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' SCHMUCKE DICH, 0 LIEBE SEELE '
(Rise, O soul, this happy morning)
Relayed from the Guildhall School of Music
The Singers 1
ELSIE SUDDABY (Soprano)
DORIS OWENS (Contralto)
Tom PURVIS (Tenor)
STANLEY RILEY (Bass)
THE WIRELESS CHORUS
The Players:
FRANK ALMGILL (Flute)
{ AMBROSE GAUNTLETT (Violoncello)
Con- EUGENE CRUFT (Bass) tinuo LESLIE WOODGATE (Organ)
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA (Flutes, Oboes and Strings)
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Cantatas for the next four Sundays are : —
Oct. 20. No. 88—Aus tlefer Noth schrei ich zu dir.
(From depths of woe.)
Oct. 27. No. 89—Was soil ich aus dir machen, Ephralm ?
(What shall I make of thee, 0 Ephraim ?)
Nov. S. No. 139-Wohl dent der sich aufseinen Gott,
(Blessed be he that trusteth in his God.)
Nov. 10. No. 26-Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig.
(Ah, how fleeting, ah, how worthless.)

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HARDY WILLIAMSON (Tenor)
ARNOLD TROWELL (Violoncello) THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
MANCINELLI had the unexpected good fortune to be promoted from the ranks of music to take a position of command, and the ability to profit by his good fortune. He was principal violoncellist in one of the Rome theatres when, in 1874, it was suddenly left without a conductor. He was asked to fill the vacant place, and conducted Verdi's Aida with such success that his position was immediately assured. For the rest of his busy life-he died in 1921-he was occupied as conductor and composer, and for a time the London musical world knew him well. He came here in 1886 and conducted performances of the classics and of some of his own music. In the following years he appeared frequently at Covent Garden as conductor, and more than once had music of his own performed at the Norwich Festival. Madrid and New York also welcomed him as operatic conductor, and his own music has been given in most of the principal centres in Europe.
The Overture to Cleopatra was written for a production of a play of that name by Cossa, Mancinelli providing also incidental music. The Overture opens with a solemn and very simple chant, beginning in two parts on the strings, and gathering strength and volume with more elaborate accompaniment gradually added. There is another melody, a little later, in which woodwinds and strings both share, and then the simplicity of the opening chant is heard again, but now with full accompaniment, and the Overture closes with hurrying speed and big emphasis.

ARNOLD TROWELL is known as one of the most brilliant of living violoncellists, and as a singularly successful teacher of his instrument, of which he is professor at the Guildhall School of Music. He has, however, composed much interesting music of his own, chiefly orchestral, and for his own instrument. He has done notable work, too, in editing older violoncello music.
Born in New Zealand, he studied in Germany and at Brussels, where he won a prize for violoncello and where he made his first appearance as a soloist. He has toured extensively, but since 1907 his home has been in this country.

March (introducing Swansea Town ' and Claudy Banks ') ; Song without Words : ' I'll love my Love'; The Blacksmith's Song; Fantasia on the Dargason (introducing ' Green Sleaves ')
The leading composers have for the most part neglected the Military Band, as though so popular a medium wore unworthy of their best ideas. Times are changing, and more and more the great composers are realizing that the band is in every way as well adapted for presenting their music as the concert orchestra may do.
Gustav Hoist is among the few modern British musicians who have given the Military Band a fair share of their best work, composing, among other music, two vigorous and thoroughly popular Suites for it. The second one is largely based on folk tunes, as the names of the movements set forth, and the only further point of interest for listeners is that the two tunes which are so cunningly welded together in the last movement are the ones which Hoist uses so happily in his St. Paul's Suite for strings also.

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