' Cuts and Rises'—V
An Eye-Witness Account by HOWARD MARSHALL
From Lord's Cricket Ground
MAJESTIC ORCHESTRA
From THE HOTEL MAJESTIC, ST. ANNE'S-ON-SEA
Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
ION AULAY (Pianoforte)
From THE PAVILION, BOURNEMOUTH
WHEN Salammbo, Gustave Flau bert's story of Carthage, published in 1862, came into the hands] of Mussorgsky, he at once saw the possibilities of making an opera out of so congenial a subject and began work on it. He did not, however, get far with the music, and presently abandoned all thought of finishing it. What ho
- had already written was, however, used up in various ways ; for instance, this part of the music was transformed into a tone picture with a definite programme. The first title given to the work was The Eve of St. John on the bare Mountain, but Mussorgsky himself usually spoke of it as The Witches. The mountain referred to is said to be Monte Carmo in the Italian Alps, and that it is peculiar for its extreme bareness and lack of any sort of shrub-apparently a most appropriate place for a witches' Sabbath. The programme attached to the music concerns such an occasion. Unearthly voices are heard coming from beneath the ground, spirits of darkness appear. followed by Chernobog. the evil god. They hold Satanic revels, but when at dawn the village bell is heard in the distance, the dark spirits all (disappear and the music ends in tranquillity and deep peace.
At THE ORGAN of THE ASTORIA CINEMA,
CORSTORPHINE
(From Edinburgh)
An Eye-Witness Account by HOWARD MARSHALL
From Lord's Cricket Ground
HAYDN'S PIANOFORTE MUSIC
Played by KENDALL TAYLOR
Sonata No. 20, in F
Mr. GERALD HEARD
Mr. A. G. STREET: 'The Law of Trespass'
'TRESPASSERS will be Prosecuted' are words of direful import to walkers, riders, campers, and many others who explore a strange country-side. There would be fewer trespassers and fewer prosecutions if the law on the subject were generally known. This talk explains it.
Directed by HENRY HALL
WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section C)
(Led by F. WEIST HILL)
Conducted by CONSTANT LAMBERT
WILLIAM WALTON 'S Portsmouth Point is already familiar to listeners, who will remember that its programme is suggested by an eighteenth century water-colour of the famous quay by Rowlandson. Walton's music has in turn suggested to McKnight Kauffer , the modern artist who so brilliantly decorates our poster picture gallery, a design for the drop curtain used recently at the Savoy Theatre.
Erik Satie , who has not been very long dead, figured rather as the bad boy of French music in his day. He was never deeply instructed in the complexities of music, yet he contrived by a kind of intellectual prankishness to achieve a reputation with the slenderest of equipments, and even to anticipate by a number of years the atonal experiments of the generation that succeeded his.
Thomas Roseingrave came of a musical
English family, but he spent much of his life in Dublin. He was a skilled musician, some of whose work deserves to be better known, but otherwise a most eccentric fellow. It is said that a love affair which miscarried sent him a little off his mental balance.
Walter Leigh is a young English composer of whom much is expected. A work of his has just been performed at the International Festival of Contemporary Music at Vienna.
The Lord of Burleigh is a ballet, the action of which has been made up from incidents and characters in Tennyson's works, and the music from various pieces by Mendelssohn.
The Krakoviak is by now very well known to listeners. As a ballet the Fete Polonaise, from which Krakoviak is taken, Glinka's music becomes doubly charming.
MAURICE WINNICK and his ORCHESTRA, from
THE CARLTON HOTEL
