From page 15 of ' When Two or Three'
At the Organ of The Regal Cinema,
Kingston-on-Thames
Directed by HENRY HALL
(Under the direction of JOHAN HOCK)
ORREA PERNEL (violin)
BEATRICE HEWITT (pianoforte)
Relayed from
Queen's College, Birmingham
The Rev. A. STUART McNAIRN , F.R.G.S. : Peru, the Home of the Potato' i
HARCOURT WILLIAMS
(Leader, Alfred Barker )
Conductor, T. H. Morrison
(Leader, A. Rossi )
Under the direction of Emilio Colombo
Relayed from
The Hotel Metropole, London
Massenet's Thais is based upon Anatole France 's well-known story of early Christian times in Egypt. The ' Meditation ' occurs in the opera between the evening of the visit of the Monk Athanacl to the luxurious home of Thais, and the morning of her conversion and repentance.
Directed by HENRY HALL
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers
Special Notices connected with Government and other Public Services
D. F. TOVEY , Mus.Doc. (Prof. of Music, Edinburgh University)
(From Edinburgh)
C. H. MIDDLETON !
The Foundations of English Music
Under the direction of Sir RICHARD RUNCIMAN TERRY
My Ladye Nevells Booke (William Byrd ) played by RUDOLPH DOLMETSCH
(harpsichord)
Sellingers Rownde Munsers Almaine
The Tennthe Pavian: Mr. W. Peter The Galliarde to the Tennthe Pavian
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section E)
(Led by LAURANCE TURNER )
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
The plays of Shakespeare, which by their nature call for incidental music, have always attracted composers, not only in England, but in Europe, as this programme tends to show.
Only one of these items is from an opera-Nicolai's Overture. The opera libretto in this case does not follow Shakespeare's text very closely, but the comedy spirit is given plenty of rein in the music.
Massenet's Suite is a series of studies unconnected either with opera or stage presentation.
The remainder of the items in the programme were in each case specially written for performance with stage productions. Sir Edward German 's Henry VIII music was written for a presentation of the play by Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in 1892. The incidental music included also the famous Henry VIII Dances , and this fortunate commission went far to make the name of the young composer.
Quilter's As You Like It music dates from 1922. His settings of the songs for the same production are continually sung, and are great favourites with singers.
Coleridge-Taylor's Othello music dates from 1911, when it was written for Sir Herbert Tree 's production of the play at His Majesty's Theatre.
HARRY LEADER and his BAND
MATTHEW BOULTON
Assisted by MARGARET YARDE in his own comedy
'His Rest Day'
Where is It ?
Queries in Quatrain
An Aural Problem for Listeners
Devised by GERALD COCK
The solutions will be broadcast at
9.25 p.m.
LEONARD HENRY comedian
Weather Forecast including Forecast for Shipping, and Second General News Bulletin
Sir NORMAN ANGELL
(Leader, MONTAGUE BREARLEY)
Reminiscences of the Imperial Ballet, the cradle of Russian dancing as all Europ; knows it today ... the training school of Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina , Lopokova, Fokine, Massine and Nijinsky, glamorous names of the theatre ... the genius of Diaghilev, Bakst and Igor Stravinsky ... recalled by Lydia Lopokova , who studied and won fame in the company of these immortals, and illustrated with the music of some of the ballets in which she danced.
Read by PATRIC CURWEN
HARRY Roy and his BAND
Relayed from The May Fair Hotel
