From Birmingham
THE TOOKEY PIANO TRIO : MURIEL TOOKEY (Violin), ELSA TQOKEY ('Cello), FREDERICK
TOOKEY (Pianoforte)
Adagio (Slow); Finale
GADE was a Dane, whose early work found favour in Mendelssohn's eyes. When Gade was twenty-six Mendelssohn conducted his first Symphony at Leipzig, and wrote the young man a fine letter of congratulation.
Later, Gade acted as Mendelssohn's deputy in conducting at Leipzig. Then he went home to Copenhagen, becoming Conductor, of the Musical Union there, and, from 1861, Court Music Director, receiving several honours from Royalty, the University and other bodies.
Mendelssohn and Schumann influenced his music perhaps more than did his ' native wood-notes wild.' He was much less of a nationalist than Grieg, for instance.
His Pianoforte Trio, Op. 42, contains an animated First Movement, a vivacious Scherzo and a slow section, followed by a vigorous Finale.

THE LONDON RADIO DANCE BAND, directed by SIDNEY FIRMAN
MAROVA (Russian Gipsy Songs with Guitar)
CHARLES HARRIS (Stories and Songs)

Songs by Florenee Cleeton (Soprano) and Stanley Finchett (Tenor). ' The Point of View ’— A Children's Play by John Overton. Margaret Ablethorpe (Pianoforte)

PATTISON'S SALON ORCHESTRA
Directed by THOMAS JONES
Relayed from the Corporation Street Café
Restaurant
From Birmingham

THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND, conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
ViVIEN LAMBELET (Soprano); FREDERICK GRlSEWOOD (Baritone); RONALD GOURLEY
(Entertainer)

THE Sea Pieces, originally written for Pianoforte, contain some of the best and, in the sense of impressiveness, the biggest, of MacDowell's short pieces. Each piece is preceded by a line or two of poetry, generally the Composer's own.

(a) Before To the Sea, MacDowell has written: 'Ocean, thou mighty monster.' 'With dignity and breadth' is the indication.

(b) From a Wandering Iceberg has this stanza prefixed:
'An errant princess of the North,
A virgin snowy white,
Sails adown the summer seas
To realms of burning light.'

(c) A.D. MDCXX. A suggestion of the spirit of the Pilgrim Fathers as they voyaged to a new land.

(d) Starlight. A piece marked to be played 'tenderly.'

(e) Song.
'A merry song, a chorus brave,
And yet a sigh regret
For roses sweet, in woodland lanes -
Ah, love can ne'er forget!'

(f) Front the Depths. 'And who shall sound the mystery of the sea?'

(g) Nautilus. A fairy sail and a fairy boat.'

(h) In Mid-Ocean.
'Inexorable!
Thou straight line of eternal fate
That ring'st the world,
Whilst on thy moaning breast
We play our puny parts
And reckon us immortal I'

8.55 RONALD GOURLEY (Entertainer at the Piano)