from the Carlton Restaurant.
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Mr. C. H. Driver

Frank Thomas (Violin), Frank Whitnall (Violoncello), Vera McComb Thomas (Pianoforte)

Mr. F.J. Harries

Miss Kathleen Freeman

Mr. Stanley Smith

The Station Orchestra
Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite

Everybody knows and enjoys Percy Grainger's arrangements of British folk-tunes. Most of his short pieces are of this nature. In this piece, however, the tunes are his own, and only the rhythmic cast of the piece is after the Morris style-hence, the title Mock Morris. 'Neither the build of the tunes', says the composer, 'nor the general lay-out of the form, keeps to the Morris-Dance shape'.

Sylvia was a successor to Delibes' extremely successful first ballet, Coppelia, but there was a gap of six years between the two, for the Franco-German War of 1870 broke out a few weeks after Coppelia was produced.
The natty little Movement from the Sylvia Ballet that we are to hear owes its name to the fact that it is almost entirely scored for pizzicato (plucked) Strings

When King George made his historic visit to the Indian Empire in 1912. Sir Edward Elgar wrote the music for an Imperial Masque, The Crown of India; This spectacular stage piece was produced at the London Coliseum that year. and the composer then made out of it a Suite of Orchestral pieces, five in number: Dance of the Nautch Girls, Minuet, The Warriors' Dance, Interlude, and March of the Mogul Emperors.

(10.10 Local News)

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