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The old oak tree, for years the village meeting-place and notice board, has to be cut down because it has become a traffic hazard.
Commentary written by Desmond Hawkins and spoken by Paul Rogers.
From the West
(First shown on BBC-1)

Contributors

Writer:
Desmond Hawkins
Narrator:
Paul Rogers
Music composed by:
Sidney Sager
Producer:
Christopher Parsons

A new documentary from the National Film Board of Canada in which the eminent composer is seen conducting the rehearsals and recording of his Symphony of Psalms.
Those taking part include: Nicolas Nabokov, Mrs. Vera Stravinsky, Robert Craft, Julian Bream and the C.B.C. Symphony Orchestra
See also 9.0 p.m. and page 28

Contributors

Subject/conductor:
[Igor] Stravinsky
Speaker:
Nicolas Nabokov
Speaker:
Vera Stravinsky
Speaker:
Robert Craft
Musician:
Julian Bream
Musicians:
The C.B.C. Symphony Orchestra
Producer/director:
Wolf Koenig
Director:
Roman Kroitor

Direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London the second part of tonight's concert in which Igor Stravinsky conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra (Leader, Hugh Bean)

Variations in Memory of Aldous Huxley - first performance in Europe; played twice

Suite: The Firebird (1945 version)

Introduced by Richard Baker.

See page 28
(Also broadcast in the Third Programme)

Concert broadcast by arrangement with Robert Paterson and John Heyman

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Baker
Musicians:
The New Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Hugh Bean
Conductor:
Igor Stravinsky
Directed for television by:
Brian Large

BBC Two England

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