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(From Birmingham)
The Birmingham Studio Orchestra
Conducted by Frank Cantell.

Andre Messager, known to us in this country as the composer of The Little Michus and of Veronique, is the last of the long line of French Comic Opera composers whose music really preserves qualities worthy to be dignified by the name 'Opera.' He was a pupil of Saint-Saens, and in every way a worthy pupil.

The Suite 'The Two Pigeons' (two very guileless young people in the story), is a Ballet in six movements. The first is a March, energetic and with a hint of Hungarian rhythm; the second is the dance of the two pigeons, dignified and capricious by turns; the third is a theme with three variations. The fourth is a sort of interlude, a Divertissement, as the composer calls it, sprightly and full of interest; the fifth is a Hungarian dance with the real energy for which we look in such a piece, and the last, called simply Final, is again in a very quick march rhythm, finishing on a note of boisterous energy.

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Conducted By:
Frank Cantell.
Unknown:
Andre Messager

or ' Love's STOWAWAY '
A Comic Opera, written by W. D. HOWELLS
Composed by Sir GEORGE HENSCHEL
Chorus of Passengers, Seamen, Iceberg Fairies
THE WIRELESS Chorus
The WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Scene: The Promenade Dock of the Steamer Mesopotamia
Time : Morning, before Breakfast

Contributors

Written By:
W. D. Howells
Composed By:
Sir George Henschel
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Unknown:
Steamer Mesopotamia
Captain of tho Mesopo':
Foster Richardson
Mr Theron Gay:
John Armstrong
Tho Dock Steward:
Arthur Hosking
Miss Muriel Vane:
Lesley Dudley
The Ice Princess:
Mavis Bennett
Mr Matthew Vane:
Ashmoor Burch
Mrs Matthew Vano:
Esther Coleman
Miss Vane's Maids:
Gladys Winmill
Miss Vane a Maids:
Doris Owens
The Man at the Wheel:
Stanley Riley

5GB Daventry (Experimental)

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