' What We Do In the Winter'

THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA: Conducted by Capt. W. A. FEATHERSTONE

relayed from the GRAND
SUPER CINEMA, Westbourne
Musical Director, ISADORE GODOWSKY

S.B. from London

MARGARET HOLLOWAY (Solo Violin) and VERA Wise (Pianoforte) THTS is the most famous of Beethoven's ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano. It was dedicated to Kreutzer, a French violinist.
The First Movement opens with about a minute of slow introduction. It then gets away rapidly with the First Main Tune, an abrupt affair of short, sharp strokes on the Violin. The Second Main Tune is hymn-like and in a major-key. After this comes a Third Main Tune, bouncing up the minor scale. It is this tune which recurs most often in the rest of the movement.
The Second Movement is an Air with Variations. The Air is lengthy and contains in its first notes the elements of syncopation. The, Variations are very clear and can be followed without description
The Third Movement is quick and jig-like. In the First Main Tune the Piano supplies a part in similar rhythm to the Violin's vivacious melody. Immediately afterwards the positions are reversed. The Second Main Tune is in two parts-a flippant tune and a poetical one. The flippant one (in the Violin) is nearly related not only to the First Main Tune but also to the prevailing tune of the First Movement. The contrasting poetical tune, lovingly treated, forms an effective contrast in an otherwise entirely brilliant movement.

S.B. from London (10.10 Local News)