(From Birmingham)
Relayed from St. Martin's Parish Church
Speaker, Canon Guy RoaEBS, M.C.

No. XXIV of the Thirty-Fourth Winter Series Relayed from the- New Pavilion, Bournemouth THE BOURNEMOUTH Municipal AUGMENTED
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir DAN GODFREY (Soloist, PHILIP DORE> )

(From
Birmingham)

(From Birmingham)
The Hermit,' a Sketch by L. B. Powell , with Incidental Flute Solos by SIDNEY HEARD
Vocal Selections by THE CLEF TRIO

Jean Melville (Songs at the Piano)

(Bach)
(From Birmingham)
Relayed from the Town Hall
DOROTHY SILK (Soprano)
MARGARET BALFOUR (Contralto)
STEUART WILSON (Tenor)
ARTHUR CRANMER (Baritone)
WANDA LANDOWSKA (Harpsichord)
THE FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY and City OF BIRMINGHAM ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ADRIAN BOULT

by LAFFITTB

(Continued)

(From Birmingham)
The Birmingham Studio Chorus and Augmented Orchestra
(Leader, Frank Cantell)
Conducted by Joseph Lewis
Elsie Griffin (Soprano)

Orchestra
Overture, 'Susanna's Secret'...Wolf-Ferrari

A brilliant member of the modern Italian school, Wolf-Ferrari has shown himself to be at homo both in serious and in lighter music. In this opera, as the Overture makes clear, he has given us music of exactly that delicate and whimsical order which the slight little tale demands. The story centres round the discovery by Suzanna's husband of the trace of tobacco smoke in her boudoir, and the jealous suspicions which that aroused in an ago before smoking by women was at all usual. Only at the end does Suzanna confess that she herself smoked the offending cigarette.

Elsie Griffin and Orchestra

The best-known number from Gounod's opera on the Shakespeare story, this is sung by Juliet at the ball in her father's house in the first Act. If one remembers that Juliet was supposed to be only fourteen and that this was her first appearance at a great ball, the air may seem to be rather brilliant and full of assurance, but opera conventions are not wont to heed such considerations, and the air has always been a favourite with sopranos. It is eloquent of youthful pleasure in dancing and brilliant surroundings, and expresses the wish that all life might be full of such gaiety.