WEATHER FORECAST
BELLA REDFORD (Soprano) Booth HITCHIN (Bass)
Directed by GEORGES HAECK
From the Restaurant Frascati
2.0 2.25 (Daventry only) Experimental Transmission of Still Pictures by the Fultograph Process
Miss C. VON Wyss , ' Nature Study for Town and Country Schools—X,
Dandelions'
BALBINA BRAYININO
(Pianoforte)
THE LENA MASON
STRING QUARTET
' De Ole Umberrella ,' ' Pete's Lament' and ' What's de Good ob Grousin' ? ' by Frederick Chester
'Brer Rabbit Again,' adapted and told by ETHEL MALDEN
Plantation Songs
BRAHMS' SONGS sung by MARK RAPHAEL (Baritone)
TN her third talk Mrs. Sidney Webb will explain how the social student should use documents, contemporary literature, and statistics-three sources of information each with its appropriate pitfalls. She will refer to the dangers of faked documents, the vast range of contemporary newspapers, sermons, books and plays, and the peculiar fallacy of the statistician.
NORA GRUNEBAUM (Soprano) THE BROSA STRING QUARTET
(BROSA—GRUNEBAUM—RUBENS—PINI)
'THE last string Quartets' of Beethoven, as they are always called, are admittedly difficult and obscure, but, to his devout admirers they are a very precious, even sacred, part of his noble work. More than anything else ho wrote, they are regarded as intimate revelations of his own spirit, full of the deep sadness and of the physical suffering which made his last years a martyrdom, but touched, too, with something of the splendid courage and hope which animated him even then. Begun in the summer of 1824, and finished in November, 1826, only a few months before his death, they were clearly written down as expressions of what he felt, without much, if any, thought of those who were to hear them.
Opus 127, in E Flat, is the least tragic and mvsterious. and has its moments of happiness as of real lyrical beauty. The first movement, with its majestic introduction and its main swiftly moving part, is in effect, a long melody decorated with the most varied motives.
The slow movement has a dignified thems, with something mysterious and seraphic in ite strain, on which there follow variations ; and the Scherzo ranks along with that in the Ninth Symphony and the first of the Opus 59 Quartets as among the biggest and most fully developed of Beethoven's.
The last movement, and this has been thought to be deliberate on Beethoven's part, has no indication of the speed at which it is to be.played.
More than the other three movements it has hints of gaiety.
Lachen und
Weinen
(Laughing and Weeping) Schubert
Lied der Mignon (M i g-non's Song)
N u s s b a tin.
(The Nut Tree) . . . . .
Volkslied - Schumann chen (Lit- tie Folk Song) . . . . .
Waldeinsam keit
(Forest Solitude) Reger
Z u m Schlafen
(Slumber Song)
Madchenlied.
(Maiden's Song) . . . . .
Das Madchen Brahms
Spricht (The Maiden
Speaks) ....
String Quartet, No. 3
Hindemith
Fugato — Very slow crotchet. Quick quaver —Very energetic. Quiet crotchet-Always flow. ing. Moderately quick crotchet. Rondo.
THE setting is Oblivia, a duchy in the Tyrol.
The opera tells of the adventures of Rudolph, a bandit chieftain known as ' The Count of Como.' Rudolph loves the Duke's 'daughter Silvia, and, rather than see her married by her father's orders to the ridiculous Crown Prince of Pomerania, he storms the court, deposes the Duke, and proclaims Oblivia a republic with the Court barber as President. So much for the first Act.
The second Act shows the revolution in full running. Plots and counter-plots intervene and we finally leave Rudolph (with Silvia as his bride at last) exchanging a bandit life for that of respectable finance and the Duke gaily succeeding the Presidency-amid the acclamations of the bandits, now once more loyal civil guards of Oblivia.
