WEATHER FORECAST

MARGARET BARRETT (Soprano)
ROBERT CLOTSWORTHY (Bass Baritone)
TILLY FLEISCHMAN (Pianoforte)

From the Hotel Cecil

(a) A Beginner's Course
(b) An Intermediate Course with a Short Concert
(c) A Short Advanced Course

Conducted by ARNOLD EAGLE From the Shepherd's Bush
Pavilion

(Continued)

Selections from tho Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, played by THE GERSHOM PARKINGTON
QUINTET
' Groy Lag the Leader '—the Story of a Wild Goose (II.
Mortimer Batten )
' When Animals are Ill,' with LESLIE G. MAINLAND M
Physician-in-Chief

Played by Leonard Warner
From St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate
Alle Monschen mussen sterben (All men must die)
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig (O Lamb of God unspotted)
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (The Old Year is passed away)
Jesu, meine Freude (Jesu, my gladness)
Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, Schopfer (We all believe in one God, the Creator)
THE Choralo Preludes to be played today offer a number of specially interesting examples of Bach's use of rhythmic and melodic devices very much in the way in which Wagner, to quote the best known modern instance, employs motives to identify his characters and the chief, incidents and themes of his dramas.
Among Bach's most characteristic motives is one which he uses for grief of an exalted order, and it is often made up of a little phrase in which two notes are bound, a kind of sighing figure. It is hoard in a simple but very expressive form in the Chorale Prelude, 'O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig' ('O Lamb of God, unspotted'), the second of the five to be played this evening This Chorale Prelude is one of the few in which Bach illustrates almost the whole course of the text. As a rule ho is content to seize on some leading idea in the words of the hymn, and-to enlarge upon that, but the three verses of this hymn were evidently all in his mind as he composed the Prelude. The mood of the first' two verses is mainly a prayer for compassion, but in the third a deeper grief makes its way into the music where the words 'or else must we despair.' At the very end where the hymn sings of peace and heavenly messengers, the Prelude finishes with an ascending cadence in a mood of real joy.
The text of the hymn on which the first of this evening's Preludes is founded, ' Alle Menschen mussen sterben,' means 'All men must die,' so that it may seem at first sight strange that Bach uses in it ono of his motives of gladness. What Bach no doubt had in mind was the line which tells of resurrection and the great glory that awaits those who love God.
The third of the Preludes, 'Das alte Jahr vergangen ist,' 'The Old Year is passed away,' again uses a motive like that of 'O Lamb of God'; the whole Prelude is invested with a sense of melancholy.
A motive of striving and restlessness is the basis of 'Jesu, meine Freude' ('Jesu, my gladness') ; Bach is picturing the agitated soul as it seeks for the Saviour.
'Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, Schopfer' ('We all believe in one God, Creator') is one of the big Choral Preludes, almost of the dimensions of a Fantasia. In essence it is a very simple, almost childlike expression of Bach's own simple faith.

At some time or other, most boys pass through a stage in which the 'mighty hunter' - the Allan Quartermaine of fiction - represents their ideal man. Mr Chadwick has a strong claim to the title. A Londoner by birth, he went to South Africa in 1900, during the Boer War, and spent the next eight years in various bodies of mounted police. In 1909 he was trading and hunting in Matabeleland; in 1911, in the Belgian Congo; and 1914 found him in Barotseland. After the war (when he fought in German South-West and German East Africa) he rode, hunted, traded, and explored in Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa, Rhodesia, and Angola. Since 1926 he has been a journalist, author and lecturer, and he has recently been lecturing in Copenhagen.

CLAPHAM AND DWYER
(Another Spot of Bother)
THE TRIX SISTERS
In Selections from their repertoire of syncopated numbers
HARRY HEMSLEY
(Child Impersonations)
GEOFFREY GWYTHER
(Light Ballads)
BILLY THORBURN
(Piano Solos)
CLAUDE HULBERT and ENID TREVOR in 'Our DIFFICULTIES ' by ARTHUR WIMPERIS
JACK PAYNE and THE B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA

INDIA is today as great an enigma as any in tho East.'
Next week begins a series of talks on India by Mr. Dalway Turnbull, to be given on Thursdays at 7.25, and this evening's talk is to some extent an introduction to them. Sir Basil Blackett was for six years Finance Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-
General, and his term of office lasted from 1922 to 1928.

and The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne,
Orchestra
Relayed from the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne

ORCHESTRA Finlandia - Sibelius
RISPAH GOODACRE (Contralto) Song of the Genie - Bantock
ORCHESTRA Selection, Works of - Tchaikovsky
Tom JONES (Violin Solos) Apres un Rêve - Fauré
Spanish Dance - Granados, arr. Kreisler
On Wings of Song - Mendelssohn
RISPAH GOODACRE Through the Sunrise - Nutting
ORCHESTRA Fantasia. 'La Bohème' - Puccini