From page 63 of ' When Two or Three
for Farmers and Shipping
at the Organ of the Regal, Edmonton
Quintet Instrumental de Paris :
Sonata for Flute and Strings (Scarlatti)-I. Allegro moderato and Adagio ; 3. Fugue ; 3. Largo ; 4-
Allegro Elena Gerhardt (mezzo-soprano):
Schlummerlied, Op. 24, No. 2, Abschied (Schubert); Wie komm' ich denn zur
Tur herein, Mein Madel hat nen Rosenmund, Vor dem Fenster, Op. 14,
No. 1 (Brahms)
Quintet Instrumental de Paris : Suite for flute, strings, and harp, Op. 01
(d'Indy)—i. Entree en sonate ; 2. Air, désult; 3. Sarabande; 4. Farandole variée
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy WARRACK
Amy SAMUEL (soprano)
The Busch Quartet: Quartet in C,
Op. 59, No. 3 (Razumovsky) (Beethoven) — 1. Introduzione (Andante con moto) Allegro vivace ; 2. Andante con moto quasi allegretto; 3. Minuetto: Grazioso and Trio ; 4. Allegro molto
The Galimir String Quartet: Quartet
No. 7, in B flat (Milhaud)-I. Allegro ; 2. Andante; 3. Lento ; 4. Vivace
with VERNON ADCOCK
(xylophone and vibraphone)
ELEANOR KAUFMAN (mezzo-soprano)
THE BRITISH STRING TRIO:
Jessie Snow (violin); Alan Bartlet : (violin); Ernest Tomlinson (viola)
presented by BORIS YvAiN in Songs and Dances
With CARMEN DEL Rio
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'Martin Chuzzlewit ,' by Charles Dickens
No. 2
Chapters 8 and 9: 'The Pecksniffs
Visit London-and Ruth Pinch'
Read by V. C. CLINTON-BADDELEY
There has never been a writer whose works have stood so well as those of Charles Dickens the severe test of being read aloud. Dickens himself was the first man to realise this virtue in them, for apart from occasionally treating his personal friends to a pre-publication reading from the latest .' number ', he eventually toured both England and America, giving a highly successful series of professional readings, which were classed among the most popular entertainments of the time.
Clinton-Baddeley has had the opportunity of presenting Dickens to a wider audience (in the literal sense of the term) than Dickens ever dreamt of. He first broadcast a series of readings from ' Great Expectations ', and these were followed up with further series from ' David Copperfield ' and ' Dombey and Son', the latter in the summer of 1932. In these readings he revealed himself as a first-rate interpreter of the infinite variety of character and mood to be found in the pages of Dickens.
Conductor,
ARTHUR W. DELAMONT
The Vancouver Boys' Band was founded in 1928, under its present conductor, at Kitsilano, a suburb of Vancouver. It was begun in quite a small way. A few boys met to make a sort of music with the instruments common to most boys, harmonicas, or, as we say, mouth-organs, tin-whistles, drums, and perhaps a ukulele or two ; but development was ambitiously planned and rapid, so that the band is now of full military band strength and quality. Enthusiasm and application have worked a marvel.
The band at its full strength is seventy. The boys, whose ages range from eleven years to nineteen, are all from school or college, and it is therefore a band of students-probably unique of its kind. Already the boys have had a great deal of experience. They have, for example, played their way across Canada, and two years ago went on an eight weeks' tour through Europe, visiting England where they gave two broadcasts, two exhibition concerts at Belle Vue, Manchester, and were officially received at Grosvenor House by the High Commissioner of Canada.
by MYRA HESS
Myra Hess
On July 4 Myra Hess played the Schumann Concerto with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam under Mengelberg at a concert in connection with the British Exhibition there. Though Miss Hess has played in most countries in Europe, in the autumn she is to make her début in Scandinavia, where she will visit the principal centres of music.
The story of Myra Hess 's struggle for fame is told by Guy Fletcher this week in his series ' People You Hear' on page 8.
Schumann's Symphonic Studies
Schumann composed his ' Etudes symphoniques' in 1834 when he was twenty-four years of age. These magnificent piano studies are written in the form of a theme and variations. The theme is by Baron Hauptmann von Fricken, who composed a set of variations on it for flute. The work was sent to Schumann for his criticism and he was greatly impressed with the possibilities of the theme for piano treatment if suitably adapted. In the finale, however, it gives way in importance to the opening melody, which is based on an air from Marschner's Der Templcr und die Jüdin sung to the words ' Who is the highly-honoured knight' (referring to Richard Cceur de Lion) and ' Rejoice, proud England ' (a tribute to Sterndale Bennett , to whom the Etudes are dedicated).
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Leader, ALFRED CAVE
Conducted by LESLIE HEWARD
D'lndy's Karadec Suite is drawn from his incidental music to a play of Breton life produced at the Theatre Moderne. Paris, in 1892. Scored for a small orchestra, it is one of this composer', most attractive minor works.