Dr. J. E. MYERS , Ten Great Scientists—
VIII, Louis Pasteur '
by PRESENT STUDENTS of the ROYAL MANCHESTER
COLLEGE OF MUSIC
STRING QUARTET: NORAH WINSTANLEY (First Violin), MARGARET WARD
, Guy PARSONS (Viola). LEONARD BAKER ('Cello)
Three Songs by Rupert Marsh, sung by Harry Hopewell 'Boot and Saddle,' 'Hunting Song,' 'Pebbles.'
'The Squirrel' and 'Pan and the Fairies' (Hardy), 'My Canary' (Hunt), sung by Betty Wheatley.
'In my Native Country' and 'Little Bird' (Grieg), played Eric Fogg.
A PROGRAMME OF MOODS interpreted by Mr. PERCY SCHOLES
Relayed to London and Daventry
TOWN
A Reading from 'The Londoner' (Charles Lamb)
THE AUGMENTED STATION ORCHESTRA
Conducted by T.H. MORRISON
A GREAT favourite is Cockaigne, that picture of London, the town of the Cockneys: a picture of bustling, cheery, noisy existence, with Romance threading its way bravely through the clatter.
The meaning of Elgar's tunes will be apparent to all who hear them. As the pageant passes, we see a number of people in a hurry, a sober citizen or two, a pair of lovers, a cheeky miniature version of the sober citizen, a military band, first in the distance and then close by, the lovers seeking seclusion in a church, the street again with its familiar associations. PARIS, the gay city, could hardly have gayer music than this favourite piece of carnival time, by the Norwegian composer, Svendscn. We imagine some such jollification as the Shrove Tuesday procession, with its decorated cars, grotesque figures, masquers, and happy crowds of holiday-making spectators.
COUNTRY A Reading of 'The Vagabond' (Robert Louis Stevenson)
WHEN Beethoven wrote his Pastoral Symphony he was at great pains to have it understood as (to use his own words) ' more expression of feeling than painting.' Listeners may find interest in deciding for themselves how far this is true.
This evening we are to hear the Second Movement, entitled By the Brooklet. The impression is that of rippling along dreamily, without a pause.
One notices chiefly two Solo 'Cellos, muted, whose lines of melody are generally doubled, an octave above, by other Strings.
At the end, birds begin to sing. The trilling of the Nightingale is represented by a Flute, the high repeated notes of the Quail by an Oboe. and the lower call of the Cuckoo by the two Clarinets.
