City of Coventry Band
Conductor, Frank Robinson
and forecast for farmers and shipping
A gramophone miscellany
Bible reading on the work of the Spirit, with comment by the Rev. R. T. Brooks
' The Reproof of the Spirit '
and forecast for farmers and shipping
The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman
A midweek bulletin of food news
Compiled by Louise Davies
Speaker, Louise Davies
Jean Buck (soprano)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Vivian Joseph (cello)
Margaret Chamberlain (piano)
STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' The Wooden Horse.' Adapted by Christine Dudley from the book by Eric Williams.
Father, we praise thee (BBC Hymn
Book 405)
New Every Morning, page 54
Psalm 107, vv. 31-42
Acts 9, vv. 1-20
Thy mercy, Lord, Is in the heavens
(BBC Hymn Book 482)
Oscar Rabin and his Band
to the City of London
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
let's JOIN IN. ' Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby ': a radio version
2.20 ADVENTURES IN MUSIC. Hiawatha's Wedding Feast ': second of three illustrated talks by Reginald Jacques. .
2.40 HISTORY 11. Cecil Sharp. ' The People's Songs and Dances.' Script by Jo Man-ton
Henley Royal Regatta
Commentary by John Snagge
The Lawn Tennis Championships
Latest results and commentary by Max Robertson and Rex Alston
From the All England Club,
Wimbledon
from Bristol Cathedral
Confession; Absolution; the Lord's
Prayer
Versicles and Responses (Bristol use) Psalms 147, 148. 149. 150
First Lesson: 1 Samuel 28. vv. 3-end Magnificat (Gibbons, Short Service)
Second Lesson: St. Matthew 5. w.
1-16
Nunc dimittis (Gibbons, Short Service) Creed
Lesser Litany and Responses (Bristol use)
Collects
Anthem: 0 for a closer walk
(Stanford)
Prayers and Grace
Organist and Master of the Choristers,
Clifford Harker
Further commentaries
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
(Leader, Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
Richard Strauss was always preoccupied with the problems of the conflicting claims of words and music in opera; and his last opera, Capriccio, dramatises this conflict in the persons of a poet, Olivier, and a musician, Flamand, who are rivals for the hand of the beautiful Countess Madeleine. In the opera-house the Prelude is played by a string sextet, and when the curtain rises it turns out to be a piece of music written by Flamand, which is being played on the stage and to which the Countess sits listening. Tonight it will be played by small string orchestra.
Delius's Fennimore and Gerda is also its composer's last opera. Based on the Danish writer Jacobsen's novel Niels Lyhne, it tells the story of the unhappy love between Niels and Fennimore. Towards the end of the opera the two lovers separate for ever; but two final scenes show Niels, three years afterwards, finding happiness in the love of a young girl called Gerda. The Intermezzo is made up of the orchestral preludes to these last two scenes.
Deryck Cooke
at the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
late weather forecast for land areas
