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Organised by the Trustees of The Treloar Crippled Children's
Christmas Hamper Fund
Relayed from The Guildhall
Triumphant entry of the Civic Procession-
The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, accompanied by the Metropolitan Mayors, with music by the City of London Police Band
Speech of welcome by Lt.-Col. the Honble. FREDERICK LAWSON , D.S.O., M.C.
Reply by the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor of London, Alderman Sir STEPHEN KILLIK
Community Singing, conducted by JOSEPH HAY
City of London Police Band (By kind permission of Lt.-Col. Sir Hugh Turnbull , K.B.E.). Director of Music, W. BARTLETT , M.B.E.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Lawson
Unknown:
Alderman Sir
Unknown:
Stephen Killik
Conducted By:
Joseph Hay
Unknown:
Sir Hugh Turnbull
Music:
W. Bartlett

(Section E)
Led by MARIE WILSON
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
FRANK PHILLIPS (baritone)
ORCHESTRA
Overture, Russian and Ludmilla. Glinka Berceuse (Jocelyn Suite No. 2) Godard
Glinka was the father of modern Russian music, and this opera, his second, was one of the first big works of a reaily national character which the country produced. The tale is founded on an early poetical romance by Pushkin, and the poet himself had agreed to make it into an opera libretto for Glinka. Almost immediately afterwards, however, he was killed in a duel, and the libretto, as the composer used it, was the work of no fewer than five different hands. The story is a blend of fairy lore and old Russian legend. Ludmilla, the daughter of a Grand Duke, has three suitors, of whom she prefers the Knight Russian. She is carried off by magic powers, and the whole story is taken up with Russian's heroic conflict with these and his overcoming of one dread magic spell after another to win his bride in the end.
The opera was revived in England with great artistic success at the season of Russian opera given by Sir Thomas Beecham at the Lyceum Theatre three years ago.
Andre Wonnser 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 Prodigue, which was first produced in Palis in 1890, and at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, in 1891. No more popular item of programme music is performed on the concert platform than the.suite made from this charming ballet. These ' Impressions of the Open Air ' are less known, but characteristic of a composer for whom melody was a requisite ingredient' of his music.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marie Wilson
Conducted By:
Joseph Lewis
Baritone:
Frank Phillips
Unknown:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Andre Wonnser

A Play for Broadcasting
By E. M. DELAFIELD
Here is a very human little thriller with a new kind of thrill. There's a hairdresser—' a harmless little chap keen on his job, devoted to his kiddie '. There's a wife who drinks and nags him, and neglects': his child. In a quarrel with her husband she is killed.
He hides the body. What then ?
In putting her cards on the table
Miss Delafield gets; suspense of a novel kind. You feel that the body is certain to be-found, and you hope it won't be.
1 Human is it inay be, this is not a play for nervous listeners who may be upset by its thrills and its suspense.
The Little Boy' will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow night)

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
E. M. Delafield

The Town of Ugly People', by J. G. TEMPLE
There is a distinctive quality in a short story by J. G. Temple . He has originality and a vivid style. Short, quick sentences that get there. No waste of words. And he has the art of making them convincing and arresting your attention at the opening and holding it until the end.
His ' Meeting in Scotland' made him many friends in November; The Town of Ugly. People ' should make him many more tonight.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. G. Temple
Story By:
J. G. Temple

III (Ninth Season)
To be given before an audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House
A Hindemith Programme
IRENE KOHLER (pianoforte)
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section D)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conducted by PAUL HINDEMITH Concert Music (for Pianoforte, Brass and Harps)
Composed in 1930, this work was commissioned by Mrs. Coolidge and had its first performance at Chicago in August of the same year. Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge founded an annual Festival in 1918, in which the foremost European, as well as American, artists have taken part year by year ; besides commissioning works, particularly chamber music, for these, Mrs. Coolidge instituted an annual prize of 1,000 dollars for a chamber music work, and that, too, has frequently gone to European composers.
Hindemith's piece, laid out with rigid simplicity, is for pianoforte solo. accompanied by brass instruments (horns, trumpets, trombones, and tuba) and two harps.
Symphonie, Mathis der Maler (Mathias the Painter)
1. Engelkonzert (Concert of Angels); 2. Grablegung (Interment); 3. Versuchung des heiligen Antonius (Temptation of Saint Anthony)

Contributors

Pianoforte:
Irene Kohler
Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Conducted By:
Paul Hindemith

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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