THE LONDON RADIO DANCE BAND
Directed by SIDNEY FIRMAN
THE NESBITT BROTHERS in Syncopation
MARCELLE MAYNE
Songs at the Piano

(Nottingham)

From Birmingham
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
THE CALF OF GOLD is a song in which Mephistopheles derides the simple pleasures of the townsfolk at their Easter merrymaking. The only important thing in the whole world is money, he says, and all alike worship at the shrine of the Golden Calf.
DOCTOR BARTOLO, guardian of the fair Ro,ina. watches her jealously lest lovers more attractive than he should gain her favour. He is told by a friend that Count Almaviva is her lover. The friend, egged on by Bartolo, agrees to start a slander about the Count which, the two hope, will drive him out of Seville.
ONE of Schubert's finest songs in sombre vein is that of The Wanderer, who roams mournfully on through the world, ever seeking an answer to his soul's question 'Where is thy home? Nature seems dead, and all is but vanity.
'Where art thou, beloved land of happiness!' A ghostly voice answers: 'There, where thou art not, there is joy.'
The other song, so well known and loved, embodies the spirit of Napoleonic glory. Two of Napoleon's soldiers are finding their way back from the disastrous Russian campaign. They reach the frontier of France, and learn, to their bitter sorrow, that their Emperor is captured.
Note how, at the end, as the soldier speaker's imagination is fired, the music leaves the minor and g ea into the major for the rest of the piece, the excitement at last culminating in a snatch of the Marseillaise.

CHARLES WOODHOUSE (1st Violin) ; HERBERT KINSEY (2nd Violin); ERNEST YONGE (Viola); CHARLES CRABBE ('Cello)
FLORA WOODMAN (Soprano) (1) Rather slow, leading to quick: (2) Very quick : (3) At a moderate pace ; (4) In the style of a German Dance ; (5) Cavatina — Slow ; (6) Finale-quick

Debroy Somers' Ciro's Club Dance Band from Ciro's Club, under the direction of Ramon Newton, from Ciro's Club