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A Tonic for the Tired Business Man
Written, composed and produced by ERNEST LONGSTAFFS
Cast ANONA WINN
LESLIE FRENCH
(By kind permission of the London Hippodrome and J. C. Williamson Co.)
JEAN ALLISTONE
FOSTER RICHARDSON
PHILIP WADE
The Revue Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by ERNEST LONGSTAFFE

Contributors

Produced By:
Ernest Longstaffs
Produced By:
Cast Anona Winn
Unknown:
Jean Allistone
Unknown:
Foster Richardson
Unknown:
Philip Wade
Conducted By:
Ernest Longstaffe

(Fourth Season, 1929-1930)
Relayed from THE ARTS THEATRE CLUB
Fourth Concert
A RECITAL OF MUSIC BY BELA BARTOK
MARIA BASILIDES (Soprano)
JOSEPH SZIGETI (Violin)
BELA BARTOK (Pianoforte)
JOSEPH SZIGETI and BELA BARTOK
Rhapsody No. I (1928)-New Version
Lassu-Friss
(Dedicated to Joseph SZIGETI)
MARIA BASILIDES , accompanied by THE COMPOSER
Four Hungarian Folk Songs (1929)
Song of Sorrow; Shepherd's Song; Game-making Song; Swineherd's Dance
BELA BARTOK
Second Elegy (1909) Two Burlesques
A Bit Drunk (1911); Quarrel (1908)
JOSEPH SZIGETI and BELA BARTOK
Second Sonata in Two Movements (1922)
Molto moderato; Allegretto

Some of our older listeners can remember the storm of abuse with which Wagner's music was assailed when it was first played over here. To ears accustomed to the sweet and guileless melodies of Italian opera, to the simple grace of French ballets, to the noble serenity of Beethoven, this new music was an utter abomination.
Now, barely two generations later, Wagner's music is as surely a part of the common man's delight as anything which art can offer him.
But music cannot stand still, nothing can, without stagnating. Each succeeding age has its apostles of advance, its explorers of now paths - and the bolder they are, the further they strike out along untrodden ways, the less can they expect us common folk to follow them, to understand the beauties they assure us they have found. But it does behove us to be patient, and, moreover, to be humble. To our grandchildren, Bartok and the other 'fiery particles' of today may well be the kindly and inspiring friends that Wagner is to us: in The Radio Times of 1990, some one may be quoting Bartok, as Wagner is cited here, by way of a sermon on the virtue of tolerance.
The creative artist is always, more or less, a law unto himself : nothing really new could ever be created otherwise. But Bartok is apparently bound by no laws at all, even of his own devising : if he is guided by any rules or formulae, he evolves new ones for every fresh work he gives us, with a rapidity which leaves even his own disciples panting far behind him, unable to keep pace with such a swift and tireless change of outlook,

Contributors

Music By:
Bela Bartok
Soprano:
Maria Basilides
Violin:
Joseph Szigeti
Pianoforte:
Bela Bartok
Pianoforte:
Joseph Szigeti

Mr. JAMES AGATE and Mr. LEON M. Lion
A Theatrical Discussion
MR. AGATE's sprightly ability to maintain his points in a discussion is already well known to listeners. For a long time now he has been ' telling the world ' in a gay and critical manner the truth (as he sees it) about the latest plays. On this occasion he will join in a friendly fisticuffs with Mr. Leon M. Lion , the well-known London theatrical manager. During his career, Mr. Lion has put on most of Galsworthy's plays-in itself a. sufficient claim upon our gratitude. It will be particularly of interest, in this dscussion, to notice the different view-points, within the ' profession,' of the critic and the actor-manager.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr. James Agate
Unknown:
Mr. Leon M. Lion
Unknown:
Mr. Leon M. Lion

5GB Daventry (Experimental)

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