Relayed from Southwark Cathedral
THE 'Siegfried Idyll' was written first for private performance, as a present to Wagner's wife. It belongs to the period when Siegfried, the third of the four big music dramas of the Ring was almost completed. Wagner and his wife were living at Triebschen, near Lucerne, and there, in 1869, their son Siegfried was born. It was that auspicious event which inspired this Idyll. Its composition and the rehearsals were kept a secret from Frau Wagner , and performed as a surprise to her outside the villa. Wagner himself conducted, and the faithful Hans Richter took the trumpet part. Scored for a comparatively small orchestra, the little piece is based on themes which are, with one exception, taken from the music-drama of Siegfried. The one exception is an old German Cradle Song which Wagner introduced with the happiest effect.
WIDOR succeeded Cesar Franck as Professor of the Organ at the Paris Conservatoire, and worthily upheld the fine tradition of French organ music which began a now Icaso of life with Franck's advent. But, although it is his organ music which is much better known in this country than any of the rest of his work, taking, as it docs, a real important place in thoiorganist's repertoire, there is a good deal of symphonic and oven operatic music from his pen. At least one of his Symphonic poems has boon heard in London-A Walpurgis Night. Widor conducted it himself at a Philharmonic Concert hero in 1888. 1.

Sonata No. 3 Con moto maestoso ; Andante tranquillo - Mendelssohn
SYLVIA MEREDITH ' O tell of Jubal's Lyre ' (' Joshua ') - Handel
EDGAR T. COOK Siegfried Idyll - Wagner, arr. Lemare
SYLVIA MEREDITH ' O Men from the Fields' - Hughes
EDGAR T. COOK Ronde dos Princesses - Stravinsky, arr. Besly
Lauda Sion (Suite Latino) - Widor

Alphonse du Clos and his Orchestra
From the Hotel Cecil

2.0-2.25 (Daventry only)
Experimental Transmission of Still Pictures by the Fultograph Process

Fred Kitchen and his Orchestra
Will Pattman at the Organ
From Brixton Astoria

' THE KING OF THE GOLDEN River ' (John Ruskin ) made into a play for broadcasting by M. H. ALLEN

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BACH PARTITAS
Played by EDGAR BAINTON (Pianoforte)

(Entertainers at the Piano)

Relayed from the Queen's Hall
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
35th Season
TATIANA MAKUSHINA (Soprano)
ROY HENDERSON (Baritone)
MARIE HALL (Violin)
SIR HENRY WOOD and his SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Leader, CHARLES WOODHOUSE)
Tchaikovsky Concert
ORCHESTRA
Danse Cosaque (' Mazeppa ')
TATIANA MAKUSHINA, with Orchestra
Légende
As a Blade of Grass
TCHAIKOVSKY'S great gifts of melody naturally lend themselves well to song composition, and there is nothing astonishing in the popularity of some of his vocal pieces, both grave and gay.
This legend of the child Jesus in His garden is of an almost folk·song simplicity, making its appeal, and a very direct appeal it is, without recourse to any elaborate means. It tells how when He had made the roses bloom in His garden, ho bade the Jewish children come, and how they robbed the trees until nothing was left for Him but the thorns, and how they made a wreath of the thorns and crowned His brow with it.
The other is a much more elaborate song, both for the voice and the accompaniment, and at the very end the singer winds it up with a little cadenza. In the several verses, the singer likens his own fate to that of a blade of grass which is cut down by the mowers, a bush of berries which the woodmen cut for its wands, reminding his broken heart always that such was the fate appointed for it.
MARIE HALL and Orchestra
Concerto in D
Roy HENDERSON and Orchestra
Don Juan 's Serenade
THIS has no connection with the Opera, nor with any of the best-known stories, of Don Juan , but is just such a serenade as he might well have sung, in any of tho various guises in which we know him. The original text was a poem by Tolstoy. Tchaikovsky has set it very simply, and each strain begins with a little prelude such as a sercnader might play on his lute, a little running figure which leads very happily into the simple air given to the voice. Tho lady is called Nisetn, and she is bidden, as ladies are in every serenade, to come forth to the lover who awaits her in the moonlit garden.
ORCHESTRA
Symphony No. 5, in E Minor
(For notes on this concert see page 526.)

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WHEN all is known that it is possible to know about birds, they still remain the most elusive of all creatures, close as they are about us in our daily life. ' They have their ways, we ours.' And of all their ways the most enigmatic to the human mind is their habit of migrating-or, in the ease of starlings, of ' hosting' to migrate and never achieving it. Whence, for instance, comes the strength, in such morsels of life, to cross wide seas What guides them ? What urge do they receive towards this sudden gregariousness ? Ono could go on with such questions, many of which still remain, for all the efforts of omi. thologists, but uncertainly answered. Professor J. Arthur Thomson , who is giving this talk from Aberdeen, is one of the most popular writers on biology, zoology, etc, of our day. He is Regius Professor of Natural History at Aberdeen University.

BERTINI'S DANCE BAND, relayed from the Tower
Ballroom, Blackpool
S.B. from Manchester

From Ciro's Club