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Ina Souez (soprano): I want your heart (Haydn Wood); Love will find a way (Maid of the Mountains) (Fraser-Sintson) ; Always (Puritan Lullaby) (Smith)
Gordon I.ittle (baritone) : Marcheta
(Schertzinger) ; Love, I give you my all (Dowdon) ; My little Girl (Hackforth)
Olive Groves (soprano) : Song of the Nightingale (Hudson) ; I live for love, A girl like Nina (Ball at the Savoy) (Paul Abraham, Hammerstein)

Leader, BERTRAM LEWIS
Conductor, RICHARD AUSTIN
Solo violin, GEZA DE KRESZ from the Pavilion, Bournemouth (Soloist, GEZA DE KRESZ)Brahms's Violin Concerto in D is one of the three or four greatest concertos written for the instrument. It was composed in 1878 when Brahms was forty-five years of age. The first performance took place at a Gewandhaus Concert at Leipzig on January 1, 1879, with Joachim as soloist and Brahms as conductor. Seven weeks later Joachim played the Concerto at the Crystal Palace with great success. Joachim had much to do with the fashioning of the solo part, for while Brahms was writing it he was continually asking for Joachim's expert advice on the most effective way of laying out certain passages from the technical point of view of the virtuoso.

Contributors

Leader:
Bertram Lewis

' Law and the Citizen'
Lord MACMILLAN from the Lecture Hal! of the Royal
Philosophical Society of Glasgow
National Lectures are a rare and important event in the programmes. The first was given by the late Poet Laureate. Robert Bridges , on February 28, 1929, and the latest by the Archbishop of York, who spoke on ' Faith and Freedom ' on May 30, 1935.
Today's ' National Lecture '-the seventeenth-is to be given by Lord Macmillan before members of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow in the Lecture Hall of the Society at 207, Bath Street.
Lord Macmillan took silk in 1912, has been a Privy Councillor since 1924 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary since 1930. His career has been one of the greatest distinction : Advocate of the Scottish Bar, Examiner in Law at Glasgow University, Lord Advocate of Scotland— he has been Chairman of numerous Royal Commissions, Committees, and Courts of Inquiry ; and is a Trustee of the British Museum, the National Library of Scotland, and King George's Jubilee Trust.
In the autumn of 1932 he gave three broadcast talks on ' The Law of the Land ', and he was last heard on the air in June. 1935, when he spoke on the National Savings movement.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Bridges

Dino Borgioli has had a distinguished career. After studying for five years with Giachetti in Florence, he made his début in Donizetti's Don Pasquale during the 1918-19 season at La Scala, Milan. Since that time Mr. Borgioli has made an international reputation, having appeared with great success frequently at most of the leading opera houses of the world, including Vienna Opera, Salzburg Festspielhaus, Chicago Opera House, New York Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and the Paris Opera.

A Cavalcade of Lyrics past and present by famous Authors
Presented by BRUCE SIEVIER
Vocalists
ESTHER COLEMAN and PERCY MANCHESTER
At the pianos,
JEAN MELVILLE and ALBERT ARLEN
Sing me the words
While shadows softly fall, For songs without words Have no meaning at all
Clifton Bingham , Lilian Glanville , Clifford Grey-these are the three lyric writers whose works Bruce Sievier will present tonight. They wrote the words to songs of the past, songs that still live ; and those words were so good that they are now inseparable from the tunes.
Clifton Bingham is now dead. It was he who composed, among other things, the lyric of ' Love's Old Sweet
Song' and A Jovial Monk am I Lilian Glanville has collaborated with composers of the calibre of Haydn
Wood and Eric Coates. Remember It is Only a Tiny Garden ' and ' Brown Eyes I Love ? It was Lilian Glanville who wrote the words to these. Then there is Clifford Grey who wrote the words of The Grenadiers ' and ' Dream Lover', songs that were sung so charmingly by Jeanette Macdonald in the film The Love Parade. Grey has had many other triumphs, too. One ot his greatest, of course, was the famous duet sung by George Robey and Violet Loraine , ' If You were the Only Girl in the World

Contributors

Presented By:
Bruce Sievier
Unknown:
Esther Coleman
Unknown:
Percy Manchester
Unknown:
Clifton Bingham
Unknown:
Lilian Glanville
Unknown:
Clifford Grey-These
Unknown:
Bruce Sievier
Unknown:
Clifton Bingham
Unknown:
Lilian Glanville
Unknown:
Eric Coates.
Unknown:
Lilian Glanville
Unknown:
Clifford Grey
Unknown:
Jeanette MacDonald
Sung By:
George Robey
Sung By:
Violet Loraine

(Section D)
Led by MARIE WILSON
Conducted by JOHN BARBIROLLI Dvorak's Overtures
Though Dvorak's thtee overtures ' Carnival ', ' In der Natur ', and ' Othello ' bear different opus numbers, they were conceived in the summer of 1891 as a single work : a cycle of overtures' to be entitled ' Nature, Life, and Love '.
The first two were written almost at once and were dedicated to the Universities of Cambridge and Prague respectively, which had just conferred honorary degrees on the composer.
The ' Othello' Overture was composed a little later after Dvorak's visit to England in October of the same year
The brilliant ' Carnival' Overture must be well known to listeners bv this time, but' In der Natur ' is less familiar while the passionate, rather sombre ' Othello ' is heard very seldom. Spanish Capriccio
The first movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio ; espagnol ' is an Alborado, a lively popular Spanish dance usually played on bagpipes with side-drum accompaniment. The second movement consists of four variations on a soft, languorous tune heard first on the horns over a string accompaniment.
The third movement is another version of the Alborado, which, although more or less the same in thematic material, is provided with a new orchestral dressing. The fourth movement is a guitar song' of gypsy character in the form of a series of cadenzas for (a) horns, trumpets, and side-drums, (b) violins, (c) flute, (d) clarinet, (e) oboe (f) harp. After these cadenzas the tempo and rhythm become wild and abandoned and the music is worked up by the full orchestra to a fine climax, which leads straight into the fifth movement, an Asturian Fandango, a brilliant dance in triple time, complete with castanets and guitar effects.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marie Wilson
Conducted By:
John Barbirolli

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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