IN the preceding talks in the series on Our
Boys and Girls,' Mr. F. M. Earle has dealt with the psychological factors to be considered in choosing careers for one's children. The practical side remains to be considered, and this afternoon Mr. Kelly, who is Vice Chairman of tho London Advisory Council for Juvenile Employment, will start by discussing suitable openings for boys leaving school at fourteen.

Kathleen Vincent (Soprano)
Kathleen Jacobs (Violoncello)
John Edwards (Pianoforte)

2.0 2.25 (Daventry only) Experimental Transmission of Still Pictures by the Fultograph Process

Mr. A. Lloyd JAMES , ' Speech and Language '

Jean Nolan (Soprano)
Herbert de Leon (Baritone)
Harold Fairhurst (Violin)
Rene Cook (Pianoforte)

Looking Backward, wherein, with the aid of our own original Time Machine, we return to the Sixteenth Century. (Mrs. Buggins comes, tool)

The Rev. Eric SOUTHAM (Vicar of St.
James's Church, Bournemouth) : ' Teach us to Pray- VI, When ye pray say, " Lead us not into temptation." S.B. from Bournemouth

. BRAHMS' SONGS
Sung by MARK RAPHAEL (Baritone)

This evening Dr. Hart will explain the meaning of 'lift' - the force opposed by gravity, which keeps the machine in the air - and 'drag,' which is overcome by the propeller thrust. He will discuss the distinction between active and passive drag, how drag is affected by speed, how it influences the design of the machine, and the importance of the lift-drag ratio.

From the Free Trade Hall, Manchester
S.B. from Manchester
The Halle Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty
Alfred Barker (Violin)

Unless an orchestra plays with real zest and gusto, it cannot hope to interest its audience.

Within limits there is more real pleasure in hearing a pretty bad orchestra which is enjoying itself, than a first-rate one which is bored. But when a team of front-rank players, one which really is a team and not a meeting, plays, under an inspired conductor, as though music were the one thing in the world which mattered, then the listener enjoys the best that art can offer him. That is one vital factor in the success of the Halle and Sir Hamilton Harty.

But, in a way of its own, this Pension Fund Concert is a real festivity for the orchestra, an evening with something of the 'last day of term' atmosphere about it, in which conductor, players, and audience all may share. And the programme is an almost wholly joyous one. From the irresistible gaiety of Figaro to the Mastersingers' pomp and dignity, the only hints of gloom or, grieving are the despairing end of Don Juan richly-earned, poor, crazy mortal that he was and the Lament of his own which the orchestra's principal violoncellist plays. The violoncello, to be sure, enjoys making a luxury of grief, and in this case proposes to banish it immediately with light-hearted notes of Sir Hamilton's. Several of the other principals have good innings: the leader, the harpist, the players of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn are all to be heard in music which takes the audience more happily into their confidence than the usual orchestral programme may do.

Still more in holiday mood is a duet for two double basses.
Butt though he is of many orchestral jests, even the double-bass, can produce real music, and a duet for two could be either melodious or mirth-provoking at the will of the composer and the players. Bottesini, the composer of this piece, was, of course, a regular wizard of the double-bass, who could win from his instrument almost violin-like effects.

Tonight's programme includes, besides, such ever-green favourite music as the Oberon Overture, two Brahms Hungarian Dances, and the three best-known numbers from Berlioz' Faust - all music which the orchestra could play without opening the band parts on the desks, which Sir Hamilton could write out again if the scores were lost. And he himself will play all the pianoforte parts and accompaniments; how well he does that cannot be said in our prosaic tongue, nor, indeed, in any terms of moderate language.
Let us borrow a phrase from William Byrd, and say that Sir Hamilton Harty and the Halle Orchestra are 'At Home' this evening 'to all such as delight in Musicke.'

ORCHESTRA Overture, 'The Marriage of Figaro' - Mozart
ALFRED BARKER Chanson Meditation - Cottenet
Perpetuum Mobile - Novacek
ORCHESTRA Overture, 'Oberon' - Weber
Gavotte and Tarantelle (For Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Pianoforte) - Fuhrmeister
Don Juan - Strauss

Reading from the London Studicr

(Continued)

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