(London only)
11.0 Gramophone Records
(Daventry)
MARIE FISHER (Contralto) EDWARD NICHOL (Tenor).
Lucy WESTON (Violin)
ALICE LEES (Harp)
Played by REGINALD FOORT
Relayed from THE REGENT CINEMA,
BOURNEMOUTH
S.B. from Bournemouth
. Mr. A. LLOYD JAMES : 'Speech and Language
From WESTMINSTER ABBEY
MURIEL STEVENS (Soprano) DAVID OPENSHAW (Baritone)
THE LONDON ENSEMBLE QUINTET
West Country Songs sung by FREDERICK Chester , who will also tell his own story,
' Julia goes to Church'
West Country Dances, played by The
OLOF SEXTET
Mr. V. C. CLINTON BADDELEY: Reading from
' Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens from Chapter iv
WEATHER FORECAST, FIRST GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN
BACH TOCCATAS and FUGUES
Played by JAMES CMNG (Pianoforte)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Prelude and Fugue and Allegro in E Flat
Louis Pecskai (Solo Violin)
THE WIRELESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Leader, S. KNEALE KELLEY )
Conducted by Sir LANDON RONALD
Once a year in Leipzig the proceeds of a special performance of opera or play are devoted to the pension fund of the orchestra. In 1839 Victor Hugo 's play Ruy Bias was selected, and Mendelssohn was asked to write an overture and incidental music for the occasion. He disliked the play wholly, and at first he refused, but the object for which it was being given appealed to him so much that he relented. By then only a few days were left for the task, and it is on record that the overture was conceived and completed, ready for the band parts to be copied, between a Tuesday evening and the following Friday morning. A chorus for women's voices was also completed during these same days. Mendelssohn mentions both works in a letter to his mother, referring to this overture as 'The Overture to the Pension Fund.'
There are four main themes, one which begins with only a few bars of solemn introduction, and follows with an energetic figure of tragic import, a soaring melody mainly in quavers, a more suave and gracious tune, and last a vigorous stirring theme suggesting pomp and chivalry.
WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL News BULLETIN ; Local News; (Daventry only) Shipping Forecast; Stock Exchange Summary
NELLIE O'LIST (Entertainer)
ERNEST SEFTON and BETTY LE BROCK (in a Pot Pourri of Much Ado About
Nothing)
PETER BERNARD (in Comedy Songs and Stories)
ANGELA MAUDE (Comedienne)
IVAN TARTAKOFF (Tenor)
JACK PAYNE and his B.B.C. DANCE
ORCHESTRA and AN ITEM from
THE PALLADIUM
JACK PAYNE and his B.C.C. DANCE
ORCHESTRA