From page 84 of ' When Two or Three '

At the Organ of The Dominion Theatre,
Tottenham Court Road

Directed by ALFRED VAN DAM
Relayed from The Troxy Cinema

Directed by HENRY HALL

Under the direction of JOHAN HOCK
Relayed from
Queen's College Chambers Lecture
Hall, Birmingham
Solo violins,
LAURA BLACK and MARGARET LAWSON
THE BIRMINGHAM PHILHARMONIC
STRING ORCHESTRA
Leader, Norris Stanley
Conductor, JOHAN HOCK

Elsie Suddaby (soprano) : Nymphs and Shepherds (Purccll) ; By thy banks, gentle Stour (Boyce, arr. Lehmann) ; The Lass with the Delicate Air (Arne)
John McCormack (tenor), with Edwin Schneider (pianoforte): There (Parry) ; Three Aspects (Parry) ; Is she not passing fair ? (Elgar) ; Love's Secret (Bantock)
Stuart Robertson (bass-baritone), with Gerald Moore (pianoforte) : The Roadside Fire (Vaughan Williams ) ; Bright is the ring of words (Vaughan Williams )

ELLIS KEELER (bass-baritone)

THE BBC MIDLAND ORCHESTRA
Leader, ALFRED CAVE
Conducted by H. FOSTER CLARK
This afternoon's programme gives listeners a useful opportunity of comparing Rimsky-Korsakov's art at the outset of his career with its maturest development. The ' musical picture ' ' Sadko ' (written in 1867, when the composer was only twenty-three ; revised in 1892) was composed many years before the opera on the same subject, but the Easter Festival Overture and Scheherazade both date from 1888 and show the composer's mastery of the orchestra at its most brilliant.
A wild dance
The writing of an orchestra] piece on the subject of Sadko, the minstrel of Novgorod who is carried off by the Sea-King's daughter and sets the whole submarine kingdom dancing to his music (thus causing an appalling storm on the surface of the ocean), was first suggested by Stassov to Balakirev ; Balakirev passed it on to Mussorgsky, and Mussorgsky to Rimsky-Korsakov. Korsakov's ' programme ' is very simple and concise : Calm sea-Sadko's descent into the depths of the ocean-the Sea King's feast (Sadko's dance-tune growing wilder and wilder as the storm arises)-calm sea as at the beginning. Incidentally, Rimsky-Korsakov used the themes of this early orchestral piece in his opera Sadko, composed twenty-eight years later. The score of the Easter Festival Overture bears a quotation from Psalm lxviii, ' Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered ; let them also that hate Him flee before Him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away : As wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God ', and another from the Gospel of St. Mark, xvi, 1-6, describing the finding of the empty tomb by the women and the angel's assurance : He is risen '. The composer adds : ' And the glad news spread throughout all the universe, and those who hated Him fled before Him, driven away like smoke
" Resurrexit ! " sing the angelic choirs in Heaven, to the sound of the Archangels' trumpets and the rustling of the wings of Seraphim. " Resurrexit ! " sing the priests in the temples, amid clouds of incense, by the light of innumerable candles, to the ringing of triumphant bells.'
Pagan merrymaking
The overture is based on melodies of the Greek Orthodox Church. ' In it ', explains the composer in his Memoirs, ' are combined reminiscences of the prophecy of Isaiah and of the gospel narrative, and also a general picture of the Easter service with its " pagan merrymaking" Do not the waving beards of the priests and deacons, their white vestments, and their singing in lively tempo, carry the imagination back to pagan times ? And all these Easter loaves, these burning candlesHow far is all this from Christ's teaching ! This legendary and pagan side of the holiday, this transition from the gloomy and mysterious evening of Easter Saturday to the unbridled pagan-religious merrymaking on Easter Sunday morning, is what I wished to express in my Overture.'

Directed by HENRY HALL

including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers

LISZT
(i8ii-i8S6)
Commemoration
Under the direction of Bernard van Dieren
Pianoforte Music played by FRANK MANNHEIMER
Two Transcriptions of Schubert Songs
Lob der Tranen (Praise of Tears)
Das Wandern (Wondering) (Die schore Mullerin)
Tanz in der Dorfschenke (Dance in the Village Inn) (Waltz No. I)

C. H. MIDDLETON

HAROLD SAMUEL

A Programme for Anybody and Everybody with Young Ideas
Messages in secret code have always held a fascination for us, whether they are found in the pages of a detective story or in the personal column of a newspaper. It is good news then that from this evening onwards listeners to ' Young Ideas ' are to have the chance to solve a secret code given out over the microphone by a real detective. Making them up is a hobby of Louis C. S. Mans field, an Australian who is over here to study our methods in detecting forgery. Each Friday he will give a fresh cypher, with hints about solving it and the solution the following week.
Here is the cypher he is to give tonight:
32.41.44.30.44, 48-47, 34.41.44,
41.45.40.47.44, 28.41.48.34.41,
48, 43.45.48.27.32.44.42, 45.40.32,
32.45, 32.41.44.38,
39.44.47.32.44.30.42.29.39,
44.50.44.27.48.37.26.

' Two minds without a single thought'

by PHILIP WADE
Listeners may have read ' The Broadcaster's ' comments on this play last week in THE RADIO TIMES when they said it savoured of a Dickens story. The truth of this will be heard this evening. Little Jenny makes a pathetic counterpart of Oliver Twist , old man Steele can be identified with benevolent Mr. Brownlow, and Mr. Grace is every bit as ubiquitously villainous as Fagin.
Philip Wade wrote the play especially for broadcasting. Apart from an adroit use of radio technique with no meaningless ' tricks ', Jenny Meade is remarkable for its characterisation, and the moving but unsentimental treatment of an intricate plot.
Pamela Standish makes her radio drama debut in the name-part.

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

RAYMOND SWING
(From America)

Leader, MONTAGUE BREARLEY
Conductor,
STANFORD ROBINSON and RONALD GOURLEY
(entertainer)

Relayed from The May Fair Hotel