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C. H. MIDDLETON
This evening Mr. C. H. Middleton is to bring Mr. A. E. Burgess to the microphone to continue his talk on lawns. Mr. Burgess's last talk brought a large volume of correspondence, and he promised listeners that he would continue the subject in the spring. This evening he will deal mainly with the new lawn, which is sown at this time of the year.

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Middleton

Contemporaries of Bach and Handel
3. Chamber Music
DAVID WISE (solo violin)
THE STRATTON STRING QUARTET:
George Strttton (violin), Carl Taylor (violin), Watson Forbes (viola),
John Moore (violoncello)
ERNEST LusH (harpsichord)
Violin Concerto in G, Op. 7, No. 2
Antonio Vivaldi (died 1748)
1. Allegro assai; 2. Largo cantabile;
3. Allegro.

Contributors

Violin:
George Strttton
Violin:
Carl Taylor
Violin:
Watson Forbes
Viola:
John Moore

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Presented by AUSTEN CROOM-JOHNSON with IAN STEWART
AUSTEN CROOM-JOHNSON
ERIC SIDAY
REGINALD LEOPOLD
BILL SHAKESPEARE
ALBERT HARRIS
JAMES DYRENFORTH and ELISABETH WELCH

Contributors

Presented By:
Austen Croom-Johnson
Unknown:
Ian Stewart
Unknown:
Austen Croom-Johnson
Unknown:
Eric Siday
Unknown:
Reginald Leopold
Unknown:
Bill Shakespeare
Unknown:
Albert Harris
Unknown:
James Dyrenforth
Unknown:
Elisabeth Welch

GLADYS RIPLEY
(contralto)
The music of Mendelssohn has a close affinity in spirit to the poetry of Tennyson, and what Elisabeth Wordsworth remarked of the poet might equally well apply to the composer : ' The absence of pain and gloom through all Tennyson's poetry is very remarkable ; he seems, as a rule, to shrink from facing the ghastly, the horrible, the eccentric, or the profoundly tragic. But he is completely in his element in a well-ordered, beautiful, cultured world, a world of broad spaces of light, rich crops and stately palaces' If Mendelssohn failed to express the deeper human emotions to the extent of Brahms, and lacked the heroic build of Beethoven, he has earned a place in the sun as an exquisite miniaturist who created with magic and unrivalled pen the atmosphere of fairyland. And for this alone he deserves immortality.

Contributors

Contralto:
Gladys Ripley

National Programme Daventry

About National Programme

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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