From Birmingham
THE NORRIS STANLEY PIANOFORTE SEXTET

From Birmingham
THE ASTORIANS DANCE
BAND
MASON and Armes (Entertainers at the Piano)

(From Birmingham): ARTHUR LINDSAY will Entertain. 'Whfn Walls were High and Knights were Bold,' by Azoline Lewis. Songs by Ivy FENNELL- WILLIAMS
(Soprano)

'(From Birmingham)
Relayed from the BANDSTAND, CANNON HILL PARK
THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM POLICE BAND
Conducted by Richard WASSELL
NONE of the popular excerpts from Wagner's
Operas is better suited to the Military
Band than the Overture to The Mastersinger8. A large part of it is the music of trumpets and trombones, with the rest of the orchestral instruments assisting. This part will be easily recognized. It occupies several pages at the beginning and several more at the end, and it is connected in the Opera with the pomps and festivities of the Mastersingers' Guild in sixteenth-century Nuremberg. When suave and quiet melodies intervene, one has to think of velvety Violins, and a little 'scene between lovers. Then comes some chattering, light-hearted music ; this shows the apprentices at their games. Lastly, the Mastersinger music returns and makes a gorgeous ceremony for the ending. (Soloist, P. C. COOK )
THIS last, in Daudcfs play, is a chorus sung in praise of St. Eloi. First there is a march-like
Introduction (also used in the first Suite), and then a very lively main section comes in. Its melody is an old Provencal song-and-dance tune. This is given out softly, the Side Drum keeping up a rhythmic tap. Other instruments join in and the march theme is heard, combined with the Farandole. The excitement is worked up to a tremendous pitch and the piece ends with crashing chords.
8.0 Miss Bracegirdle does her Duty.' A Story by STACY AUMONIER from ' Miss Bracegirdle and Others.' Read by MARGARET MADELEY. (From Birmingham)

JOAN ELWES (Soprano) THE STRATTON STRING
QUARTET:
GEORGE STRATTON (1st Violin); WILLIAM MANUEL (2nd Violin); LAWRENCE LEONARD (Viola);
John MOORE (Violoncello) 9.0 JOAN ELWES Elizabethan songs