From page 27 of ' When Two or Three '
Directed by FRANK STOKES
Relayed from The Pavilion Theatre, Liverpool
An Hour with some Old Favourites
Leader, Alfred Barker
Conducted by CRAWFORD McNair
Tchaikovsky's ' Casse Noisette ' (Nutcracker) Suite contains some of the daintiest ballet music ever written. The whole work is, of course, much longer than the Suite, which contains only some of the best numbers, and lasts for a considerable time when presented on the stage.
The story of the ballet is taken from
E. T. A. Hoffmann's fantastic fairy-tale
' Nutcracker and Mouse-King '—this
Hoffmann being the Hoffmann of Offenbach's opera—and is of a type that seems very much to appeal to Russian artists and audiences.
The complete ballet was first produced in St. Petersburg in 1892, and the Suite was introduced to England by Sir Henry Wood at a Promenade Concert in 1896.
including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers
A Recital of The Works of Vaughan Thomas by MEGAN THOMAS (soprano)
Conductor, J. C. DYSON
STUART ROBERTSON (baritone)
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
(Section C)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by JULIAN CLIFFORD
This favourite symphony shows Haydn at his gayest. It overflows with good spirits-clear, simple music in no need of words to commend it. It is the seventh of a set of twelve composed for the Paris Concert spirituel in 1787. Schonberg's ' Music to accompany a film scene ', written in 1930, is scored for a fairly small orchestra, with a generous proportion of percussion. The musical texture is simpler than usual with Schonberg, and the nature of the ' film scene ' is indicated by the sub-title : ' Threatening danger, fear, catastrophe'.
This Serenade, one of the two Brahms wrote early in his career, is the first of his published works for full orchestra. It is in the traditional form used by Mozart and his other predecessors, and contains the two delicate and exquisite Minuets that so often appear as separate items in concert programmes.
AMBROSE AND HIS
EMBASSY CLUB ORCHESTRA
