from swing to classics
Records of ' The Foursome'
Recording of the BBC Revue Orchestra (conductor. Alan Crooks), broadcast in the Home Service at 10.30 a.m. on March 1
News Summary
Today's choice of records is by Harry Middleton
Conductor, Harry Heyes
News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas
from symphonies, on gramophone records
Schumann: (No 1. in B flat)
(' Spring
Dvorak: (No. 1, in D.) Bruckner: (No. 7. in E)
Mahler: Rondo burleske (No. 9. in D)
Recorded in America, and heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network
Richard Crean and his Orchestra.
Repeat of last night's recorded broadcast
Conductor. Rae Jenkins. with Eveline Stevenson (soprano)
Issy Bonn and Matt Heft
Louis Levy and his Gaumont-British Studio Orchestra, with Beryl Davis , Benny Lee. Jack Cooper , and the Georgettes. Introduced by Peter Madden. Produced by Elisabeth Tyson.
Back to the thirties, with Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra.
Close-ups from the war-fronts of the world
Conductor. Guy Warrack. Wilfred Senior (piano)
Part 1
Weekly commentary on World Affairs
Conductor, 'Guy Warrack
Part 2
' The Foundations of Jazz 1-Piano Ragtime: written by Charles Chilton and Charles Wilford. and illustrated with gramophone records. Piano illustrations by Pat Dodd
Conducted by Lieut. D. A. Pope. Director of Music. Coldstream Guards
and reports from the battlefronts
Records chosen for themselves British Forces overseas
(Air Force Edition)
A Home Forces entertainment for all serving afloat or overseas. You are invited to the Cafe de Naafi to hear a potted version of ' All Clear —one of the brightest Service shows now touring Britain. All members of the cast and orchestra are serving with the R.C.A.F. Also Double or Quits' cash quiz
Programme produced, in collaboration with the Entertainment Branch of the Royal Canadian Air Force, by David Manderson.
followed at 8.10 by Home News from Canada cabled from the CBC News Roome
read at dictation speed
The Combined Stoll Theatres Orchestra, with Edna Hatzfeld and Mark Strong. followed by News Headlines
with his Orchestra, and artists followed at 9.58 by News Headlines
Half-hour of music chosen by a member of the Forces overseas: today, Telegraphist G. Charles. R.N., in Iraq.
John Blore and his Orchestra
