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JOSEPH GREENE (Solo Pianoforte)
KATE LOVELL, Funnels and Triangles'
ORCHESTRA : Directed by JULIAN VEDEY , relayed from the EDINBURGH CAFÉ BALLROOM
Talk: Miss J. E. MCCRINDELL , The Girls'
Club Winter Programme '
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Relayed from the Philharmonic Hall.KATE WINTER (Soprano); WALTER WIDDOP (Tenor), and THE STATION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Relayed to Daventry from 7.55 (app.)
Conductor: JOSEPH Lewis
Principal Violin : FREDERICK BROWN
THIS is a dramatic vocal solo, with orchestral accompaniment, a setting of passages from Shelley's great poem, the Elegy in which he mourns the death of John Keats, under the symbol of the lamentations over the death of the beautiful Adonaïs.
THE Sacred Festival Drama Parsifal was
Wagner's last work. In it, he again treats of the legendary relic of the Eucharist, the Holy Grail (the cup in which the Saviour's blood was received at the Crucifixion), which he had brought into his earlier opera Lohengrin.
In Parsifal the guardian of the Holy Grail has sinned, and sustained a wound from the Sacred Spear which will not heal. He and his Knights are in distress. Blessing comes to them once more through Parsifal, an innocent youth, the ' Pure Fool' who resists temptation.
The excerpts, Klingsor's Magic Garden and the Flower-Maiden's Scene, really form one continuous scene. Klingsor is an evil magician who, angry at his exclusion from the sacred knighthood, has created an enchanted castle and garden. Here, with the help of Kundry, a beautiful woman, and her attendant Flower-Maidens, he tempts the Knights. Parsifal is led there, but is proof against the enchantments and wiles of Klingsor and Kundry and her Maidens.
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