Mr. F. M. EARLE , ' Choosing the Best Work for your Girls 4—I
DAPHNE MARTIN (Soprano)
FRED HODGKINSON (Violoncello)
HELEN PERKIN (Pianoforte)
By CHRISTOPHER STONE
Mr. A. LLOYD JAMES , ' Speech and Language '
From Westminster Abbey
JOAN MUIRELLA (Contralto) ANDREW BROWN 'S QUINTET
MY PROGRAMME by LADY TREE
The Rev. Eric Southam: Teach us to Pray - IV, When ye pray say, "Give us this day our daily bread"
S.B. from Bournemouth
MOZART'S PIANOFORTE SONATAS
Played by ANGUS MORRISON
THE technicalities' of aviation are becoming news. People want to know .how flying is done ; what raises an aeroplane into the air and keeps it there, and what principles arc invoked to make it easy to control. These first elements of aeronautics Dr. Ivor B. Hart , who is one of the Education Officers of the Air Ministry, will explain in his series of talks, starting today with a resumé of man's early attempts to achieve flight, and a short discussion of the essential problem—force and its effects.
THE ALBERT SANDLER TRIO
(By kind permission of the Park Lane Hold) HARRY THURSTON (The Original Ole Bill ')
DIANA LANDEX and EDDIE BRANDT
(American Ballads and Comedy Duets)
Tommy HANDLEY (Comedian)
RONALD GOURLEY (Entertainer)
JACK PAYNE and the B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA
at the Dinner of the Committee of Honour of the British Section of the Barcelona International Exhibition
Relayed from Claridge's Hotel
THE Barcelona International Exhibition, where 'twenty-two nations are to show their goods, will be opened on May 15, and Great Britain will have an organized representation of her manufactures there. Particular interest nttaches to the Spanish Ambassador's speech tonight in view of the tariff question, concerning which he is expected to moke a pronouncement in his speech.
FRANK PHILLIPS (Baritone)
THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
TOCCATA, originally meaning a piece designed to show off the performer's skill on a keyboard instrument, has come to be used without much regard to its supposed derivation—the Italian word for ' touch.' For generations past it has been used to mean something rather like a prelude or fantasia which is not in any cut-and-dried form.
This example by Vaughan Williams fulfils the promise of its title in a stirring way. It is indeed martial and vigorous, with that majestic dignity which the skilful use of the brasses enn impart.
Suite (Xo. 2), ' The Wand of Youth Elgar March ; The Little Bells ; Moths and Butterflies ; Fountain Dance; The Tame Bear ; Wild Bears
DUNHILL. a distinguished former pupil of the Royal College of Music in London, where he held a Composition Scholarship, earned the gratitude of many of his fellowcountrymen by a series of chamber music concerts which he ran for several years. Their special object was to bring forward music of young nntive composers which, although already performed, was in danger of being forgotten. His own most important works, apart from some distinguished chamber music and many beautiful songs, are a set of variations on an original theme, dedicated to the memory of Sir Hubert Parry , and a Symphony. The former was played in 1922 at the Gloucester Festival nnd the latter a year later at Bournemouth. It has also been heard abroad. Dunlrill gained a Carnegie Award in 1925 for his one-act Opera, The Enchanted Garden, although the opera has not so far been adequately presented.
ANDANTINOWITHVARIATIONSforms the middle movement of a so-called 'Symphony on French themes,' composed originally for pianoforte duet. It has been admirably laid out for Military Band by Gerrard Williams , so that none need guess that Schubert did not intend it to be played in that interesting way.
The theme is a very simple one ; horns and cornets play it first, in four short phrases. Wood-winds have the first merry variation largely in their hands, and the second is in a rollicking figure which the basses open. The third is very lively and dainty, with flutes again to the fore, and the fourth is slower and with a hint of solemnity in its movement. It is worked out more fully than the others, and much use is made of a little figure which appears at the beginning of it in the basses." The movement is rounded off by a simple return of the theme from the beginning.
: JACK PAYNE and The B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA
