From 'When Two or Three,' page 21

RECORDS
By CHRISTOPHER STONE

Directed by Guy Daines
(From Edinburgh)

From WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Conducted by Horace Fellowes
Relayed from The Pavilion Gardens, Buxton.
(Noith Regional Programme)

Directed by John Bridge
(North Regional Programme)

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

(Strings only)
(Leader, FRANK THOMAS)
Conducted by REGINALD REDMAN
MARGARET WILKINSON (Soprano)
(West Regional Programme)
BORN at Brighton in 1879, Frank Bridge studied violin and composition at the Royal College, winning a scholarship there at the age of twenty, and continuing his studies for four years under the late Sir Charles Stanford. He quickly achieved distinction as a viola player, and had the rare honour of taking part at one time in the old Joachim Quartet as deputy for Professor Wirth. Thoroughly at home in chamber music, whether as performer or composer, he is regarded as among those who have done much to rais3 the position of present-day British music to the place of honour which it holds; he is known, too. as the composer of many fine songs.
His orchestral work leans to the pictorial and descriptive side of music, and most of his orchestral pieces have names which indicate the impression they would convey. His Suite for orchestra, The Sea, for instance, when selected by the Carnegie adjudicators for publication under their scheme, was spoken of as ' a striking piece of tone-painting.'
The Suite to be played this evening, although it has no such descriptive title, has much of the same picturesqueness and is laid out to make the very most of the best qualities of the orchestra it employs.

KEITH FALKNER (Baritone)
LISA MINGHETTI (Violin)
KEITH FALKNER , one of the most popular baritones of our time, has been singing ever since he became a chorister, at the age of nine, at New College, Oxford, under Sir Hugh Allen. After serving as a R.N.A.S. pilot during the war, he studied with Albert Garcia at the Royal College, singing also in the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral. Further study with Plunket Greene , with Lierhammer in Vienna, and Madame Dessert in Paris, helped to make him the artist of wide culture he is; Vienna, Prague, Paris and the United States have all welcomed him, as well as the great English Festivals and Concerts. 10.30 From ' Bric-a-Brac,' by W. E. Henley, read by Miss NESTA SAWYER

THE B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA, directed by HENRY HALL
(Shipping Forecast at 11.0)