and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Alice Faye, the film star, singing on gramophone records
Exercises for men
A thought for today
Some details about today's programmes
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Ambrose Heath
Leader, Laurance Turner Conductor, Gideon Fagan
Introductory music: Air from Berenice (Handel)
Order of Service
Theme: Thy will be done
Introductory talk
Forth in thy name, 0 Lord, I go
(A. and M. 8, omitting v. 2; S.P. 29, omitting v. 2; Rv. C.H. 651, omitting v. 2. Tune: Angels' song)
Prayers
Anthem: Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round Of circling planets singing on their way (S.P. 485, omitting v. 2)
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
Soldiers of the Cross, arise (A. and M. 588; S.P. 642; Rv. C.H. 341. Tune: Crucis milites)
Blessing
Closing music
Records of duettists in song and rhythm
at the theatre organ
News commentary and interlude
from p. 93 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 32 of ' Each Returning Day'
played by Wilfrid Senior
by a. doctor
11.0 Music and movement for infants
Ann Driver
11.20 Speech training for Scottish schools
Anne H. McAllister , D.Sc.
11.40 Talks for sixth forms
Norway
G. M. Gathome Hardy
A selection of brand-new numbers sung by Marjorie Westbury and Ronald Bristol with Jack Wilson and Harry Engleman at two pianos
String quartet in E flat (K.428) played by Whinyates String Quartet-Seymour Whinyates (violin) ; Dorothy Everitt (violin) ; Veronica Gotch (viola) ;
Helen Just (cello)
at the theatre organ
Talks about what we get from the land and the men and women who produce it
From a West-Country concert hall
Harriet Cohen (solo piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Constant Lambert
2.0 Travel talks
Latin-America
5-Wealth from the desert (Chile)
0. H. Bonham Carter
2.15 Interval music
2.20 ' If I were British'
5-At the Town Council by David Scott Daniell
2.40 Orchestral concert series by Ronald Biggs
5-Concert lesson: Grieg's Piano
Concerto (first movement)
played by BBC Military Band
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
with his Orchestra
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Chaliapin, and Ivor Newton , who accompanied him at a great number of his concerts both in the British Isles and abroad, is choosing some of his most characteristic records to play to you
Harold Hobson
Variety
From a Northern music-hall
Sgwrs am y Barnwr Bryn Roberts gan E. Morgan Humphreys
(A talk in Welsh)
5.20 Our serial story
' Winter holiday ', Part 4 by Arthur Ransome , followed by ' Records by request'
A programme intended to link evacuated children and their parents
5.55 Children's Hour Epilogue
followed by National and Regional announcements
A national magazine dealing with some of the things which are teing thought, said, and done all over
Britain today
Introduced by Peter Fetles
The mixed choir
Dr. Harvey Grace
' Classical and contemporary theatre A discussion between Val Gielgud and Frank O'Connor , wKh passages and scenes acted in illustration
A flight to adventure in six parts
Script by Phillip Leaver and Ernest
Dudley
Lyrics by James Dyrenfor *
Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith
The programme planned with the technical co-operation of British
Overseas Airways Corporation
Part 2
' Lights up in Lisbon '
Characters :
Amanda Linden ,
Squadron-Leader Bill Carey , R.A.A.F., Mrs. Agatha
Pitt-Rumble, Mike Stanton ,
Hans Weidmann , Ernst Deutlich ,
Senor Quintero , of the Lisbon police, etc.
Cast includes :
Ivan Brandt , Athene Seyler ,
Leslie Perrins , Hugh Morton , Clifford Bean
Phillip Leaver , Jacques Brown ,
Helen Clare , and Ian Sadler
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
Produced by Vernon Harris
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Orchestra (Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by W. K. Stanton
Stiles-Allen (soprano) ; Elsie Suddaby
(soprano) ; Anne Wood (contralto);
Jan van der Gucht (tenor) ;
William Parsons (bass); Berkeley Mason
(organ)
Bach
BERKELEY MASON Fantasia in G
STILES-ALLEN, ELSIE SUDDABY,
ANNE WOOD , JAN VAN DER GUCHT,
WILLIAM PARSONS , CHORUS, AND ORCHESTRA
Magnificat
1 Chorus: Magnificat anima mea ;
2Aria: Et exultavit spiritus meus ;
3 Aria: Quiarespexithumilitatem;
4 Chorus: Omnes generations ;
5 Aria: Quia fecit mihi magna;
6 Duet: Et misericordia ; /
Chorus: Fecit potentiam ; 8 Aria:
Deposuit potentes; 9 Aria: Esurientes implevit boms; 10 Trio.
Suscepit Israel; 11 Chorus: Sicut locutus est; 12 Chorus: Gloria
Its Latin text notwithstanding,
Bach's ' 'Magnificat' was composed for his own Lutheran church at
Leipzig, probably for the service on the evening of Christmas Day 1723.
He is known to have composed two settings of the same text but the other is apparently lost. It may be that in his time the scene of the Manger, with Joseph, Mary, and the Infant Jesus, was actually represented in the church, as it still is in many parts of the world, and that Bach's ' Magnificat' was thus in a sense incidental music.
Definite time-limits must have been set him, because the ' Magnificat ' is short and concise, though losing nothing, by that. It is a splendid example of his church music. The opening chorus for instance is built up almost throughout on one of his exhilarating themes that express joy.
played by BBC Salon Orchestra
Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater
Overture: The Gypsy Baron Perpetuum mobile
Tales from the Vienna woods Tic-Tac polka
One day when we were young Czardas (Ritter Pasman )
and his Orchestra
by Karel Bendl sung by Herbert Heyner (baritone)
I am a free-born Romany
One old song my mother taught me Gypsy boy
A plaintive dirge
When the Gypsy heareth music One pure drop of water Oh my fair lost rosebud
Sweet is our farewell song Dulcimer, let me play thee
