From page 69 of ' When Two or Three '
@ for Farmers and Shipping
At the Organ of The Regal, Kingstonon-Thames
Music and Movement for Very
Young Children
ANN DRIVER
Directed by ALFRED VAN DAM
Relayed from The Troxy Cinema
20TH CENTURY BAND
Under the direction of JOHAN HOCK
Relayed from
Queen's College, Birmingham
JOHAN HOCK'S CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Leader, Norris Stanley
Conductor, JOHAN HOCK
KATHLEEN FRISE SMITH (pianoforte)
This fine, romantic Concerto was written in 1785 when Mozart was at the height of his powers. His father had just come to stay with him and his wife in Vienna, and the very day after his arrival (that is, on February 11) heard his son play this new composition at one of his own subscription concerts. That same night the delighted father wrote to his daughter : ' Wolfgang gave a new and first-rate piano concerto at which the copyist was still working yesterday when we arrived, and your brother had not had time even to play through the rondo, as he had to look over the copyist's work. The (passionately excited) Concerto is in D minor'. Leopold's eyes, he told Marianne, had filled with tears of happiness at Wolfgang's music and his playing of it. The very next evening he had an even greater joy, for Wolfgang invited Haydn to meet his father, and it was on this occasion that the elder master told Leopold : ' I declare to you before God, as a man of honour, that your son is the greatest composer that I know, either personally or by reputation; he has taste, and beyond that the most consummate knowledge of the art of composition '. Incidentally, this visit to Vienna was the last occasion on which Leopold Mozart saw his famous son.
Haydn's so-called' Schoolmaster ' Symphony dates from 1774, two years later than the ' Farewell', ', but eighteen to twenty years earlier than his best-known symphonies, the magnificent ' Salomon ' set. It is a typical work of his Esterhaz period.
British' and American Dance Bandu
Leader, A. Rossi
Under the direction of EMILIO COLOMBO
Relayed from
The Hotel Metropole, London
including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers
'The Healthy Man' by a Doctor
C. H. MIDDLETON
This evening Mr. Middleton is to continue his talk of a fortnight ago on seasonal topics--especially late sowings, now that May is getting on. He will also take the opportunity to answer a few of the hundreds of listeners' questions that swell his mail-bag.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
with BRIAN LAWRENCE
H. E. PlGGOTT
Organised by The British Broadcasting
Corporation
Second Concert
Relayed from Queen's Hall,
Langham Place, W.I
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappdl and Co., L
Weather Forecast, Forecast for Shipping and News
.'It Isn't Done'
ARCHIBALD LYALL
Here is the first broadcast in an imaginative and amusing series which should have a wide appeal because they are to show ourselves as others see us. It seems that Mars has sent an anthropologist here, paying him a fat sum in Martian money to broadcast back to Mars his impressions of the strange inhabitants of the British Isles.
Various well-known people have been showing him round. And this evening we shall see what he has made of us under the guidance of Archibald Lyall , who broadcast last week on Jugoslavia. A better guide cannot be imagined, for since Lyall left Oxford he has travelled in every country in Europe and seen for himself how taboos and customs no more peculiar than our own are accepted by other countries in all seriousness.
In 1930 Lyall published a wittylittle book, ' It Isn't Done ; or The Future of Taboo among the British Islanders '. He has written several books of travel and so forth, and a novel, ' Envoy Extraordinary'. The visitor from Mars was greatly amused by Lyall's collection of match-box labels, nearly 3,000 in number, and recognised that this was mad world.
HARRY Roy AND his BAND
Relayed from The May Fair Hotel and Perhaps the Song of the Nightingale
