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at the Organ of the Dominion Theatre,
Tottenham Court Road
Fredric Bayco began his musical education with piano-lessons at the age of seven. He became a choirboy at the same time, and that in turn led to his interest in the organ. At eleven he began to study his favourite instrument and next year he was appointed assistant organist at St. James's Church, Littlehampton. After that he held the post of organist at two other Littlehampton churches.
Bayco continued his organ studies at the Brighton School of Music, taking
. the double-bass as his second study and playing it in the school symphony orchestra. He became a cinema organist at sixteen.
His first broadcast was given in October, 1935, and since then he has broadcast regularly every week except during an illness last spring. He has also given occasional Empire broadcasts at 6.30 a.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fredric Bayco

The Hon. BRIAN LEWIS
In his talk this evening, Brian Lewis (who is competing in the R.A.C. Tourist Trophy race tomorrow) will deal not so much with track races, hill climbs, and record attempts as with the type of race that is his ' idea of a good time ' : road racing.
He will discuss the two main types of road race, for true racing cars (such as the Grand Prix contests) and for sports cars (like the Tourist Trophy), the preparation for a race, the race itself, the work of the pit-manager-all-important and insufficiently understood by the general public-and various other points of interest.
Running commentaries on the Royal
Automobile Club Tourist Trophy Motor Race will be broadcast tomorrow at 11.45, 2.0, and 4.15. A plan of the course appears on page 57.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Lewis
Unknown:
Brian Lewis

(A Series of Concert Party Broadcasts)
No. 7
THE ARCADIAN FOLLIES from the South Pier, Blackpool
Introduced by HARRY S. PEPPER and DAVY BURNABY
The Follies have been on the South Pier for six years and have given thirty broadcasts, including one to the Empire which brought them letters from all over the world, especially from Lancashire people in far distant places. They tour during the winter but they will be back again at Blackpool next Easter.
Parties that have broadcast recently in this series are John Berryman and -Adele Wesseley 's Concert Party from the Winter Gardens Pavilion, Margate, the Fol-de-Rols, whose three separate shows were broadcast from Hastings, Eastbourne and Llandudno, and Jack Rickard 's Concert Party, who broadcast from the Summer Theatre, Felixstowe, on August 2j.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Harry S. Pepper
Introduced By:
Davy Burnaby
Unknown:
John Berryman
Unknown:
Adele Wesseley
Unknown:
Jack Rickard

at Queen's Hall, London
(So!e Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (pianoforte)
THE BBC
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(90 Players)
Principal violin, MARIE WILSON
Conducted by SIR HENRY J. WOOD
Beethoven
Pianoforte Concerto No. 3, in C minor
I. Allegro con brio 2. Largo
3. Rondo : Allegro
Solo pianoforte, ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor though still rather Mozartian in manner is far more' individual in style than the No. 2 in B flat. It points the way to the last two concertos which are highly original in both thought and construction. The C minor Concerto was composed in 1800, the year that also brought forth the six string quartets, Op. 18, the Piano Sonata in B flat, Op. 22, and the String Quintet, Op. 29. It is a clearly designed work full of charming melodic invention, brilliant piano writing, and fine orchestral effect.
Symphony No. 6, in F (Pastoral) (Op.
68)
1. Awakening of Joyful Feelings on arrival in the country (Allegro ma non troppo) ; 2. Scene by the Brook (Andante molto mosso); 3. Merry Gathering of Villagers (Allegro); 4. Storm and Tempest (Allegro); 5. Shepherd's Song: Thanksgiving after the Storm (Allegretto)
Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F, ' The Pastoral ', is one of the very few works to which the composer outlined a programme. The music, said Beethoven, was to be considered ' more the expression of sentiment than painting'. Unfortunately this has caused a great deal of questionable discussion on the rights and wrongs of illustrative music, more often blaming Beethoven, as Sir Donald Tovey points out, ' for leading music into so dangerous a by-path by sacrificing musical form to the demands of his external musical programme. The passage which has given most offence in the symphony is the representation of the cuckoo, the nightingale, and the quail at the end of the slow movement. That passage is a master stroke of pure musical form.' Berlioz declared that this symphony affected him more deeply than any of the others. He described it as ' an astounding landscape that seems to have been composed by Poussin and painted by Michelangelo '.
Tickets can be obtained from the British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, W.i, Messrs. Chappell's Box Office, Queen's Hall, Langham Place, W.I, and usual agents. Prices (including Entertainments Tax); ys. 6d., 6s., 5s. (reserved) ; 35. (unreserved); promenade (payment at doors only), 2s.

Contributors

Pianoforte:
Arthur Rubinstein
Violin:
Marie Wilson
Conducted By:
Sir Henry J. Wood
Unknown:
I. Allegro
Pianoforte:
Arthur Rubinstein
Unknown:
Sir Donald Tovey

Bernard Crook is essentially a post-war musician, since it was only in 1914 that he sealed his career with an open scholarship for the piano. After a season or two of recitals in London and the Provinces, he went on tour through the British Isles and later with Pavlova in a season of International Celebrity Concerts. He owes much of his success to his belief that light music should be played with style and with the finesse of a chamber music performance.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Crook

National Programme Daventry

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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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