SHERIDAN RUSSELL (Violoncello) ADELINA DE LARA (Pianoforte)

by Albert Howe, Organist and Director of the Choir, St. Augustine's, Kilburn, N.W.

Relayed from St. Mary-le-Bow Church

By the HOTEL METROPOLE ORCHESTRA
Leader. A. MANTOVAKI, from the Hotel Metropole

Described by GEOFFREY GILBEY , assisted by Mr. H. W. HOBBISS
Relayed from Aintree
S.B. from Liverpool .

Arranged by the PEOPLE'S CONCERT SOCIETY in co-operation with THE B.B.C.
Sixth Concert of Eight Series
Relayed from The Hammersmith Town Hall THE PEOPLE'S CONCERT SOCIETY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES WOODHOUSE Principal Violin.: GEORGE STRATTON

Fine Feathers : Vocal ' Trimmings,' by OLIVE GROVES
The Story of ' 'Cap.o'-Rushes' The Grim History of ' The Magic Boots,' as devised and narrated by the WICKED UNCLE

From the Prince of Wales Play-house, Lewisham

BACH'S SONATAS FOR VIOLA DA GAMBA AND
CEMBALO
Played by HOWARD Bliss (Violoncello) and GORDON BRYAN (Pianoforte)
Sonata. No. 3 in G Minor, First Movement and Eleventh Chamber Concerto, Last Movement played by GORDON BRYAN

Relayed from the People's Palace
WALTER WIDDOP (Tenor)
The NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, S. KNEALE KELLEY
Conducted by THE Composer
ORCHESTRA
Overture, ' Froissart '
THE Overture, named after the great fourteenth-century chronicler, has as motto the words of Keats : —
' When Chivalry
Lifted up her lance on high.'
The theme of chivalry as the basis for a work came into the Composer's mind through the scene in Scott's ' Old Mortality' in which Claverhouse tells of his enthusiasm for Froissart, who ' with true chivalrous feeling ... confines his beautiful expressions of sorrow to the death of the gallant and high-bred Knight; of whom it was a pity to see the fall, such was his loyalty to his king. pure faith to his religion, hardihood towards his enemy, and fidelity to his lady-love.' Introduction and Allegro for Solo String Quartet and String Orchestra. Op. 47
ELGAR, in this work, uses, with beautiful effect, the contrasts between a String Orchestra and a Quartet of Solo Strings-two Violins, Viola and 'Cello.
The Introduction hints at the various tunes with which the whole work is to be built. Towards its close the Welsh (or Welsh-like) time is gently played by the solo Viola. Agitation follows and quickly leads us into the impassioned Allegro.
8.25 WALTER WIDDOP and Orchestra
Scena from ' King Olaf '
8.32 ORCHESTRA
First ' Wand of Youth ' Suite Tone Poem ' Polonia '
AS a boy of twelve, Elgar wrote some music for a children's play. In 1907 he revived this and arranged it in two Suites for full orchestra. The First of these contains: (1) Overture; (2) Serenade ; (3) Minuet ; (4) Sun Dance ; (5) Fairy Pipers; (6) Fairies and Giants.
' DOLONIA ' was written during the first year
* of the war, as a tribute to Poland and with a dedication to Paderewski. It was first played at a concert at the Queen's Hall in aid of the Polish Victims' Relief Fund.
Most of the tunes used are Polish melodies, but an obvious exception is the typically Elgarian tune near the opening-majestic and noble (and marked in the score with Elgar's favourite temn of expression, nobilimente). Thero are also references to Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor and to Paderewski's Polish Fantasia.

(Continued)
ORCHESTRA
Overture, ' In the South'
Contrasts— The Gavotte, 1700-1900
IN THE SOUTH-ALASSIO is a musical record of impressions of Italy — more especially of ' a glorious afternoon in the Vale of Andora,' with snow-tipped mountains on the horizon, and the blue Mediterranean, and with thoughts of the strife and power of the old Roman civilization, suggested by the ruins at hand.
The tunes out of which In the South is constructed are all Elgar's own. One of them in the middle, a tune of pastoral feeling, has been spoken of as an Italian folk-time, but the Composer states that this is an error.
The Overture was first heard at the Covent Garden Elgar Festival of 1904.

Meditation and Scena from
' The Light of Life'

Second ' Wand of Youth ' Suite ' Pomp and Circumstance ' Marches, Kos. 2 and 4 THE Movements in this Second
Suite are as follows:-
March : The Little Bells ;
Moths and Butterflies ; (Dance) Fountain Dance ; The Tame Bear and The Wild Bears.

MURIEL GEORGE and ERNEST
BUTCHER
(Folk Songs and Duets).
ELSIE CARLISLE
(Syncopated Songs)