.THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND, conducted by Lieut. B. WALTON O'DONNELL. M.V.O., F.R.A.M., R.M.
ELLIS BURFORD
BERTRAM AYRTON
EDITH LAKE (Violoncello)
THE Opera, the second (and, as most people
T agree, the best) of eight such works by Smetana. turns on an old situation-a girl's loving one man in spite of her parents' choosing another as her husband; Of course, all comes right in the end. The plot is worked out in a gay spirit, and the Overture hits that off delightfully. The impact of its very first chords, and the rush of the scales, are typical of the general spirit of the Opera.
TCHAIKOVSKY himself explained that his
T Fourth Symphony has a 'programme.'
He brings into it Fate, representing by a recurring motif ' that inevitable force which checks our aspirations towards happiness,' as he puts it.
In the THIRD MOVEMENT he said, we have only capricious arabesques ... which come into a man's head when he has been drinking wine. ... Memory calls up the picture of a tipsy peasant and a street song. From afar come the sounds of a military band.'
Those listeners who have heard this Movement in its original (orchestral) form will remember that the String players pluck their strings with the finger, it will bo interesting to hear how the Movement is re-scored for a Wind Band, and also to note what happens to the Military Band imitation of the original.
The FOURTH MOVEMENT is one of Tchaikovsky's loudest and rowdiest. ' Go to the people,' said the Composer in explaining it. 'See how they can enjoy life and give themselves up entirely to festivity. A rustic holiday is depicted.' Near the end of the Movement wo hear the declamatory motif of Fate, menacingly thundered out.

THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA, conducted .by JOHN ANSELL

TIME SIGNAL FROM GREENWICH,

Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues played through consecutively at this hour daily throughout the month.

THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN ANSELL
TOPLISS GREEN
ORCHESTRA
Overture to the Ball
Masquerade, ' The Merchant of Venice ' March from ' Henry VIII.' Overture to ' 'Iolanthe '
IN The Merchant of Venice a Masque is held outside tho house of Shylock. the Jew.
The dancing reaches a great pitch of excitement, and when tho revelry is at its highest. Shylock's daughter, Jessica, escapes with herlover, Lorenzo.
About thirty years ago, Henry Irving produced, on a grand scale, the Shakespearean play, Henry VIII. Sullivan wrote the incidental music, which immediately became very popular.
TOPLISS GREEN
Woo Thou Thy Snowflake (Ivanhoe) Ho, Jolly Jenkin (Ivanhoe)

Sung by HELEN HENSCHEL
HENRI DUPARC , born in 1848, was one of tho best pupils of Franck. Ill-health caused his output of music to bo very small. His songs, of which there are loss than a score (nil written in his twenties) are his most distingushed work.
CHAUSSON (1855-1899) also became a pupil of Franck. He had a period with Massenet first, but the lighter-minded and more formal style of that Composer were much less congenial to him than the serious aims and more vigorous style of Franck. Chausson was not dependent on his art, as he had considerable means, but ho gave himself whole-heartedly to his study and creative work. Those who knew him best (such as, for instance, Vincent d'Indy, *his fellow pupil under Franck) assert that a great development in his genius might have been expected had not his life come to a sudden end in early middle life, through a cycling accident.
AUBERT (born 1877) has written, besides songs.
a lyric fairy play, The Blue Forest, and works for Piano and for Orchestra.
DEBUSSY'S many settings of Verlaine a e notable. Mandoline, from the Fêtes Galantes, is the first of these. It was written in 1880, when the Composer was eighteen.

LESLYE ELLIOTT and his DANCE BAND