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(From Birmingham)
THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM POLICE BAND
Conducted by Richard WASSELL
TO his Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky attached a ' programme,' in which he dwelt on certain aspects of life, of man's striving for happiness and the intervention of Fate to frustrate it. Perhaps his ma'n idea may bo summed up in his description of life as a continual alternation between grim truth and fleeting dreams of bliss.'
The Second Movement expresses ' the melancholy which steals over us at evening .... A long procession of old memories goes by .... We regret the past, although we have neither courage nor desire to start a new life.' ...

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Richard Wassell

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