Miss Rhoda Power
(London Programme, relayed from Daventry)
Relayed from Prince's Café
Pianoforte
Harold Baker: Sanctuary
Marjorie Hoverd (Soprano)
Conducted by Paul Rimmer
The City of Birmingham Police Band, conducted by Richard Wassell, and Gwen Lewis (Entertainer) in Songs and Impressions at the Piano (Soloist : P.C. Cook)
Gwen Lewis in further Items from her repertoire
During the war between Turkey and Serbia in 1876, a great Russian pianist,
Nicholas Rubinstein, organized a charity concert for the relief of the wounded, and for the occasion Tchaikovsky, who was enthusiastic for the Slavonic cause, wrote this Slav March, which. in fact, he sometimes called a 'Russo-Serbian' March.
The opening of the March is very sombre; in fact, it begins 'in the manner of a funeral
March.' Later the Russian National Hymn is heard, and the whole ends brilliantly and joyously.
with Local News at 21.10–21.15
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