Miss MARIAN F. McNEILL : ' Scottish Favourites '
—II
(From Edinburgh)

Leonardo Kemp and his Piccadilly Hotel Orchestra, from The Piccadilly Hotel

Sir WALFORD DAVIES : ' Balancing Phrases '
(2.30 Juniors: 3.0 Seniors)

Monsieur E. M. STÉPHAN : ' Early Stages in French '—VI

'That Disarmament is Impracticable at the Present Time'
Proposed by Mr. DOUGLAS JERROLD
Opposed by Commander STEPHEN KING-HALL

THE TROCADERO ORCHESTRA
Directed by ALFRED VAN DAM
From THE TROCADERO CINEMA, ELEPHANT AND
CASTLE

Played by Dr. Harold Darke

Relayed from St. Margaret's, Westminster

It is to an English publishing firm that the world owes the existence of Mendelssohn's Six Sonatas for Organ. Impressed by the popularity of his organ playing, Messrs. Coventry and Hollier commissioned him to write for them, suggesting that 'voluntaries' would be a good name for pieces which were to make their way in England. Mendelssohn chose rather to call his works Sonatas, though the movements are all separate pieces, with nothing to demand their being grouped together, and they are not, with few exceptions, in anything like sonata form. It took some time for them to make their way in England, though, from the first, organists were enthusiastic over them. Dr. Chipp, organist in turn of churches and City Halls in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and finally of Ely Cathedral, was the first to play them in this country. On one occasion at least, he played all six by heart in one recital, a feat which the composer himself confessed was too much for him: he did it once, but only once.

Monsieur E. M. STÉPHAN

Conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
SIDONIE GOOSSENS (Harp)
THE modern concert harp, with whoso tone in the orchestra listeners are familiar, is a very elaborate instrument as compared with its ancestors. In its primitive form, of course, it is one of the most ancient of all musical instruments, but, as far as we can guess from old pictures and sculptures, the early hurp must have had quite a slight and rather deep tone. There is no appearance in the oldest known forms of it, of any dfevice which could have withstood the strain of strings stretched at all tightly. In a small and fairly simple form the harp was adopted Bomewhere in the Middle Ages by the Ce'ltic races, and Welsh.
Irish, and Scottish Celtic harps are still played, usually by a singer who accompanies himself or herself, much as tho old minstrels must have done.
For many years inventors were bupy trying to evolve devices which would enable the harp to play in more than one key without retuning, and the form now in use was devised mainly by Erard, of the famous pianoforte firm. Thanks to his inventive brain, it is now possible, by means of pedals which the player's foot moves, to effect.- quite simply, almost any desired change of key, so that the range of the instrument is practically as complete as that of the pianoforte.

The Hon. HAROLD NICOLSON : 'The Effect on Modem Authors of the Increase in the Reading Public '
IN his last two talks Mr. Harold Nicolson traced the history of the reading public, and showed how it differs now in size and taste from what it was last century. This has an effect, obviously, on the way authors write : anyone writing for his living has a certain audience in mind. In the past the reading public was fairly uniform : now it comprises people of widely varying tastes, and few authors write for more than a section of it. Is this bad, or good ? Can it be avoided ? Mr. Nicolson, in answering these questions, suggests that even in the vast reading public today there is a common factor, and defines it.

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN

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