(Solo violin, ALFREDO CAMPOLI) A name which appears frequently in broadcast programmes, but unhappily attached almost exclusively to one item, that of Zdenek Fibich. As a matter of fact, Fibich, who died in 1900, was, his day, prominent with Smetana and Dvorak in the renaissance of Bohemian music, which took place in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He wrote, example, a number of operas, some which are still in the repertory of le Prague Opera-house ; three symphonies; a number of symphonic ems ; and a great quantity of music all forms. That we should now know him merely as the composer of 'Poeme' a somewhat bitter reflection on a composer who enjoyed, in his day, more than ordinary reputation. he colour of his music is distinctly romantic; in his early days he was an ardent disciple of Schumann, though, later, he came to found his music on the folk songs of his native Bohemia.