Mrs. WOODS: In the Garden '
From THE PICCADILLY HOTEL
FREDERICK GRINKE (Violin)
ROBERT EDWARDS (Pianoforte)
IN 1908, John Ireland won a Cobbett competition against 134 competitors, with his first Sonata for violin and pianoforte. The work was published, and quickly found a place in the repertories of more enterprising violinists, and Ireland's reputation began to take lank. His next sonata, the one now to be performed, was written during the early years of the War, and was first played by Albert Sammons and William Murdoch in March, 1917.
In some strange way the music of this sonata seemed to take on the colour of a war-harassed world, and to reflect human emotions of that time very exactly. At any rate, the sonata had a great success—the Press could not speak highly enough of it, and soon every violinist was including it in his repertory. What is even more unusual for a Chamber Music work, competing offers were received from publishers, and a first edition was completely sold out before any of the copies had been printed. No work of its day had a more bracing influence on the prospects of British music.
Directed by JOSEPH MEEUS
From GROSVENOR HOUSE, PARK LANE
HAYDN PIANOFORTE SONATAS
Played by HELEN PERKIN
Conductor, B. WALTON O'DONNELL
BERNARD Ross (Baritone)
in A Recital of Music for the Player-Piano
WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN
A new type of programme - being a collection of Plays, Songs, Poems, and a Ballet, chosen and adapted for broadcasting by C. Denis Freeman and M.H. Allen
including:
"Ma Parker"
by Katherine Mansfield
with Margaret Yarde
"The XV Idyll of Theocritus"
with Martita Hunt
"The Jackdaw and the Pigeons"
Music by Hugh Bradford
played by the Composer
"Madam Noy"
Song for soprano and six instruments by Arthur Bliss
with Anne Thursfield
Piano duets by Hugh Bradford and Angus Morrison
Music under the direction of Leslie Woodgate
Here is no attempt to present a programme that relies for its interest upon a central theme; it is a collection of items, all complete in themselves.
This programme is the first of a new series, which aims to include matter more varied than can be brought under the heading of any of the forms into which broadcasting now falls. This first collection of items starts with a little play - virtually a monologue - by Katherine Mansfield, a study of the inner self of a charwoman, played by Margaret Yarde, who has become famous on the stage by her interpretation of just such roles. It is followed by the best-known of the Idylls of Theocritus, in which the Psalm of Adonis is set in the chatter of women who lived in Alexandria more than two thousand years ago. Hugh Bradford's ballet, The Jackdaw and the Pigeons, has been done at Sadler's Wells, and the music has been broadcast, but tonight's arrangement, by which he will play it as a pianoforte solo with spoken monologue, is new. The programme also includes Arthur Bliss's song, "Madam Noy," which Anne Thursfield will sing to the accompaniment of a curious combination - flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp, viola and double bass.
BERTINI'S DANCE BAND, from THE EMPRESS
BALLROOM, WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL
