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AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with Kenneth Essex (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
PETER WALLFISCH (piano)

Contributors

Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Cello:
Terence Weil
Piano:
Peter Wallfisch

YVONNE MINTON (contralto) RONALD DOWD (tenor)
FORBES ROBINSON (bass)
SCHOLA POLYPHONICA
Director, Henry Washington ALEXANDRA CHOIR
Conductor.
Charles Proctor CROYDON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Musical Director, Myers Foggin HARROW CHORAL SOCIETY Hon. Conductor,
Clarice Brooksbank
ROYAL CHORAL Society
WEMBLEY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Conductor, Rae Jenkins
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Broadcast on July 28, 1967
First In a series of fifteen weekly programmes ,

Contributors

Bass:
Schola Polyphonica
Director:
Henry Washington
Conductor:
Charles Proctor
Director:
Myers Foggin
Conductor:
Clarice Brooksbank
Conductor:
Rae Jenkins
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Two talks by GEORGE STEINER
Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge 1: The Language of Life
Emergence into the condition of articulateness has long been thought of as the very essence of man; words and creativeness were linked by both the Jewish and the Greek traditions. But modern science now makes us consider thinking about biology itself in terms of coding and messages. is our very physical being grammatical?
2: Tongues and forms: Feb. 9

An enquiry by EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
More and more artists are obsessed with technology and want to use its resources. industrialists are beginning to see the point. Can a link be forged between them?
Speakers include:
MAURICE AGIS, Tom BATHO HUMPHREY DANIELS
BARBARA LATHAM , JOHN LATHAM JASIA REICHARDT , JEFFREY SHAW ANDREW SHEARER
JOE TILSON , WILLAM TUCKER
Produced by Leonie Cohn

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Unknown:
Tom Batho
Unknown:
Humphrey Daniels
Unknown:
Barbara Latham
Unknown:
John Latham
Unknown:
Jasia Reichardt
Unknown:
Jeffrey Shaw
Unknown:
Andrew Shearer
Unknown:
Joe Tilson
Unknown:
Willam Tucker
Produced By:
Leonie Cohn

Two talks in which
RICHARD BEBE considers eighty years of dramatic performances on record
1: The Butterfly of Naturalism with the voices of SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE MADAME SECOND-WEBER
JEAN CROU É, HENRY AINLEY Max MILLER , DAN LENO
W. B. YEATS , SIR JOHN GIELGUD NOЁL COWARD and GERTRUDE LAWRENCE
Produced by Bennett Maxwell
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Bebe
Unknown:
Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Unknown:
Madame Second-Weber
Unknown:
Jean Crou
Unknown:
Henry Ainley
Unknown:
Max Miller
Unknown:
Dan Leno
Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Unknown:
Sir John Gielgud
Unknown:
Gertrude Lawrence
Produced By:
Bennett Maxwell

The second programme in a weekly series consists of songs by Debussy, mostly from the earlier part of his career Apparition (1884)
Proses lyriques, (1893)
De reve; De grève De tieurs; De soir
Fetes galantes, Vol. 1 (1892-3)
En sourdine; Fantoches Clair de lune
Fetes galantes, Vol. 2 (1904)
Les ingenus; Le faune Colloque sentimental
JENIFER EDDY (soprano)
ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Berlioz, Charvenlier, Faure, Debussy (April Cantelo. Viola Tunnarrd): February 14

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