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MAY BLYTH (Soprano)
NIKOLAI NADEJIN (Pass)
JESSIE CORMACK (Pianoforte)
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA, conducted by JonN ANSELL
A IDA has stolen out to meet her lover, Radames, by the banks of the Nile. She sings of her dear native moonlit land from which she is parted, and wonders if she is to see her lover for the last time.

March, ' The Trumpet Call' - Fuclk
Overture, ' ' Tantalusqualen ' (The Torments of Tantaltfs) - Suppé
MAY BLYTH Nile Air (' Aida ') - Verdi
ORCHESTRA Suite, ' In a Fairy Realm ' - Ketelbey
NIKOLAI NADEJIN I have attained supreme power (' Boris Godounov ) - Moussorgsky
Song of the Flea - Moussorgsky
4.5 ORCHESTRA Selection from ' Carmen ' - Bizet, arr. De Groot
JESSIE CORMACK The Island Spell - Ireland
Tambourin - Benjamin
Windmills - Moeran
Second Pierrot Piece - Cyril Scott
ORCHESTRA Tho Londonderry Air - arr. O'Connor-Morris
Country Dance Tune, ' The Irish Washerwoman ' - Sowerby
Overture, ' A Night in Granada ' - Conrad Kreutzer
May BLYTH Songs my Mother taught me - Dvorak
If thou wert blind - Noel Johnson
Lullaby - Sandford
You - Crosse
ORCHESTRA Waltz, Spring Songs ' - ,Gung'l
5.0 NIKOLAI NADEJIN Love went a-riding - Frank Bridge
When the King went forth to War - Koeneman
A vucchella (Neapolitan) - Tosti
ORCHESTRA Children's Suite - Lardelli
Pot-Pourri, ' Melodious Memories ' - Finck

Sung by Helen Henschel (Soprano)
Die Vogel (The Bird)
Mignon's Song: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (Only the longing heart knows)
Der Wachtelschlag (The Quail Cry)
Im Abendroth (At Sunset)
Der Musensohn (The Son of the Muses)

In Die Vogel the voice suggests the free swoop and curve of the bird, and contrasts its care-free life with the anxieties and narrowing cares of men.
Mignon's Song, from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, is well known in settings by various composers, Tchaikovsky's being the most commonly sung of all. 'Only the longing heart can know my grief, far from the loved one,' is its burden.
In Der Wachtelschlag the call of the quail is fancifully likened to a voice crying 'Fear God,' 'Love God.' The listener is enjoined, as he surveys the rich fruits of the earth, to 'Praise God' and, whenever he stands in terror, to 'Pray to God.' Always he is to 'Trust in God,' who ever holds him in His care.
Im Abendroth is an evening meditation on the loveliness of God's world, that calms the soul and fills it with the assurance of His presence.
Der Musensohn is a lively lad who pipes for any who will hearken.

ELSIE GRIFFIN (Soprano)
KENDALL TAYLOR (Pianoforte) THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL

Overture to ' The Bohemian Girl - Balfe
Elsie Griffin Bid mo discourse - Bishop
Over the Sea - Martin Shaw
Elf and Fairy - Densmore
8.2 BAND Suite, ' From the South ' - Nicodé Legend from La Provence ; Moorish Dance Song ; In the Tavern
KENDALL TAYLOR First Movement Sonata, Op. 5 - Brahms
Prelude in B Flat Minor - Chopin
Prelude in E Flat, Op. 23 - Rachmaninov
Shenandoah - arr. H. Rutland
Shepherd's Hey - Grainger
8.30 BAND Selection from ' Herodias ' Massenet ELSIE GRIFFIN Night Wind - Farley
Of a' the Airts - arr. Hadow
A Red, Red Rose - arr. Hadow
BAND Four Dances from ' The Rebel Maid ' - Montague Phillips Jig ; Gavotte ; Graceful Dance ; Villagers' Dance

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