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MISCHA MOTTE , at the Piano, and RALPH JOHNSON
The MASKS (Vocal Trio)
GEORGE BELLAMY (In selections from further
'Extra Turns' by F. W. Thomas )
MAURICE COLE (Pianoforte So!os)
NINA DORIA (in Neapolitan Songs)
EWART SCOTT and BABS VALERIE in 'Less Scents and Nonsense' by CLIFFORD SEYLER
Music arranged and Composed by HAROLD SCOTT
JACK PAYNE and the B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA

The Wireless Orchestra
Conducted by The Composer
Descriptive Piece, ' By the Blue Hawaiian
Waters'
(Len Fillis, Hawaiian Guitar)
Gipsy Overture, ' Chal Romano ' (Gipsy Lad)
Two Movements from Suite, ' In a Fairy Realm '
The Queen-Fairy Dances ; The Gnomes' March
New Piece, Reverie, ' The Sacred Hour,' with Choir
Patrol, Jungle Drums '
Albert William Ketelbey, happily known wherever popular music is played by band or orchestra, has had a wide experience of music in several directions. Born in Birmingham, he was a student of Trinity College, London, taking courses in organ, violoncello and horn, as well as composition. He has been conductor at several of the London theatres, Music Editor of one of the big publishing firms, and Director of Music of an equally distinguished gramophone Company, and has done valuable work also in examining.
Best known for his popular Suites, in which he has a particularly happy knack of describing the scenes his music would bring before us, he has composed also in more serious vein, and besides several big orchestral works, produced a comic opera, The Wonder Worker. A Quintet of his for Pianoforte and Woodwind instruments won an important prize, so that he is by no means to be regarded solely as a successful purveyor of music for the bandstand or the light orchestra. None the less, it is probably by pieces of that .order that he holds his plate most securely in the affections of the listener who does not take his music too seriously.

TRIUMPHANTLY successful as Gounod was more than once in his career, he knew what it was to meet with dire failure. Ho met it with undaunted courage, refusing to let disappointment embitter him, carrying on even after disasters with the same, enthusiasm as before. His opera, Tribute of Zamora, had its first performance in Paris, April 1, 1881 -an ill-omened day possibly. In any case, the work did nothing to add to his fame and very soon disappeared. But in spite of this lack of success as a whole, it includes some very bright arid sparkling ballet music, a direction in which Gounod was very surely at home.
The suite made from it, consists of four movements. The first is a Barcarolle, with a dainty flowing tune, and the second is a Spanish Dance, instinct with bold and fiery rhythm. The third is a little solo dance for the prima ballerina, delicate and vigorous by turns, and the fourth is an Italian Dance-a sparkling and vivacious Tarantello.

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