From The Piccadilly Hotel

By CHRISTOPHER STONE

by ERNEST LUSH

Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
ADELA VERNE (Pianoforte)
From The Pavilion, Bournemouth
The opera The Flying Dutchman was first produced in Dresden in 1843. The overture roughly epitomizes the story, which is based on the picturesque legend of a Dutch sea-captain who, encountering a furious gale while he was tiying to round the Cape of Good Hope, swore that he would achieve his purpose, though it took him all eternity. The devil, overhearing, took him a.t his word and condemned him to sail the seas until the Day of Judgment. Only a woman, whose love would last until death, could release him; so, as the sole concession to the awful severity of his punishment, he is permitted to go ashore once in every seven years in order that he may seek and win such a. woman. The opera opens just at the end of one of these seven-year terms.
When Dvorak was offered the Directorship of the New York National Conservatory of Music he accepted it and remained there, greatly appreciated, for three years, absorbing at the same time a. flood of national impressions. Of these he made good use in a number of works of that period, particularly in the New World Symphony, one of the most brilliant symphonies in the whole repertory.

At The Organ of The Tower Ballroom,
Blackpool
(From, North Regional)

PIANOFORTE WORKS OF LISZT
Played by MAURICE REEVE
Les jeux d'eau de la Villa d'Este (The Fountains of the Villa d'Este)
Fantasy and Fugue on a Motive made up of the Notes B.A.C.H.

Mr. CEDRIC BELFRAGI ┊

Mr. A. G. STREET: A Farmer's Thoughts of the Old Year'

Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey is an outstanding example of the writer of genius who is forced to limit his output to the demands of journalism. His collected works fill sixteen volumes, and contain passages of great beauty and critical insight; but his reputation with the reading public rests almost entirely upon his ' Confessions of an Opium Eater' and the delicious satire of Murder as a Fine Art.' This erratic genius should provide material for an absorbing and amusing talk.