Mainly selected from 'A Shropshire Lad,' read by LAURENCE HOUSMAN
THE work of A. E. Housman occupies a unique position in the field of modern
English poetry; despite its reiterated hammer-beat of pessimism, it succeeds in winning an audience wide enough to be reckoned astonishing in these days of ' the little-read poets.' It is difficult to think of Shropshire without remembering ' A Shropshire Lad,' so completely has Housman identified his art with Ludlow and the bills that surround it. Indeed, it is, perhaps, not too much to claim for the poet (who, by the way, will be celebrating his seventieth birthday on March 26) that his poetry has added the most individual note to the whole range of modem English verse. This reading of his poems will be given by Laurence Housman , brother of the poet, and himself poet, novelist, and artist.

The City of Birmingham Police Band
Conducted by Richard Wassell
(From Birmingham)

4.25 Band

4.45 Nora Desmond

Holst is one of the comparatively few modern English composers who have shown a real interest in the value of Military Band music, by composing specially for that eminently popular medium. And that he knows very well how to exploit the various tone qualities, and to give them music which suits them, is by now well known, almost wherever Military Bands play.

This first Suite for Military Band is in three movements. The first is a Chaconne, a modern treatment of an old form in which the music is built up of one phrase repeated over and over, generally in the bass, although occasionally in other parts, and with constantly varied treatment and interest. The second is a melodious and graceful intermezzo, and the third is a lively and vigorous March with a thoroughly popular march tune.

5.15-5.30 Leslie Heward

(From Birmingham)
Conducted by Professor JOSEPH JONES, M.A. (of Memorial College, Brecon)
Order of Service :
Organ Voluntary
Hymn, 'O Love, that Wilt not let me go' (Congregational Hymnal)
Prayers Reading
Hymn, 'O Master, let me walk with Thee' (Congregational Hymnal)
Prayer Anthem
Address
Hymn, 'Blessed be the tie that binds ' (Congregational Hymnal)
Benediction
Organ Voluntary
Organist, Mr. GRAHAM GODFREY

(From Birmingham)
An appeal on behalf of the X-Ray Fund of Tewkesbury General Hospital by Mr. VIN-
CENT YORKE
(Contributions should be forwarded to [address removed])

ALBERT SAMMONS (Violin) and JOHN IRELAND
(Pianoforte) 9.50 ANNE THURSFIELD 10.5 ALBERT SAMMONS and VICTOR HELY.
HUTCHINSON