1813), began his musical life with a sore disappointment, and ended it with all kinds of honours and pensions. His disappointment lay in being turned out of a church choir as incapable at the age of eleven ; but when he found sympathetic masters, he got oh fast enough. At seventeen, he had written some little symphonies, and at eighteen he produced a Mass. Then he attracted the attention of a patron, who helped him to go to Italy. He was economical enough to travel to Rome on foot (falling in with an odd companion, a smuggler). He had still another rebuff there, for his master dismissed him as an incompetent student of composition.

THE ORCHESTRA Overture to 'L'épreuve villageoise' ('The Village Trial - Grétry
' Le Chasseur Maudit ' (' The Accursed Hunter - Franck