THE CLOISTER SINGERS and THOMAS MARSHALL
(Pianoforte)
Piano Solos by Hilda Dederich. Caraway Cake (Mabel Marlowe). The New Zoo, by L.G.M. of the Daily Mail.
MR. PONTING is perhaps best known as the photographer who accompanied Scott's famous Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13, and recorded that historic feat in his well-known book, 'The Great White South.' He has, however, led an adventurous life in many parts of the globe, and his knowledge of Japan, the subject of his Talk to-night, was gained during three years of travel there, and a period of service as a war correspondent with the First Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese War. He has published several books on Japan, including ' In Lotus Land,' the beautiful camera illustrations to which aroused general admiration when the book appeared.
BACH'S 48 PRELUDES AND FUGUES played through consecutively at this hour daily throughout the month
MR. S. P. B. MAIS is now best known as a novelist, but he has many other distinctions to his credit. In the course of a varied career he has been an athletic and cross-country Blue at Oxford, a schoolmaster at Rossall, Sherborne and Tonbridge, a literary and dramatic critic, and a Lecturer in Literature.
THE RAMBLERS (Harmonised Syncopation) BROMLEY CARTER (Entertainer)
RELAYED FROM NORWICH CATHEDRAL
NORWICH CATHEDRAL NAVE CHOIR
(Augmented to 150 Voices)
The NORWICH MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA
Soloists :
DOROTHY NORTON (Soprano). EVELYN AITKEN
(Soprano). A. J. WILLINK (Tenor)
Principal First Violin, EDMUND WEEKS At the Organ, E. U. COOMBS
Conductor, R. J. MADDERN WILLIAMS
THIS ' Symphonic Cantata ' was fully annotated recently. It will therefore suffice now to say that it was written in 1839-40 for the celebration of the fourth centenary of Gutenberg's invention of printing.
It Consists of three Movements of a Symphony, followed by ten vocal numbers-Solos and Duets for Sopranos and Tenor, and Choruses.
The melody with which the work opens is used as a kind of ' leading theme,' recurring both in the first two Movements of the Symphony and in the opening aid closing Choruses.
The FIRST MOVEMENT, brilliant and vigorous, has fine energy and breadth.
The SECOND MOVEMENT is based upon two
Main Tunes, one in a minor key and the other a major key ' chorale ' or hymn-tune, the lines of which are connected by the ' leading theme ' and by bits of the Movement's First Main Time.
The THIRD MOVEMENT begins quietly; becomes more restless, and finally leads into the Opening Chorus of the vocal part of the work-' All men, all things, all that have life and breath, sing to the Lord.'
The succeeding numbers are as follows :—
TENOR RECITATIVE, ' Sing ye praise, all ye redeemed ... from a deep affliction,' followed by AIR, ' He counteth all your sorrows.'
CHORUS, ' All ye that cried unto the Lord.'-
DUET FOR Two SOPRANOS, with CHORUS, ' I waited for the Lord..... 0 blessed are they that hope and trust in the Lord.'
TENOR AIR, The sorrows of death had closed all around me ... ; but said the Lord, " Come, arise from the dead ... I bring thee salvation." '
CHORUS, ' The night is departing..... Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us gird on the armour of light.'
CHORALE, Let all men praise the Lord.'
SOPRANO AND TENOR DUET, ' My song shall bo alway Thy mercy.'
FINAL CHORUS, ' Ye nations, offer to the Lord glory and might..... All that hath life and breath sing to the Lord.'
Interpreted by MARK RAPHAEL
(By kind permission of Col. Commandant R. C.
Temple, C.B., O.B.E., R.M.)
Conducted by Lieut. WALTON O'DONNELL ,
M.V.O., F.R.A.M., R.M.
(Relayed from Dover)
Symphonic Poem, Dance Macabre '
(Synopsis : The clock strikes midnight-King Death tunes up his fiddle-commences a jig-phantoms appear and glide through the trees -the dancers increase their efforts and a pitch of frenzy is readhed—a sudden silence—hist ! the cock crows-down into the tombs again-rest)
