(From Birmingham)
THE BIRMINGHAM MILITARY BAND
Conducted by W. A. CLARKE
5.45 THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
(From Birmingham) : ' Games to Play on a Railway Journey,' a Dialogue by MONA PEARCE .MARGARET ABLEHORPE (Pianoforte).
THE CLEF TRIO in Musical Items
Europe is Dead! Long Live The European!
By Mohr
The English Version by Susan Behn and Cecil Lewis
The action takes place at the Castle Orloff on a lake near Salzburg, in Austria. The entrance-hall of the castle is beautiful, distinguished. Folding doors lead to the garden; a long window overlooks the park. It is an evening in June.....
Listeners who heard Rampa would immediately identify without being informed the author of Improvisations in June.
Here is the same bitter contempt for contemporary human values, the same characterisation, the same careful creation of an atmosphere in which the real seems to be the vision of a lunatic, and the ideal a reasonable commonplace.
Zappe the 'Improvizator' - Âengaged with his beautiful daughter to cure the heir to a financial throne of his delusion that there must be something money cannot buy - is employed by the dramatist to hold the mirror up to an age of motley materialism.
(From Birmingham)
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO AUGMENTED
ORCHESTRA
(Leader,
FRANK CANTELL)
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS (First Broadcast Performance.) Conducted by the Composer
A LEXIS GUNNING A is a South African composer, some of whose works, Symphonic Poems, Suites, and a Concerto have already been broadcast.
This. Second Pianoforte Concerto was written for and dedicated to one of his pupils, Rosalind Bennett , who at seventeen gained high praise at the recent Birmingham Competition Festival.
The First Movement, says the composer, seeks to show forth the happiness and hopes of youth ; the Second suggests the ups and downs of an artist's life, and the Last Movement depicts the joy of the true artist who has conquered.
