West Calder Public Band Conduotor, Charles Telfer
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Australia v. England
A report on the fifth day's play
Directed by Harold C. Gee
' The Inner Resources of a Christian Man '
3 — ‘ The Unity of the Spirit '
Reading with comment from Ephesians 4, vv. 1-6 by the Rev. Eric Saxon
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Australia v. England
Summary of the fifth day's play by E. W . Swanton , cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
From the cricket ground at Melbourne
by Mrs. Arthur Webb
(BBC recording)
The Melachrino Strings
Conducted by George Metachrino
John Wynton (tenor)
Natalie Karp (piano)
by Joseph Harsch
(Lasit Monday's recorded broadcast)
MUSIC AND MOVEMENT I, by Marjorie Eele
10.5 NEWS COMMENTARY
Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem (A. and M. 302)
New Every Morning, page 29
Psalm 57 (Broadcast Psalter)
St. Mark 14. vv. 27-42
Jerusalem the golden (A. and M. 228: S.P. 198)
Bill Hawkins and Ms Band
11.40 FRENCH FOR SIXTH FORMS.
' La Dame de Bronze et Ie Monsieur de Cristal ': comédie en un acte d'Henri Duvernois, interpretee par les comédiens de la Compagnie Grenier-Hussenot
A record programme presented by Kenneth Kendall
and forecast for farmers and shipping
(piano) on gramophone recorda
A West-Country comedy by Celadon August
Produced by Owen Reed
from Bedminster, Bristol
conducted by John G. Williams
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
This time is reserved each week for a talk by a distinguished visitor from overseas or a British resident returning to this country from abroad
Part 1
BBC Women's Chorus (Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
BBC Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1 at 8.0
Music for the King's Sackbuts and Cornets...Matthew Locke
The Planets...Holst
Mars: The Bringer of War
Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity
Venus: The Bringer of Peace
Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age
Mercury: The Winged Messenger
Uranus: The Magician
Neptune: The Mystic
Part 2 at 9.15
Symphony No. 4, in F minor...Tchaikovsky
Matthew Locke, who is mentioned in Pepys' diary, was born about 1630 and died in 1677. He was a choir boy at Exeter Cathedral; he then went to London and (as Roger North put it) 'conformed at last to the modes of his time, and fell into the theatrical way - writing, with Christopher Gibbons, the masque Cupid and Death and part of the music for Davenant's Siege of Rhodes. In June 1660 he was appointed 'composer in the private musick' of Charles II, and on April 22, 1661, the day before the Coronation, Locke's music 'for ye king's sagbutts and cornett,' was played during the royal progress from the Tower of London to Whitehall. Tonight the music is played by trumpets and trombones (the latter instruments being the modern equivalent of sackbuts).
It was Sir Adrian Boult who, in the words of the composer 'first caused The Planets to shine in public, and earned the gratitude of Gustav Holst.' This huge suite of seven movements, designed for a very large orchestra, owed its origin to Holst's interest in astrology; but its originality and splendour were due to his searching imagination and first-hand knowledge of orchestral effect Nothing remotely like The Planets had appeared in British music before Its impact was direct and inescapable: it owed. moreover, practically nothing to nineteenth-century romanticism.
It must have been a wonderful occasion, that Sunday morning in September 1918, when The Planets first swam into the ken of a group of Holst's friends gathered together in Queen's Hall. The performance was arranged as a 'parting present' from Balfour Gardiner, before Holst left for Salonika to organise musical activities among the troops in the Near East. (Harold Rutland)
