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Bobby's String Orchestra
Relayed from Bobby's Cafe, Clifton, Bristol

A Toytown Dialogue Story by S.G. Hulme Beaman
With Incidental Music by The West Regional Trio

Relayed from Bobby's Cafe, Clifton, Bristol
Doris Mogridge (Soprano), Robert Cole (Tenor), Herbert Powell (Baritone), The Bristol Harmonic Male Voice Choir
Bobby's Orchestra

Dudley Buck, who died in 1909 at the age of seventy, was for many years one of the most popular figures in the music of the United States. Like Edward MacDowell, he spent some years of study in Europe; returning home at the age of twenty-three, he was soon recognized as one of the most brilliant organists America could claim among her native-born citizens. He was no less successful as a conductor, and his long association with the Apollo Club of New York accounts for the preponderance of choral music among his compositions. It certainly was a direction in which he was confidently at home, and many of his pieces are popular with choirs, glee clubs and smaller teams of singers wherever these exist to make music for its own joyous sake.
At its annual dinner and other gatherings, the Apollo Glee Club used to sing, for their own as well as their guests' entertainment, such popular melodies as 'When other lips' by the tenors en bloc, while the basses would sing something like 'Rocked in the cradle of the Deep,' trying to sing the tenors down in friendly competition. Occasionally these accidentally fitted and made fine harmony. One night Dudley Buck arranged these melodies to fit, and the result was 'In Vocal Combat.'

This is a vividly descriptive piece of glee writing, depicting life in Austrian Tyrol, and introducing yodelling and other effects.

Chorus and Orchestra

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