Ⓓ From page 90 of ' When Two or Three '

Leader, Alfred Barker
Conductor, T. H. MORRISON
MARY HUNTER (soprano)

Directed by HARRY DAVIDSON
Relayed from
The Commodore Theatre,
Hammersmith

Conducted by Charles Shadwell
Relayed from The Hippodrome Theatre, Coventry

At the Organ of The Granada, Tooting

SILVER PRIZE BAND
Conductor, J. JOHNSON
A. E. ROGERS (baritone) (From North)

FRANK BLACK
AND HIS
SYMPHONIC DANCE ORCHESTRA
THE CAVALIERS MALE QUARTET

including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers

' Boxing Today'
LIONEL SECCOMBE
When he was at Oxford, Lionel Seccombe was an outstanding boxing Blue. He is now connected with the promotion side of boxing, but for several years he has also distinguished himself as a BBC sports eye-witness and commentator.
This evening he will discuss a sad and puzzling feature of British boxing-our apparent inability to produce a world's heavy-weight champion. He will also disclose the various methods employed in the preparation of boxers for the professional ring. In one capacity or another Seccombe has been fortunate enough to see most of the big fights that have taken place in recent years, and it is his intention to illustrate his talk by referring to them when necessary.

Punctuated by BRYAN MICHIE with LARRY ADLER
MARIO LORENZI
MARJORIE STEDEFORD
THE RHYTHM BROTHERS
CLARICE MAYNE and her pianist, BOBBY ALDERSON
STANLEY KIRKBY
MARGARET CARLISLE
FREDERICK GARDNER and his Rhythm
Six
THE B B C VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KNEALE KELLEY

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

(Section C)
Led by MARIE WILSON
Conducted by FRANK BRIDGE
Glinka wrote the orchestral piece Kamarinskaya on two folk-songs (a bridal song, and a snatch of gypsy dance-melody from which the composition takes its name) in 1848 for the Governor of Warsaw's private orchestra. Glinka was the least self-conscious of geniuses (or almost geniuses).
In composing Kamarinskaya he had no aim deeper than the killing of boredom during an empty winter; actually, he was laying the foundation stone of Russian symphonic music.
' Kamarinskaya is astonishingly original ', wrote Tchaikovsky. 'From it all the Russian composers who have followed Glinka (including myself) continue to this day to borrow contrapuntal and harmonic combinations directly they have to develop a Russian dance tune..... Glinka managed to concentrate in one short work what a dozen second-rate talents would have invented only with the whole expenditure of their powers '.
Dvorak, as was natural, had an intense affection for the folk tunes and native idioms of his country. Much of his music is influenced by them, and the many Slavonic Dances and Rhapsodies he wrote are, of course, based on them.
The Dances were written originally for piano duet, a common form in those days, but afterwards scored for orchestra, in the highly-coloured, luxuriant manner that the fiery rhythms and piquant melodies call for.

THE B B.C DANCE ORCHESTRA
Directed by HENRY HALL