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(The Queen of Love and Sorrow)
Written by IDA M. DOWNING
Played by THE STATION PLAYERS
Characters :
AN ante-room in Holyrood
Palace, Edinburgh; soft music is heard from below; Kizzio is playing and singing to the Queen, who is still in her bed-chamber. Tho two maids of honour are arranging the room and talking ; Mary Beaton hums as she crosses to the window and opens it.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Beaton
Mary Stuart:
Ida M Downing
Mary Hamilton:
Phyllis Richardson
Mary Beaton:
Gladys Colbourne
Rizzio, an Italian, slightly de formed, devoted to the Queen:
Percy Edgar
Darnley, Mary's Young Husband.:
Percy Edgar
Bothwell, Mary's Lover, afterwards her Husband:
Joseph Lewis

THE STATION ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
THE Symphony gets its name from one chord in the Slow MOVEMENT. This Movement, a gently but steadily progressing Air with Variations, begins very softly on Strings alone. Then, at the sixteenth bar, comes a crash from
' the whole Orchestra—the ' surprise '
The LAST MOVEMENT is a quick, jolly one.
Noto the many instances of Haydn's playful use of alternating Wind and String passages.

5IT Birmingham

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