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HELEN LUARD (Violoncello)
JEAN HAMILTON (Pianoforte)
BETHOVEN left five Sonatas for Violoncello and Pianoforte, two belonging to his early period, one in the middle of his career, and two quite lato works. This is the middle one, written when he was at the very, height of his powers, and before there had begun to be in his music anything of that sombre and mysterious order which makes such things as his last string quartets a little terrifying.
This Sonata is throughout melodious and good-humoured. The first movement begins with the violoncello playing the first tune alone. The pianoforte takes it up and it is concisely set forth. The second principal theme is a double one, in which the two melodies are interchanged between the instruments ; one is a series of scales and the ether a slower moving tune, beginning, as many of the world'.-; great tunes do, with the notes of tho common chord.
Tho Scherzo, which comes next, is meant, like many of Beethoven's, to bo repeated twice, so that the first part is heard throe times, and the alternative section, the Trio, twice. Tho featureof the first part is the way in which the instruments play the fhemo one a note behind the other.
There is a very short, slow movement which is really no more than an introduction to the bustling and light-hearted last movement.

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Luard
Pianoforte:
Jean Hamilton

pOULTRY-KEEPING on a small scale is apt to lose a good deal of its appeal in winter, and to the ordinary amateur nothing is more depressing than the sight of four bedraggled hens in a dripping backyard on a foggy day. Mr. W. Powell Owen is, however, an expert, and in the series of talks, of which this evening's is the first, he will-give some very valuable advice as to how to make backyard poultry-farming enjoyable and profitable all through the year. and how to induce backyard fowls to yield winter eggs.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr. W. Powell Owen

An Operetta for Children
< By L. DU GARDE PEACH
With Music by VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON
Persons :
The King
The Princess
Johann (the Charcoal Burner's Son)
The Ogre
The Dragon
The Army
The Singers are: OLIVE GROVES JOHN THORNE
DALE SMITH
SAMUEL DYSON
The Actors are:
ARTHUR WYNN
R. DE ROHAN C.E .HODGES
JULIAN HERBAGE
LEONARD THOMPSON
ALAN HOWLAND
JOAN GUMMER
The Orchestra consists of B. WALTON O'DONNELL
VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON and a Pianofortco
This Operetta, when performed during the Children's Hour, mado an appeal to children of all ages up to ninety-seven. Accordingly, it is now being presented in the evening for the benefit of those children who are not home from the office before five-fifteen.

Contributors

Unknown:
L. du Garde Peach
Music By:
Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Unknown:
Olive Groves
Unknown:
John Thorne
Unknown:
Dale Smith
Unknown:
Samuel Dyson
Unknown:
Arthur Wynn
Unknown:
R. de Rohan
Unknown:
C.E .Hodges
Unknown:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Leonard Thompson
Unknown:
Alan Howland
Unknown:
Joan Gummer
Unknown:
B. Walton O'Donnell
Unknown:
Victor Hely-Hutchinson

THE end of the fourth day of the year may seem rathere late to talk about such notoriously transient (not to say embarrassed) phantoms as New Year resolutions. But those grim and steadafst people who have not yet fallen from grace will bo immensely heartened by Captain Harry Graham 's talk, and the back-sliders may even be encouraged to start again.

Contributors

Unknown:
Captain Harry Graham

2LO London and 5XX Daventry

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