From ' When Two or Three,' page 48

Directed by Frank Cantell

Relayed from The Futurist Theatre, Birmingham

by ERNEST LUSH

Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
Relayed from The Pavilion,
Bournemouth
Overture and Dream Pantomimo
Hansel and Gretel ... .Humperdinck
Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad Butterworth Butterworth was one of the enthusiastic spirits in the recent revival of English folk song music, and, like all the young musicians who found their interest enlisted in that cause, incorporated something of the folk song element into most of his own music. It has thus a very distinctively English character, although the folk music influence, in his case, goes hand in hand with a well-developed sense of orchestral effect, and with a quite original fertility of invention and resource. Although he was only twenty-eight when the War turned his attention from music, and only thirty-one when he was killed in action on the Western front, he had already made a definite mark on English music. Among the freshest and most natural-sounding music which he left are the two song-cycles on the Housman poems and an orchestral rhapsody which has the same name; intended originally as an epilogue to the songs, it is now more often played than they are sung, as a separate orchestral piece. Housman's poetry has been set by many composers-so many that he must spend a big share of his time in dealing with correspondence about them. But their atmosphere has nowhere been more beautifully illumined by music than in the settings by Butterworth. (Soloist, JANE MARCUS> )
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At The Organ of The Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

Conductor, TOM MORGAN
LEONARD SALISBURY (Bass)