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At the Organ of The Ritz Cinema, Leeds

Directed by NORMAN AUSTIN
Relayed from
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Directed by Norms STANLEY
Relayed from
The Cafe Restaurant, Birmingham

(The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Caernarvon, 1935)
Cadeirio'r Bardd Buddugol
(The Chairing of the Bard Ceremony)
The Presidential Address by the Right Hon. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE , O.M., M.P. and The Adjudication of the Chair Poem and The Ceremony of Chairing the successful Bard
Relayed from The Eisteddfod Pavilion,
Caernarvon
The Ceremony will be under the direction of the Archdruid, GWILI
The Chairing Song sung by Mari MACKLIN (soprano)

Relayed from Westminster Abbey
Order of Service
Psalms xli-xliii
Lesson, I Samuel iii, 1-19 Magnificat (Axe in F) Lesson, Mark ix, 2-13
Nunc Dimittis (Axe in F)
Anthem, Rejoice in the Lord (Redford) Hymn, Jesu, meek and gentle (E.H. 415)

Directed by Louis Cohen
Relayed from The Valley Gardens, Harrogate

Delibes, like Sullivan, wrote both church and theatre music ; at one part of his life he held appointments in church and theatre at the same time. Successful in his own lifetime, and distinguished by many of the highest honours which France can offer her citizens, he cherished the ambition of composing serious opera, but it was as a composer of light opera and ballet music that he was most popular and that he is now remembered.

The opera Le roi l'a dit is based upon an old-world French subject, and was produced at the Opera Comique in 1873. Though the opera itself was not a great success in Paris, the Overture still holds its place in concert repertoires.
Percy Fletcher was one of those active musicians who, in the manner of permanent Government officials, do the real work that noisier people shout about and get the credit for. Fletcher was a clever composer of the best type of popular music, a man of experience in every department of the profession, and one who knew every inch of the theatre, from the box-office to the stage-door-for years he was musical director at His Majesty's Theatre.

He was, like his colleague, Eric Coates, born in the Midlands at Derby. Besides the music he composed for the theatre, he produced a quantity of cleverly-written, very tuneful and extremely popular light music. He ranked amongst the half-dozen or so British musicians who did this sort of thing extremely well.

by T. W. NORTH
Relayed from The Town Hall, Walsall

Relayed from The Piccadilly Hotel

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Leader, ALFRED BARKER
Conducted by CRAWFORD McNAIR
Smetana was an intensely national composer, and Prague was his centre. In that city he produced eight operas, written on Czech subjects and based upon Czech music. Of these, The Bartered Bride is the most famous ; it is, in fact, one of the world's finest comic operas. It was written nearly eighty years ago, and though for all that time it had been extremety popular in mid-Europe, only in recent years has the opera been performed in England with any degree of success. This overture was known to English audiences for many years before any other part of the opera was heard. The rhythmic rush of the string passages with which the overture opens is one of the most irresistibly sparkling passages in aU music, and the whole overture is the gayest thing imaginable
Massenet's opera on the great Spanish hero Le Cid naturally embodies a good deal of Spanish verve and rhythm in its music, and in the ballet, especially, the composer is entirely successful in the fresh and melodious way in which he gives us something of the Spanish atmosphere.

(The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Caernarvon, 1935)
A Concert
Relayed from
The Eisteddfod Pavilion
MEGAN THOMAS (soprano) FRANCIS RUSSELL (tenor)
ARTHUR FEAR (bass)
THE EISTEDDFOD CHOIR
Conducted by W. MATTHEWS WILLIAMS
THE LONDON
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, W. H. REED

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NORA D'ARGEL (soprano)

A selection of ' 'Æ's' Poems
Read by NESTA SAWYER
Tonight Nesta Sawyer will read a selection from the poems of ' Æ ', the late George William Russell , who died at the age of sixty-eight on July 17. He was born at Lurgan. Co. Armagh, in 1867, was educated at Rathmines School, Dublin, became a clerk in a large Dublin warehouse, attended the Arts School in the evening, and in the course of time became one of the best known figures in literary and artistic Irish circles. Poet, artist, patriot, ' Æ' was a poet of ideas ; he was both mystic and practical man, both visionary and kindly host. The Sunday evening gatherings in his house were famous.
His pen name or rather initials
' Æ' stood for ' Aeon or eternity. He published three volumes of poems, apart from the ' Collected Poems issued in 1926. Homeward : Songs by the Way', 1894; 'The Earth Breath', 1897; 'The House of th< Titans and Other Poems ', 1934.

THE BBC
DANCE ORCHESTRA
Directed by HENRY HALL