Daventry only) ;
Daventry only
by EDGAR T. COOK
Relayed from Southwark Cathedral
; ALPHONSE DU CLOS and his
ORCHESTRA
From the Hotel Cecil
LOUIS LEVY'S ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ARNOLD EAGLE From the Shepherd's Bush
Pavilion
* Robin Hood meets Maid Marian '-a Play by Amice Macdonnell , with Incidental
Music by the GERSHOM PARKlNGTON
QUINTET
Read by ROBERT HARRIS
; WEATHER FORECAST, FIRST GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN
= Pianoforte Duets by BEETHOVEN BRAHMS, and SCHUMAN
Played by VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON and LESLIE HEWARD
FROM his island of Jethou, Mr. Compton Mackenzie has, as it were, as good a view of the Channel Islands as a man might have. Fortunate, indeed, he is, to be able to enjoy these happy islands from the inside instead of, as with us poor occasional holiday-makers, from the outside. Who has not wished, when spring first comes, to be free to go where those fields are full of flowers and where already it is warm ? But it is the people who live in the Channel Islands of whom, also, Mr. Mackenzie will be able to tell us. And no one who has heard any of his broadcast talks will need reminding of the charm with which, by virtue of his retentive memory and 'sensitive style, he can invest his words over the microphone.
EDA KERSEY (Violin)
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOHN ANSELL
WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN
' Music and the Ordinary Listener
(Series VIII), Handel at the Harpsichord'
(Daventry only)
Shipping Forecast and Fat Stock Prices
John Ireland (Pianoforte)
The Virtuoso String Quartet: Marjorie Hayward (Violin); Edwin Virgo (Violin); Raymond Jeremy (Viola); Cedric Sharpe (Violoncello)
It is an interesting measure of the rapid march of music in our time, that Ravel - regarded less than a generation ago as the arch-apostle in France of modern impressionism - is now accepted as the foremost representative there of the older order, upholding the tradition which can be logically traced from the classics through Saint-Saens and Faure.
This Quartet, dedicated 'to his dear Master, Faure,' is an early work; revised by Ravel, it appeared in its present form in 1910. The chief difficulty which it presents to the ordinary listener is the sense it is apt to give him of being fragmentary; only after repeated hearings does its conciseness become clear. The first movement, however, is fairly easy to follow, and its two main tunes, the first appearing at the beginning on the first violin, and the second, also on the first violin a little later, are quite straightforward melodies which are easily recognized throughout the movement. The second begins with a very quick figure which gives place soon to a little fragment of song-like tune on the first violin, and though the time and the mood change frequently, these two, as well as another melody broadly played by the first violin, will be heard to have the chief say in it. The third movement is for the most part in a very slow time, although it, too, changes here and there to a livelier mood. The melody which listeners will find it easiest to keep in mind is one which the viola plays at the beginning of the movement. The last movement begins stormily, and soon there is a calmer section with a broad melody in which all the instruments share. On alternations of these two the short movement is made up.
JACK HYLTON 'S AMBASSADOR CLUB BAND, directed by RAY STARITA, from the AMBASSADOR CLUB
