(From Birmingham)
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FRANK CANTELL
THE Opera to which this is the Overture enjoys the distinction, probably unique, of having been completely encored on its first performance. Its composer, one of the most famous of the Italian school was, at the time of its composition, Court musician to the Emperor Leopold III of Austria, and it was His Majesty himself who enjoyed the work so much as to insist on its complete repetition immediately after it had been sung and played for the first time. rpHIS is one of twelve
Symphonies which were commissioned from the great Haydn by Salomon, at that date London's most enterprising and successful concert manager. The first six Symphonies for which he had asked Haydn were announced for performance before a note of any one of them had been written, but all were duly delivered and punctually performed, Haydn composing most of them in Salomon's house in Great Pulteney Street here... Immediately, on Haydn's arrival in London, the house became a centre of fashion, even members of the Royal House calling upon him there. So much fuss was made of him that it is astonishing that he found time to compose at all, but he took all the attentions which were showered upon him with his own sturdy modesty, and music remained his chief interest even amidst so much gaiety.
This symphony was performed at one of the concerts in the old Hanover Square Rooms. Haydn himself conducting at the pianoforte, It is full of all his accustomed breezy good spirits.

(From Birmingham)
' Sing a Song of Sixpence '—a Nursery Rhyme
Play by Gladys Ward
Selections by THE
HARRY FREEMAN
QUARTET
Songs by HAROLD CASEY (Baritone)

MIRIAM FERRIS
(Vocal Oddments with HARRY PEPPER at the Piano)'
EILEEN and IRENE HAYES (Violoncello, Harp and Hawaiian Guitar Solos and Duets)

By HENRIK IBSEN

OFFENBACH
(From Birmingltam) THE E BIRMINGHAM STUDIO Chorus and ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
MARJORIE Dixon
(Soprano)
JAMES TOPPINO (Tenor)
AUBREY MILLWARD (Baritone)