From ' When Two or Three,' page 93

Conducted by Anton
Relayed from The Brixton Astoria

Directed by Frank Cantell
(From Birmingham)

MABEL RITCHIE (Soprano)
THE GRINKE TRIO:
Frederick Grinke (Violin) ; Florence Hooton
(Violoncello) ; Dorothy Manley (Pianoforte)

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Furt wängler : Overture, The Hebrides (Mendelssohn). The British Symphony Orchestra—Solo Violin, Joseph Szigcti : Violiu Concerto in J), Op. 01 (Beethoven)—1. Allegroma non troppo ; 2. Larghetto ; 3. Hondo allegro. The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert. Coates: Symphony Ko. 41 in 0 (Jupiter)
(Mozart)—3rd Movement, Menuetto ; 4th ' Movement, Molto Allegro. The London
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert, Coates: Petrouskha—Ballet Music (Stravinsky) -4th Tableau. The Fair towards evening ; Nursemaid's Dance ; Gypsies' Dance ; Coachman's Dance ; Masked Revelry ; Petroushka is slain ; His ghost haunts the Magician.

Relayed from The Carlton Hotel

by ELENA DANIELI (Soprano)
MICHAEL HEAD (Baritone)

Italian Light Music
Rossini and Respighi between them share the honours of this programme so far as the number of times their names appear is concerned. And not without justice; for while Rossini is by far the most genial, the most humorous, and the most sparkling of all the Italian masters-scintillating as many others of them were-Respighi (of a later and living generation) can at least assert that he is aware of it. His brilliant treatment of Rossini's gay tunes in his arrangement of them in the ballet of La Boutique Fantasque testifies not only to his admiration of the great jester, but to his apt ability to do him justice. For the inclusion of the remainder of the items in a programme of Italian Light Music Mr. Walford Hyden 's judgment is by now realised to be impeccable.

(Section C)
(Led by Marie Wilson)
Conducted by Joseph Lewis
This march is founded on a famous old Hungarian tune, the Rakoczy March. When Berlioz first conducted it in Budapest the enthusiasm with which it was received developed almost into a riot. Berlioz later included the march in his Damnation of Faust,
The first of these songs from Berlioz's Faust is the famous 'Song of the Flea,' with which Mephistopheles entertains the students in Auerbach's cellar in Leipzig, where he is introducing Faust to the riotous world of youth. The second song is sung by Mephistopheles in the next scene, which is a meadow on the banks of the Elbe. He has put Faust to sleep, and with the aid of the sylphs which he summons he is about to rejuvenate the aged scholar. The third aria is the equally famous serenade which Mephistopheles sings to Marguerite with the sinister object of luring her to her doom.
This is an early work of Strauss, who was only twenty-one when he wrote it. At the time he was assistant conductor at Meinengen, under von Bulow. Naturally he wrote it hoping that von Bulow would play it. As, however, the great man did not seem to care for it, Strauss dedicated it, or rededicated it, after a few years, to Eugen d'Albert. It had its first performance in 1890 in good company, for in the same programme the first performance of a far more famous work of Strauss, Death and Transfiguration, was given.
(An article on the work will be found on page 423)

Serenata di joi o danzo (Iris). .Mascagni Roses from the South.... .Johann Strauss Intermezzo, Prunella Leslie Bridgewater Suite, Impressions de pleine air... Wormser
1. Clair de Lune; 2. Idylle Matinale; 3. Paysage; 4. Au pays des neiges - Danse des promis
At the close of the year 1899 Sir Edward German was commissioned by Marie Tempest to write the incidental music for the play English Nell by Anthony Hope (who wrote it for Marie Tempest), which was produced by Frank Curzon at the Prince of Wales's Theatre during the following year.
W. H. Scott, German's biographer, has well said that the three dances 'are thoroughly English, conceived in the happiest vein, and charged with that fragrant essence of the greenwood which, a few years later, went to the making of the composer's light opera, Marie England.'
Andre Wormser was born in Paris in 1851 and died there in 1926. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and at the age of twenty-four won the Prix de Rome with an opera, Clytemnestre. Wormser's most popular work, however, is the music to the wordless play L'Enfant Prodiyue, which was first produced in Paris in 1890 and at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, in 1891.