Directed by JOSEPH MUSCANT
From THE COMMODORE THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH

Miss MARGARET JONES , O.B.E.: 'Simple Dishes from the Cheaper Parts or Beef'

RECEPTION TEST

Miss RHODA POWER : Empires, Movements and Nations-Interlude III , Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky '

Mademoiselle Camille Viere and Monsieur E. M. Stephan: French Dialogues-III,
'A L'Exposition Coloniale'

Frmom the Dorchester Hotel.

Sung by John Morel
Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
Circa 1190 - Virtute Numinis Miris it is
" 1225.
(Eng. MS. anon)
" 1240 (Prob. by John Fornsete, monk of Reading), Sumer is icumeii in
" 1290 anon., Jesu Cristes Milde Moder
" 1380 Angelus ad Virginom
" 1415 Song of Agincourt
" 1425 I have set my hert so hye
" 1440 Now woldo y fayne summer this mak
" 1445 Alas departynge
" 1445 Go hert hurt with adversite
(Eng. MSS)

There is a dearth of fourteenth century MSS., and the few that are available are in no way an advance upon the thirteenth century. The one included, mentioned in Chaucer's Miller's Tale as part of the Oxford Scholar's repertory, is one of the earliest examples of faulxbourdon (Shakespeare knew all about it and spelt it fauburden). This was a form of composition consisting more or less of a chain of first inversions, and considered by the majority of mediaeval and modern authorities to be of English origin. This example shows the new development in all passages approaching a close.

The Song of Agincourt. Our first national song.
1415. Amid the jubilant pageantry of King Henry's triumphant return from Agincourt, we are told that 'boys with pleasing voices were placed in artificial turrets, singing verses in his praise.' The King, however, decreed that 'no ditties should be made and sung by minstrels or others of his glorious victory, for that he would whollie have the praise and thanks altogether given to God.' Nevertheless, many celebration songs continued to appear, among which this was the most famous. The opening dedication in Latin is so far a compromise with the King's injunction that the praise is first (not 'whollie') rendered to God.

Miss V. SACKVILLE-WEST

Professor ARNOLD PLANT (Sir Ernest Cassel Professor of Commerce, London School of Economics): 'The Regulation of Industry and Commerco '

Conductor, LESLIE WOODGATE

Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin

GEORGE PARKER (Baritone)
THE CATTERALL STRING QUARTET:
ARTHUR CATTERALL (Violin) ; LAURENCE TURNER (Violin) ; JOHN FRY (Viola) ; HERBERT WITHERS
( Violoncello)
THE first piece of Dvorak's Chamber Music to make its way beyond the frontiers of his native Bohemia was the sextet for strings. Op. 48, introduced to the rest of Europe by Joachim and his colleagues. Jean Becker , leader of the Florentine Quartet, lost no time in asking the composer for more, begging that it might be as truly Slav in character as the sextet: this quartet was Dvorak's compliance with that request. All through, it'is the homcloving Bohemian Dvorak who is singing to us with all the direct simplicity, the mirth and laughter which were his in those happy years
,of early middle age : its prevailing mood is a frank zest in the beauty and the fun of life.

JACK HARRIS 'S BAND, from GROSVENOR HOUSE,
PARK LANE