From page 60 of ' When Two or Three'
Act I of Puccini's Opera
' Manon Lescaut '
Cast
CHORUS and ORCHESTRA of La Scala,
Milan
Conductor, LORENZO MOLAJOLI
by R. H. CLIFFORD SMITH
Relayed from Glasgow Cathedral
Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by LESLIE HEWARD
MURIEL SOTHAM (contralto)
Leff Pouishnoff (pianoforte) : Prelude in B flat (Rachmaninov) ; Impromptu, Op. 142, No. 2 (Schubert)
Elena Gerhardt (mezzo-soprano):
Romance (Rosamunde) (Schubert) ; Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Cradle Song) (with viola obbligato) (Brahms) ; Vor dem Fenster (At the Window) (Brahms)
Walter Gieseking (pianoforte) : Arabesques Nos. i and 2 (Debussy)
Leader, FRANK THOMAS
HELEN JUST (violoncello)
HETTY BOLTON (pianoforte)
Conductor, R. S. HOWELLS
WILFRID THOMAS (bass-baritone)
Directed by HENRY HALL
including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers
JOHN BAKER , D.Phil (Demonstrator in Zoology in the University of Oxford)
S. R. LlTTLEWOOD
Under the direction of Edward J. Dent, Mus. B. University Professor of Music at Cambridge
Handel's Sonatas
Played by Carl Dolmetsch (flute a bee)
Rudolph Dolmetsch (harpsichord)
Sonata, Op. I, No. 4 in A minor
Larghetto - Allegro. Adagio - Allegro
Sonata, Op. I, No. 7 in C
Larghetto - Allegro. Larghetto - A tempo di Gavotta
Eric Newton
The object of this new series is to explain the significance of modern art and the reasons for the wide disagreement between modernist and traditionalist.
This evening and in five subsequent talks Mr. Eric Newton, art critic of the Manchester Guardian, is to discuss art in general and the aim and duty of the artist. In his seventh talk he will ask the man in the street what he thinks about it all, and in five remaining broadcasts he will put certain authorities of contrasting views in the witness box and examine and cross-examine them.
As so many references will be made in these talks to some particular works of art or some particular artist's technique, listeners would do well to read beforehand the new pamphlet "The Approach To Art", obtainable at the B.B.C. Publications Department, price 6d, 7d. post free.
Discussion Group leaders will find this series explained on pages 21 and 22 of the green pamphlet "Talks for Discussion Groups, Winter 1934-5", obtainable from the B.B.C. Publications Department, price 2d. post free.
Here is the first of a series of twenty-minute talks in which young men of all classes, and perhaps some young women, will be given the opportunity to express their philosophy of life and their outlook on the world and on the future. After all, they or at least their generation will be directing our affairs sooner or later. It is absorbingly interesting to know their ideas ; both what they make of the world, and what they would make of it.
by CECIL DIXON
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
THE ENGLISH ENSEMBLE:
Marjorie Hayward (violin); Rebecca Clarke (viola); May Mukle (violoncello) ; Kathleen Long (pianoforte)
THE GROSVENOR HOUSE DANCE BAND
Conducted by SYDNEY LIPTON
Relayed from Grosvenor House,
Park Lane