from Palmers Green Congregational Church
Order of Service
Hymn, Praise the Lord! Ye heavens adore Him (Cong.H. 5, A. and M. 292)
Invocation and Lord's Prayer
Psalm xlvi, God is our Refuge (Cong.H. 812)
Lesson, Matthew viii, 1-13
Hymn, City of God (Cong. H. 219, S.P. 468)
Prayers
Hymn, Lead us, Heavenly Father (Cong.H. 453, A. and M. 281)
Address by the Rev. J. Pickthall, Ph.D.
Hymn, Praise to the Holiest (Cong.H. 65, A. and M. 172)
Blessing
Organist, W.E. Ogden
Conductor, Wilfred Dawson
A. E. Rogers (baritone)
(From North)
Leader, Alfred Barker
Conductor, T. H. Morrison
Georges Bizet had written operas, including La jolie Fille de Perth, before the war of 1870, but at that date he was little known and success had not come to him. This overture to Sardou's Patrie (Fatherland) was admittedly inspired by the sufferings of his country during its terrible ordeal in the Franco-German war, and in power and originality it exceeded anything that he had composed hitherto.
Cherubini, born in Florence in 1760, lived to the great age of eighty-two. In the important development which music underwent during those years he had a considerable share, particularly with regard to church and theatre music in France.
The opera Ali Baba, though not completed until 1833, when the composer was seventy-three, is actually a revised version of an early work -Â Koukourgi - written forty years earlier.
Mme. Roesgen-Champion (harpsichord) with Orchestra, conducted by Piero Coppola : Les vieux seigneurs ; Les jeunes seigneurs (Couperin, arr. Coppola). Rigaudon, Musette, and Tambourin (Daquin, arr. Coppola)
Mischa Elman (violin) with Orchestra, conducted by Lawrence Colling wood: Romance in G, Op. 40, for Violin and Orchestra (Beethoven) .
Yvonne Arnaud (pianoforte) with String Orchestra : Rondo al' ungarese (Haydn). Valse Caprice (Saint-Saens)
Jascha Heifetz , with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Barbirolli : Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 (Saint-Saens)
Eileen Joyce (pianoforte) with Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Ray bould: Rapsodia sinfonica (Turina)
R. ELLIS ROBERTS
JOHN McKENNA (tenor) THE PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLE: John Francis (flute); David Martin (violin); Frederick Riddle (viola); James Whitehead (violoncello); Marie Korchinska (harp)
Despite the fact that Max Reger, the Bavarian composer, died in 1916 at the age of forty-three, he had already written prolifically in every branch of composition, except opera. Most of Reger's music is written in a highly involved contrapuntal style showing great imagination and technical mastery. He excelled as a composer of organ and chamber music. Among his chamber works are the Serenade for flute, violin, and viola and the Trio for violin, viola, 'cello, forming Op. 77. The Serenade, no less than the trio, is a refined and graceful work unusually simple in structure and light in texture.
6.10 ENSEMBLE
Suite en rocaille for flute, violin, viola, violoncello, and harp, Op. 84
Florent Schmitt i. Sans hate; 2. Anime ; 3. Sans lenteur; 4. Vif
(First Broadcast Performance in England)
Florent Schmitt, the French composer, was born three years before Max Reger. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire under, among others, Massenet and Faure. In 1900 Schmitt won the Grand Prix de Rome. 'A leading feature of his work', says a French critic, 'is a strength which sometimes produces violence and even brutality. On the other hand. the gentler side is not lacking; he can point tenderness, sorrow, and despair: and his work at times recalls the desolation of certain pages of Walt Whit-man.'
' The Wise Men of Gotham, and Others'
S. R. LITTLEWOOD
The fool has been a popular character in all countries and all ages. We may not care to go as far as the Russians, who usually made a fool the hero of their folk-tales on the principle that' the fool is wiser than the wise '. (Yet Wagner did, making his swan-song, Parsifal, a glorification of ' the pure fool '.) But everyone loves a good fool and we feel it is an unhappy village that has no idiot.
Literature abounds in delightful half-fools-roguish fools like Falstaff, angelic fools like Mr. Pickwick-but for pure, rich, undiluted folly you must turn to folk-lore, to such heroes as the Wise Men of Gotham, about whom S. R. Littlewood is going to talk this evening, to the Suabians (who have the same reputation in Germany), and to the immortal farmer, claimed by at least three English counties, who cut off the head of his calf, stuck between the bars of a gate, ' to save its life '.
(Section C)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
ALICE MOXON (soprano)
from St. Helen's, Westcliff-on-Sea
Order of Service
Acts of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Contrition
Hymn, Heart of Jesus (147)
Address by the Rev. Father A. ROCHE
Hymn, Ecce Panis Angelorum
Epistle and Gospel: Galatians iii,
16-22 ; St. Luke xvii, 11-19
Pater Noster
Hymn, Soul of my Saviour (60 ; W.H.
74)
(The hymns are taken from ' The Hymn and Evening Service Book') ')
An appeal on behalf of THE VICTORIA HOSPITAL, GUERNSEY, by Major-General E. N. BROADBENT , C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Lieutenant-
Governor of Guernsey
This is the first broadcast call for national help from an institution in the Channel Islands. The Victoria Hospital is the only hospital in Guernsey supported by voluntary contributions, and of late very necessary extensive repairs and replacements have greatly strained the financial resources, though the islanders responded to an appeal to the extent of £3,000.
Now a fresh effort is being made to raise additional funds, due to the long-felt need of having a home for the nurses separate from the hospital building, and it is principally to help this work that His Excellency Major-General Broadbent is appealing. He has held the office of Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark for the past two years. In those ' holiday islands ' visitors from Great Britain not infrequently seek the beneficent services of Victoria Hospital -hence its title to a national appeal.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed]
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Conductor, LESLIE WOODGATE
Leader, HAROLD F. PETTS
Conductor, ERNEST W. GOSS
HAROLD WILLIAMS (baritone) from the Pavilion, Torquay
