From ' When Two or Three,' page 33

Mr. A. G. STREET
The ' farmer-milkman-author-broadcaster' gives another of his popular talks on the changing face of the countryside. He is an invaluable friend to the countryman exiled in the city, and an invaluable guide to the townsman who can only make occasional visits to the country.

Relayed from The Palace, Erdington, Birmingham

by CECIL Dixon
These two pieces arc in Debussy's early vein, and, charming as they are, do not yet do more than suggest the new translucent technique, the hitherto undreamt of beauties that Debussy brought to his later work, and which were to affect the outlook of an entire generation of composers. At this stage, however Debussy had not completely shaken off the influence of the Grieg-Massenet school of pianoforte music.
Yet his first efforts, from which these two pieces are taken, are full of character and real, even if early. Debussy. They were written between
1888 and 1890, while Debussy was still in his twenties, and though they seem, today, innocuous enough, were composed at about the same. time as two works which were submitted to the Institute in accordance with tho terms of the Prix de Rome, and which were even then giving the conservative and rather shocked members a great deal to think about. The works m question were the cantata, The Blessed Damozel, adelightfurand very harmless setting of Rossetti's poem, and the orchestral piece Le Printemps
The first was accepted with considerable misgiving by the Institute, but the latter was rejected as quite unplayable.

Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
HAROLD FIELDING (Violin)
Relayed from The Pavilion, Bournemouth
Harold Fielding, one of the youngest of English violinists - he is only just sixteen - is also one of the most promising. He has already appeared in public at important concerts with distinguished success, and has broadcast three times. This afternoon he is playing a Vivaldi Concerto, which displays not only his powers, but his good taste. Antonio Vivaldi was himself a violinist of great fame in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and wrote several concertos and other works for his instrument. Bach was particularly attracted to Vivaldi's music, and he arranged some of the concertos for clavier or organ. In one case he developed a Vivaldi concerto into a concerto (the one in A minor) for four claviers and a quartet of strings.
For a long time this was held to have been, not an arrangement, but an original work of Bach's.
This is one of the loveliest conceptions of Spring in music, and, at the same time, one of the most beautiful of Dclius's shorter pieces, the other being Summer Night on lite River. It dates from 1012, and was first performed at a Philharmonic concert in January, 1914, under Mengelberg. It is based upon two themes, in one of which the Cuckoo Call can be heard, while the other is taken from a Norwegian folk-song.
The drama of the Norwegian poet Bjornson, Sigurd Jorsalfar (Sigurd the Crusader), is a tale of Norway in the time of the Crusades. Sigurd and his brother, Eystcin, sons of the great Harald, are fierce rivals, each reigning over part of Norway. At the end of the play they become reconciled, and dedicate themselves jointly to the service of their country. Grieg wrote incidental music for the production of the play, afterwards recasting several of the movements in the form of a very effective Suite, second in popularity only to the two Suites from his music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt. The three movements have all the vividly picturesque manner of Grieg.

At the Organ of The Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

Directed by John Bridge

Listeners will be hearing the ninth relay from this stronghold of Variety in Manchester since the microphone was first placed there in April last year. These relays, enlivened by the ' atmosphere ' of a full house determined to get its full store of enjoyment, form a welcome occasional alternative to studio variety. The Manchester Hippodrome celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary three years ago, and has welcomed in its time such famous figures as Sarah Bernhardt , Ellen Terry , and Pavlova.

(This is an original and hitherto unpublished poem selected from, the entries sent in by listeners for the B.B.C. Poetry Competition)

Roy Fox and his BAND, relayed from The Kit-
Cat Restaurant
(Shipping Forecast at 11.0)