Relayed from the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth
THE BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (50 Performers)
Conducted by Dame ETHEL SMYTH and Sir DAN GODFREY
No. 31 of the Thirty-Third Winter Series
Specially arranged for the British Music Society Congress
(First Performance at these Concerts)
THE Suite was originally composed for Anthony Bernard's Chamber Orchestra and is dedicated to him. It has some of the Oriental characteristics found in much of bcotts music. The form is simple, the music being based on recurring themes which will be apparent without any analysis. The three titles - Fata Morgana, Dance of Spectres, and Elves and Goblins - indicate the descriptive nature of the music.
This work is written in free 'sonata' form, in which we are introduced to two main themes of different character, divided by a subsidiary theme which appears in the form of a dialogue between Oboe and Bassoon. Notice the little figure which opens the work and is played very softly by the First and Second Violins. This figure is almost always present.
The middle section introduces a new theme, which is announced by solo Oboe and then taken up by all the Violins.
The Rhapsody ends very quietly, the Bassoons softly playing the opening figure, thus preparing the way for the last word by the Flutes, which recalls the theme of the middle section.

From Birmingham
Conducted by Paul Rimmer

(From Birmingham):
' How we obtained the Multiplication Table,' by Mildred Forster. Songs by Norman Archer (Tenor). ' The Fairy Godmother's Adventure

Personally conducted by JACK PAYNE
FRANK LORDEN (Entertainer)
MARIO DE PIETRO (Mandoline Solos)

LEONARD HENRY (Comedian)
COLLEEN CLIFFORD (Songs at the Piano)
PATRICIA ROSSBOROUGH and IVOR DENNIS
(Piano Duets)
THE B.B.C DANCE ORCHESTRA
Personally conducted by JACK PAYNE

Relayed from the Arts Theatre Club
(Series of Spring Concerts)
Musical Director, EDWARD CLARK
MARIA OLCZEWSKA (Contralto)
HERMANN (Violoncello)
At the Piano, VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON

From Birmingham
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO AUGMENTED
ORCHESTRA
(Leader, FRANK CANTELL )
Conducted by JOSEPH Lewis
Overture, ' In Praise of Scottish Poesio '

Song Cycle, Four Freebooter Songs
Minnie Song ; The Rebel; Son of Mine (Cradle Song); Up in the Saddle

Suite from ' Pelleas and Melisande '
ARTHUR FEAR and Orchestra
Song Cycle, ' Lords of the Sea '
Adventures; Sea Hawks; Nest thee, my Bird; The Swordsman

Fifth Symphonic Poem, Wallace
FOR the six hundredth anniversary celebration in 1905 of the death of Scotland's great patriot, William Wallace , his namesake composed an orchestral work which, while it does not build upon actual Scots tunes, has much of their lilt and life in it. In particular, the rhythm of Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled and The Land o' the Leal will be heard pulsing through the music.
It is in four linked sections. In the first the mood is reflective. A new and powerful march-like theme begins the second section. After this has been built up to a climax, the slow, sweet third section is ushered in by Harps, the muted Strings playing a lyrical melody.
The last section is brilliant and gay. The chief themes (one in the lower instruments and one in the upper Strings) are hinted at before they are heard in full power, near the close. The lilt of Scots wha hae comes in again, and the music makes a joyous end.