William Barrand (Bass)
The Wireless Chorus
The Wireless Orchestra
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Overture, 'The May Queen'
Sterndale Bennett
Sir William Sterndale Bennett was a leadine figure in the Victorian world of music, and did more for his generation than we are apt to remember now. He was one of the first students at the Royal Academy of Music, which in those days was in comparatively humble quarters off Hanover Square. It was a boarding-school then. He had the good luck to play at one of the Academy Concerts at which Mendelssohn was present, and then and there began a friendship which had a considerable influence on Bennett's career. He visited Leipzig more than once at Mendelssohn’s invitation and played and conducted his own music in the famous Gewand bans. Schumann was also keenly interested in the young Englishman and spoke very warmly of him in the columns of his own paper.
In the course of his long and busy career, Sir William held many important appointments, chief of which was at the Royal Academy, whose Principal he became in 18?6. He was Professor of Music at Cambridge and founder of the Bach Society. His own music is now very little played, although the Cantata 'The May Queen' is still sometimes sung by choral societies. It was composed for the Leeds Festival of 1858, at which has bad been asked to conduct, and was for long the most popular English work in its class. It is thoroughly tuneful and melodious, enjoyable to sing as well as to hear.
Like Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Edward German showed his interest in music at an early age by organizing and conducting a local band in his native town, arranging, and even composing, most of the music which they played. But after some years at the Royal Academy of Music, first as a student and afterwards as professor, the Theatre claimed much of his attention, and the music which he has written for many of the Shakespeare plays has had a large share in making him the popular composer he is. His own two Operas, Merne Englarvi and A Princess of Kensington, leave no room for doubt as to the direction in which his genius has found its happiest expression.
The Theme and Six Diversions are easily recognizable as a kin to his popular Dances and several of the Variations are actual dance tunes. The Theme is introduced by a brief Prelude in which the same tune is heard in a slightly altered form, suggesting the Dorian mode. It is itself a very straightforward tune, and though the Diversions are worked out with great interest and variety, their kinship with the tune is never lost sight of. Throughout the fourth and at the beginning of the sixth, the theme is heard almost in its original guise.

by POUISHNOFF

' The Patience of Job '
Job i. v. 1-22
The Book of Job is the story of a man who experienced every trial and misfortune that flesh is heir to, and yet remained true to his God. Indeed, the phrase 'The Patience of Job' has become proverbial.
Job was a man of vast wealth, so that 'this man,' we read, 'was the greatest of all the men of the east.' He was also 'perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.'
But so far his faith had not been tried. God therefore allowed Satan to bring disaster after disaster upon him. This afternoon's reading tells of the capture of his oxen and his asses by Sabeans; the destruction of his flocks and servants by fire; the capture of his camels by the Chaldeans, and finally the extermination of his sons and daughters at one fell swoop by a great wind which blew from the wilderness, and destroyed the house in which they were all assembled.
'In all this,' however, we are told 'Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.'

S.B. from Glasgow
Robert Burnett (Baritone)
The Station Choir
The Station Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert A. Carruthers

This Cantata, which was sung by Robert Burnett with the Glasgow Station Choir and orchestra, in October last year, is one of the comparatively few which are laid out for solo voice throughout, except for the chorale at the end.
Among the most splendid Â’ is a phrase which has already appeared in notes on other cantatas, but it must, be used of this work also; musicians all the world over are agreed in regarding it as a noble piece of profoundly devotional music, instinct with Bach's deep sincerity. It is one of those, too. of which he carefully revised the parts himself, furnishing valuable clues to his wishes in the often disputed matter of phrasing.
The singer who undertakes it must have a vivid sense of its dramatic power and fervour, and must be able to carry us with him, as the poem, and with it the music, passes gradually from a mood of sorrowful acceptance of the Cross to an exultant welcome of approaching death.
In the first aria, the accompaniment is eloquent of grief which resignation has transfigured: it is based on a motive which Bach often uses to present suffering, though nowhere more expressively. At one point there can be heard a wave-like figure in the orchestra: the word ' Schiff-fahrt ' (voyage) has turned Bach's thoughts to the sea.
The other aria is built up on a long, flowing melody, and the final chorale is a very beautiful one.
(The text is reprinted by courtesy of Messrs. Breitkopf and Hartel.)

I.—Aria.
I with my cross-staff gladly wander,
It comes from God's own loving hand,
All suff'ring o'er, 'twill lead me yonder
To God in His promised land;
Then sorrow and pain shall be buried for aye,
My Saviour will wipe all my tears away.

II.—Recitative.
My journey through the world is like unto a ship,
Affliction, cross and woe are billows that o'erwhelm and bind me,
And each new day of Death remind me.
And yet t have an anchor sure, a rock of mercy and strength,
Wherewith my God sends help at length.
And thus He saith to me: I am with thee,
I will not leave thee ever nor forsake thee!
And when the storm is o'er, and calmed is the angry foam,
I step forth from the ship into my home,
That is the heav'nly home, within open portal
Shall I unite with saints immortal.

III.—Aria.
Triumph, triumph, now is mine,
Sin and death are trampled beneath me.
My strength is in the Lord most High,
With eagle's wings I'd cleve the sky,
Nor weary in my upward soaring,
But join the band of souls adoring,
O that it might be this day.

IV. Recitative
With girded loins I stand and wait
My summons to the blessed state.
If so be I may merit,
The hope at JesusÂ’ hands to inherit,
How blessed will it be
When I the port of rest at last shall see!
Then sorrow and pain shall be buried for aye,
My Saviour will wipe all my tears away.

V. Choral
Come O death, thou twin of slumber.
Come and cut my sorrows short;
Loose my ship from ropes that lumber,
Bring me safely into port.
Let who will seek to evade thee,
Thou dost not need to persuade me,
For I gain through thee alone
Access to my Saviour's throne.

From St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Address by the Rev. PAT MCCORMICK
The BELLS
Order of Service :
Hymn, ' Immortal, invisible, God only wise ’ (English Hymnal, No. 407)
Confession and Thanksgivings Psalm 146
Nunc Dimittis
Prayers
Hymn, ' God is working His purpose out ' (Ancient and Modern, 735)
Address : The Rev. P. MCCORMICK
Hymn, ' Hail, gladdening Light '
(Ancient and Modem, IS)
Blessing

Appeal on behalf of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields Eye Hospital) by Mr. A. J. ALAN MOORFIELDS
,’ as the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital is usually called, is both the oldest and the largest eye hospital in the world. It has been in existence for over a hundred and twenty years, and has treated nearly 3,000,000 patients, and it can fairly claim by its training of eyp surgeons nnd its research work to have helped rich and poor alike all over the world. The present, scheme for extension, for which £25,0(10 has already been collected, demands a further £25,000, and it is being appealed for in the belief that those who help to give it will he helping not merely an eye hospital, but the very fountain-head of ophthalmology, upon whose efficiency the nation's eyesight so largely depends.
Contributions should be addressed to
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MEGAN THOMAS (Soprano)
W. H. SQUIRE (Violoncello)
THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON O’DONNELL

' THE SPIRIT WITHIN'

(Daventry only)
S.B. from Cardiff