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Directed by HENRY HALL

Directed by W. H. SYDNEY JONES
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This ever-popular conductor and his band are breaking all previous records at the Spa, Bridlington, and Herman Darewski attributes it very largely to the value of broadcasting. He has received nearly 2,500 letters from listeners, among them one from India, sent by Air Mail and expressing delight with the broadcast and its excellent clarity and reception.
Darewski always welcomes letters from listeners. He finds it a wonderful help and guide to know which items please most. The items that listeners would like to hear are the ones he most wants to play.
After his last broadcast, Darewski received letters of congratulation from Alice Delysia and Maurice Chevalier , and a cable from Evelyn Laye. No man in the world of music is busier. He is at present writing the music both for a new Chevalier film and for a new Grace Moore film.

Leader, A. Rossi
Under the direction of EMILIO COLOMBO
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Puccini's opera, Manon Lescaut , one of several founded on the Abbe Prevost 's novel, was produced at Turin in 1893 and London heard it for the first time in May of the following year. It used to be one of the most popular of Puccini's operas, but for some reason or another it has dropped out of the repertoire of late years. The second act, however, includes several numbers that are constantly heard apart from the opera.

Directed by HENRY HALL

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Conductor,
B. WALTON O'DONNELL
Smetana was the first great Czech national composer. In addition to a large quantity of orchestral and chamber music, he wrote eight operas, all of which are based on national subjects and folk music. Of these, The Bartered Bride is the most famous and it has an international reputation of being one of the finest of comic operas. Smetana's fourth opera was Libusa, which has strong political significance. Smetana described it as 'a solemn festival picture' and desired that it should be presented only ' on festivals which touch the whole Czech nation '. The libretto is based on a folk legend which runs as follows : ' Libusa, foundress of Prague, finding the need of a consort to help her in ruling the country, takes the unusual and democratic course of choosing Premysl, a wise and noble-hearted peasant, to be her husband. Libusa has the Rift of prophecy, and in the final scene she evokes a vision of the splendid future of her country'.
It was Balakirev who founded the Russian school which included Cesar Cui , Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsahov and Borodin. These men together launched the famous movement which put Russia so definitely on the musical map that, with the exception of Wagner's, no influence has more emphatically made its mark on modem music than theirs.
Balakirev's watchful care of them was neatly summed up by Borodin; he said : ' as long as we were eggs of one laying (meaning Balakirev's) we were very much alike ; only when the chicks were hatched did each have its different plumage and fly off in its own chosen direction '. But throughout their careers, all those younger composers-and others, too, like Tchaikovsky-were glad to acknowledge their debt to his inspiration, and Russia undoubtedly owes him a great deal. His own music-there is not much of it-is of superb quality, rich, vivid, and picturesque; it has been well said of it, of Islamey as much as of any, that it lies on the fringe of immortality. Originally a pianoforte piece, it has been brilliantly transcribed for military band by R. J. F. Howgill.

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Read by FELIX AYLMER

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