From Birmingham
THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM POLICE BAND,
Conducted by RICHARD WASSELL
DURING the war between Turkey and Serbia in 1876, the great Russian pianist, Nicholas Rubinstein , brother of the still more famous Anton Rubsinstein , organized a charity concert for the relief of the wounded, and for the occasion Tchaikovsky, who was enthusiastic for the Slavonic cause, wrote this Slavonic March, which, in fact, he sometimes called a ' Russo-Serbian ' March.
The opening of the March is very sombre, in the manner of a funeral March...' Later, the Russian National Hymn is hoard, and the whole ends brilliantly and joyously.
ROMANCE and black magic mingle in the plot of Weber's opera Der Frcischütz The Marksman '). It is all about a young forester's love and his rival's machinations. An important part is played by magic bullets, which are cast at midnight amid the terrors of a haunted glen.
The melodies in the Overture come from the body of the work, so some of them are tender and some gloomy and menacing.
All alike show Weber's skill in making excellent tunes that, once heard, are easily remembered.
4.15 JANET JOYE (Entertainer).
In ' Types and Notions ' 4.55 JANET JOYE In further ' Types and Notions '

(From Birmingham)
' A Fountain of Fun,' a Play about
Thomas Hood , by FLORENCE M. AUSTIN.
Songs and Duets, by MARJOME PALMER
(Soprano) and ETHEL Williams (Contralto)

Personally conducted by JACK PAYNE
PHILIP MIEDDLEMISS (Entertainer)

S.B. from Manchester
THE AUGMENTED STATION ORCHESTRA
Conducted by T. H. MORRISON

ORCHESTRA
Personally conducted by JACK PAYNE

THIS evening's poetry reading is a special selection from the collected works of James Elroy Flecker. The author of Hassan has suffered to some extent by that play's notoriety, which has overshadowed his smaller scale but more perfect work. The selection to be read includes ' Brnmana '-almost certainly the peak of his achievement, and in many people's opinion one of the finest poems in the English language for imagery, feeling, and sheer beauty of words.