Miss E. M. DELAFIELD : ' Books with Happy Endings'
(From Plymouth)
From THE PICCADILLY HOTEL
By CHRISTOPHER STONE
RECEPTION TEST
Mr. J. R. FIRTH : What we say and what we write: Talking: The Tongue Languages-I, One man in his time plays many parts'
Professor WINIFRED Cullis , C.B.E. : 'How
Food is taken round the Body'
Conductors :
Sir DAN GODFREY
RUTLAND BOUGHTON
GORDON BRYAN (Pianoforte)
From The Pavilion, Bournemouth
(Conducted by THE COMPOSER)
(From Bournemouth)
Rutland Boughton's Deirdre Symphony is in three symphonic movements, an Allegro, a Slow Movement and a Finale, but is not entirely orthodox in its construction. Rather it is governed by the dramatic idea which informs the work. The story of Deirdre is the most familiar of the ' Three Sorrows of Story-telling' which, dating from about the boginning of the Christian era, are known as the Ulster Cycle in the catalogue of Irish legendary tales. Boughton's symphony is a musical conception of Deirdre herself in relation to her experiences. The first movement pictures Deirdre the young girl, virginal, wild as the mountains in which she lives, destined to be King Conochar's queen. But she has seen the young Naisi, son of Usnar, and her heart is lost to him. The young lovers run away together, and the second movement is the music of their consummated joy.
In the third movement the King tyrannously prevails; but in vain, for Deirdre chooses death with her lover rather than life with King Conochar. The composer, however, desires that listeners should, having read it, put all this aside and regard the symphony as having affinity with the lyrical, rather than the realistic, uses of music in music-drama.
At The Organ of The Beaufort Cinema,
Washwood Heath , Birmingham
HAYDN PIANOFORTE TRIOS
Played by THE BUDAPEST TRIO
Trio No. 7 in E minor
1. Allegro moderato; 2. Andante; 3. Rondo:
Presto
Mr. C. R. F. ENGLEBACH ; ' ' Engineering '
Mr. J. P. Ross TAYLOR : The Scottish Breeder'
Professor H. J. LASKi (Professor of Political
Science in the University of London)
By Mr. ALEXANDER BRENT SMITH
Mr. HANNS VISCHER : 'West Africa'
A Programme of National Melodies of the British
Isles
Freely transcribed into Fantasies by LESLIE BRIDGEWATER and played by THE LESLIE BRIDGEWATER QUINTET
