From Birmingham
Relayed from the Pump Room Gardens,
Leamington Spa
THE BAND OF H.M. 14/21 HUSSARS
Conducted by Bandmaster R. E. G. GRIMES
4.33 KELSON JACKSON (Entertainer)
In Song and Story
BAND
IN 1912 Coleridge-
Taylor returned to
Longfellow's Hiawatha, his choral setting of part of which had been his first great success, and planned a ballet on the subject. Its music was .not connected with that previously written. These Inew scenes were later issued as an orchestral Suite, in five numbers : (1) The Wooing ; (2) The Marriage Feast ; (3a) Bird Scene ; (3b) Conjuror's Dance ; (4) The ,Departure; (5) Reunion.
From Birmingham
Why we cannot always Play,' by A. GEORGE LEGG
WALTER HEARD
(Flute and Piccolo Solos)
Songs by BERNARD SIMS (Baritone)
CHRISTINE SILVER will read ' Chanticleor and Partlett' (Hans Andersen )
REG JOHNSON (Animal Imitator)
From Birmingham
MARIE HOWES (Folk Songs)
CHRISTINE SILVER presents ' WHICH '
A Character Sketch by BYERS FLETCHER
PHIL RAY , Jnr. (Entertainer)
CECIL BAUMER and EDITH GUNTHORPE
(Duets for Two Pianofortes)
From Birmingham
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS '
THE music of Cimarosa (1759-1801), one of the most famous of Italian operatic composers, was very well known abroad in his day, though he is little more than a name to us now. In 1787 he was appointed Chamber Composer to the Empress of Russia, and later became Court Musician to Leopold III of Austria. The Secret Marriage is his best-remembered composition.
THE story by Victor Hugo on which the play Le Roi s'amuse is founded is most familiar to us in the Operatic form of Verdi's Rigoletto, composed thirty years before Delibes' incidental music to the play. Though the story is one of passion and crime, the Suite wo are to hear has the grace and elegance we associate with the composer. In the complete Suite there are seven pieces, entitled (1) Gaillarde, (2) Pavane, (3) Scene de Boquct, (4) Lesguercarde, (5) Madrigal, (6) Passepied, and (7) Finale.
HERBERT DE LEON (Baritone)
