Mr. R. Crompton Rhodes, 'Landmarks in the History of Birmingham - The Theatres.'
(The Fifth of a Series of Talks given in connection with the Birmingham Library.)
Gertrude Davies (Soprano)
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Fairy. Story, by PHYLLIS RICHARDSON. Songs by XORAH TARRANT (Contralto) Talk on Folk Songs, with Illustrations by JANET MACFARLANE
The STATION ORCHESTRA
DVORAK only wrote three Movements which he designed for a Symphony.
Later he issued them as three Overtures, entitled respectively Nature, Carnival and Othello. Carnival was played on Sunday (3.30) by the Birmingham Station Orchestra.
Nature opens with an introduction, and then the First Main Theme is heard on the Clarinets, beginning with a repeated motive of two notes. This subject is found again prominently in the Othello Overture, and momentarily in Carnival.
Two or three other tunes appear, nearly all in the original key, before the dance-like Second Main Tune appears in a fresh key on the Strings, with a continuation, more serious in style, played by Violins in octaves, accompanied by Trombone chords.
The last piece of material is one .that the composer uses a good deal during the piece - a Woodwind phrase that trips lightly down the scale.
All the main ideas are worked up in the course of the Overture, and just when we are coming to a peaceful ending there is a very loud outburst.
The quiet mood is quickly resumed, and the work dies away with a reminiscence of its first melody.
JOSEPH YATES (Baritone) and Orchestra
The Vagabond \ (Songs of Travel)
The Roadside Fire ...... Vaughan Williams
MARJORIE HOVERD (Soprano)
I Know a Lovely Garden.............D'Hardelot Linden Lea ................ Vaughan Williams Here in the Quiet Hills.................................... Carne
ORCHESTRA
On the Steppes of Central Asia......................... Borodin
JOSEPH YATES
1 Love the Jocund Dance ...... Walford Davies Care Flies from the Lad that is Merry .... Arne
ORCHESTRA
Suite, 'From the Countryside ' ......... Coates
In the Meadows; Among the Poppies; At the Fair
S.B. from London
