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11.0 THE MUSICAL TRAVELLER : ' The Traveller and the Sea '. The Traveller catches a glimpse of the sea, and thinks about some of the music it has inspired
11.20 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH : by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Yvonne Oberlin. ' Knock, ou Ie triomphe de la medecine ' (Julais Romain ). Acte 2, Scene 1
11.40 SENIOR GEOGRAPHY : Making the Americas : Latin America. ' Building a City ', by R. J. Baker

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean-Jacques OBErlin
Unknown:
Yvonne OBErlin.
Unknown:
Julais Romain
Unknown:
R. J. Baker

Recital of eighteenth-century Spanish music. Sophie Wyss (soprano), accompanied by Roberto Gerhard
Sophie Wyss , who was born in Switzerland, studied at the Conservatoire de Geneve. In her ten years of broadcasting she can claim to have brought to the microphone more new works than any other singer. She was the first to bring to the listening public many of the songs of such composers as Honegger, Milhaud, and Tailleferre. She* sings in six languages with perfect understanding and has an almost unlimited repertoire.
The Catalonian composer, Roberto Ger hard, was born in 1896 at Vails, in the province of Tarragona. From 1916-21 he studied under Felipe Pedrell , the founder of modern Spanish music, and later became a pupil of Schonberg. Roberto Gerhard has written a number of interesting works, including the Trio in A flat, the Violin Sonata, and the ballet Ariel, founded on Shakespeare's The Tempest, which was first performed at the Festival of the International Society for. Contemporary Music at Barcelona in 1936.

Contributors

Soprano:
Sophie Wyss
Accompanied By:
Roberto Gerhard
Unknown:
Sophie Wyss
Unknown:
Roberto Ger
Unknown:
Felipe Pedrell

2.0 NATURE STUDY : Insect Orchestras ', by J. M. Cowan
2.15 Interval music
2.20 PHYSICAL TRAINING (for use in classrooms) : by Edith Dowling
2.35 Interval music
2.40 SENIOR HISTORY : 1850-1942. Learning to know the Empire : ' Stories from our history that I learnt at school': 3-By a New Zealander, Jim Webster

Contributors

Unknown:
J. M. Cowan
Unknown:
Edith Dowling
Unknown:
Jim Webster

How new aircraft are tested in the air before delivery to the R.A.F. Test Pilot, Major Tommy Rose , D.F.C., in a Miles Master. Commentator, Stewart MacPherson and Wynford Vaughan Thomas. Special from an aerodrome and an aircraft factory somewhere in England

Contributors

Unknown:
Major Tommy Rose
Unknown:
Stewart MacPherson
Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas.

String Quartet in F played by the Hirsch Quartet
Ravel's Quartet in F is full of beautiful music imbued with a delicate strain of romantic feeling, and the first movement, particularly, is a model of conciseness and balance. A feeling of continuity is given to the whole work by thematic resemblances and quotations : the second theme of the quite original scherzo with its intriguing pizzicato effects is an offspring of the second theme of the first movement ; in the slow movement there is an echo of the first subject of the first movement ; and in the finale the second theme consists of two strains, one based on the first theme of the first subject and the other on the second theme. a

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