by WALTER VALE
Relayed from ALL SAINTS, MARGARET STREET
, at 1.0

By CHRISTOPHER STONE

Directed by Guy DAINES
(From Edinburgh)

News by STEPHEN KING-HALL

SCHUBERT'S VIOLIN AND PIANOFORTE MUSIC
Played by AMINA LUCCHESI and MARGERY CUNNINGHAM
Introduction and Seven Variations on an original
Theme

Mr. C. H. MIDDLETON : ' Fresh Vegetables for Winter Food '
(Continued overleaf)

Mr. JAMES AGATE
MR. JAMES AGATE 'S trenchant and amusing review of the contemporary theatre is one of the most valued features cf broadcast criticism. Mr. Agate recently received a triumphant vindication from listeners. who testified in thousands of letters that news and views on the latest London productions are welcomed in all parts of the country.

Conducted by CHARLES LEGGETI
PHYLLIS SCOTT and JOHN RORKE
In Songs and Duets
THE most popularly successful English opera ever written, The Bohemian Girl, was produced in London in 1843, and it is safe to say that it has been in constant performance ever since. At least, it has never been out of the repertory of English opera companies, all of whom have at one time or another discovered that it is t.he best box-office proposition in the operatic list.
Michael William Balfe was born in Dublin in 1808, and lived to 1882. Besides this one, he wrote a number of other operas, all of them successful in their day, but now mostly forgotten. Balfe made a good deal of money, however, and retired in due time to an ample estate in Hertfordshire, which is more than most composers of English operas are ever again likely to be able to do.
PHYLLIS SCOTT and JOHN RORKE

BAND March, With Sword and Lance - Starice
Overture, The Bohemian Girl - Balfe
BAND Serenade, Les Millions d'Arlequin - Drigo
Paraphrase, Die Lorelei - Nesvabda
PHYLLIS SCOTT and JOHN RORKE BAND Selection of English Melodies, The Rose - Myddleton

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN

BEATRICE HARRISON (Violoncello)
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section D)
(Leader, ARTHUR CATTERALL ) Conductor, ADRIAN BOULT
BYRON never intended his Manfred to be performed in the theatre. He himself said in writing to his publisher, 'at least, I have made it impossible for the stage, for which my intercourse with Drury Lane has given me the greatest contempt.' This, however, did not deter Schumann from writing an overture and incidental music for the drama, of which he had so high an admiration that on one occasion on reading the poem to a friend, he burst into tears and was too overcome to go on with the reading.
One critic, indeed, drew a comparison between the character of Manfred and that of Schumann's own-a characteristic exaggeration common to the romantic-minded critics of those times. This overture, therefore, may be considered rather as a tone poem, musically illustrating the spirit of Byron's fated hero than the customary overture to a drama.
HUGO WOLF was essentially a song-writer, and as such, he seems only now to be coming into his own. Some say that he is the greatest song-writer since Schubert, and it is a queer circumstance that, like Schubert, he died at an early age. Beyond his songs, of which he wrote several hundred, he did not compose much in other forms and then practically only chamber music. This piece, for example, was written originally as a string quartet and was subsequently scored for a small orchestra.
Wolf's was not a particularly happy nature; indeed, his morbidity subsequently led him into a state which necessitated his removal to a mental institution, where he died. This Serenade, however, reveals nothing of that; rather is it a bright and rhythmic tone-picture of an Italian landscape.
BEATRICE HARRISON has played this concerto so frequently, and in the mind of the public it is so intimately associated with her, that she mav fairly claim it as her own. The work dates from 1921 and was first performed in Vienna. It is played straight through without a break, a characteristic departure from convention which Delius has never hesitated to take when it suits him.
BEETHOVEN'S Eighth Symphony is usually referred to as 'The Little Symphony in F.' It is particularly conciso in form and is from end to end an exhibition of high spirits. As a matter of fact, Beethoven at that time had no great cause to be high-spirited at all, in spite of the fact that he had been spending the summer at a watering place in Bohemia and was, at, the time, on a visit to his youngest brother, who was a chemist at Linz, a town on the Danube.
Johann, who seems to have been a quarrelsome fellow. was having some sort of trouble at home, and the object of Beethoven's visit was to endeavour to put things right. Apparently, Johann resented this interference and gave his elder brother a most unpleasant time. It would seem, therefore, that this symphony took on the nature of an antidote or safety-valve by means of which Beethoven could make a mental escape from the strain of bickering with his brother.

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