Speeches by THE BISHOP or WINCHESTER. THE MAYOR OF
BOURNEMOUTH, Professor OLIVER ELTON
At a Public Meeting to Promote the Scheme for a University of Wessex
Relayed from the Town Hall, Bournemouth

THE STATION OCTET
THE prayer to the Virgin, Ave Maria, to which Schubert wrote one of his sublimest melodies, is Ellen's third song in Sir Walter Scott 's Lady of the Lake.
The sweet sentiment of the Serenade evokes a spirit of quietness and beauty.
To Music (the words of which are by Schober, one of Schubert's earliest friends) is a short invocation to the ' divine voice ' to enlighten the darkness of the heart, and to fill the soul with the love of noble things.
The words of Margaret at the Spinning Wheel are from Goethe's Faust. Margaret, left alone, is filled with dread. She recalls her lover's attractions—his eye, and the sound of his voice, and lingers lovingly on the thought of his kiss. Here she pauses in her spinning for a moment, and the accompaniment tells how she re-starts her spinning-wheel. She continues her meditation, longing for the bliss denied her. 10.25 OCTET Fantasia on the Works of Schumann