Relayed from the Houldsworth Hall
THE MANCHESTER CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CENTRE
Lucy PIERCE (Pianoforte) ; HARRY MORTIMER (Clarinet); EDITH ROBINSON (Violin); PHILIP WHITEWAY (Violin); MAURICE WARD (Viola);
CARL Fuchs (Violoncello).
Overture on Yiddish Themes for Pianoforte,
TOHN IRELAND'S Chamber Music is by many considered his most distinctive work. This Sonata is in three Movements.
I. Quick. This has a good deal of subject-matter and a great range of emotion. There are five Main Tunes, and they range from the tragic to the pathetic, the quietly happy to the exultant. The Movement opens with the statement of these tunes ; then there is a very short ' development ' of some of this material; finally the tunes are repeated, with some changes, and a short ' Coda,' or closing passage rounds off the Movement. II. Slow. This might almost be called a Song for Violin, with accompaniment for Piano- but an accompaniment of real interest, and not a mere support.
The moods, as in the previous Movement, vary. There is a quiet sadness in some parts, an approach to passion in others, and a serene consolation in still others. The Movement is as the musings of a thoughtful and feeling poet-now one aspect of life and now another mastering him.
III. At a medium speed. This begins with threatenings of tragedy, and then suddenly goes off into a transport of joy. Many of the Tunes in this Movement are very lovable, and linger in the memory after the piece is played.

: Miss B. HIND-SHAW
, Lancashire's History in Stone and Brick - The Norman Conquest '

M.I.C.A., M.I.M.E.,
' Manchester's Water Supply '

relayed from the Meeting in the Whitworth Hall , Manchester University, including Presidential Address by the Rt. Hon. the LORD HEWART OF Bury, M.A., LL.D., P.C., and LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND. Proposal of Vote of Thanks by the Rt. Rev. WILLIAM TEMPLE, D.Litt., Bishop of Manchester

S.B. from London

M.A. (Professor of English Literature, Manchester University)-' Manchester and the Drama '

THE STATION ORCHESTRA: Conductor, T. H. MORRISON
SUMMER DA YS contains three pleasant little recollections of open-air delights, by one of our deftest writers of light music. The titles are In a Country Lane, On the Edge of the Lake (Iste of the Waters), and At the Dance.

D.Se., F.R.S. (Senior
Member of the Manchester University Senate)- ' Tho Univesity of Manchester '

S.B. from London