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SPANISH PIANOFORTE MUSIC
Played by NIEDZIELSKI
ISAAC ALBENIZ , beginning his mnsical career as an infant prodigy pianist, devoted his interest throughlife chiefly to his own instrument, although his first composition, produced when he was only seven, was a military band piece. After courses of study at Madrid, Brussels and Leipzig, he toured Europe and America with Rubinstein, and at the age of twenty settled down in his native country as a teacher. He soon gave that up, however, and most of his short life-he was only forty-nine when he died in 1909-was spent between Paris and London. Here he was known for a time as a composer of operas, comic and serious, but, though several of these enjoyed temporary successes, none of them has survived.
It is by his voluminous works for the pianoforte, particularly by those which embody the real essence of his own native music, that he will be best remembered. Many of ithem are dance tunes in the Spanish idiom.

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Isaac Albeniz

Miss CLEMENCE DANE
MISS CLEMENCE DANE returns today to her monthly novel-reviews after an absence of three months. She is a fairly recent acquisition to the critical staff of the B.B.C. She first broadcast last spring, when she contributed two instalments to that very popular detective ' serial ' ' The Scoop ' ; then in April she road the narrative passages in the microphone production of her play Will Shakespeare , and in May she started these reviews. Art student, actress, novelist and playwright, she has had a varied career. Her best-known works are ' Legend,' 'Wandering Stars,' 'Regiment of Women,' ' First the Blade,' ' Enter Sir John' (novels), A Bill of Divorcement, Will Shakespeare , Naboth's Vineyard, and Granite (plays).

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Will Shakespeare
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Will Shakespeare

Professor H. LEVY , D.Se. (Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College of Science and Technology) : ' Is the Universe Mysterious ? '
LAST week Professor Levy described how
Science has always been in revolt against preconceived, ideas. This evening ho will pose the question of what value attaches to the predictions of scientists themselves. Science is always discovering new facts ; at any moment has it the right to forecast the future and. if so, in what way ? Modern science must always be doubting, and can never explain everything completely, so that perhaps we can never know what is going to happen next. Next week Professor Levy will pass from general principles to concrete illustrations of the applications of science to industrial uses.

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Professor H. Levy

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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