@ From page 15 of ' When Two or Three'
(g) for Farmers and Shipping
from First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street, Belfast
Directed by HENRY HALL
Under the direction of JOHAN Hock from Queen's College Chambers Lecture
Hall, Birmingham
A Pianoforte Recital by REGINALD PAUL
including Weather Forecast
Lotte Lehmann (soprano) : Ach wer das doch konnte (Berger) ; Thou art flown (Tales of Hoffmann) (Offenbach); Psyche wandelt durch Saulenhallen (Die toten Augen) (Dead Eyes) (D'Albert)
Richard Tauber (tenor) : Why this desire ? You would have been the only one (both from Spring Storms) (Weinberger) : The Night (Rubinstein)
Lotte Lehmann (soprano),
Richard Tauber (tenor) : Glück das mir verblieb (Die tote Stadt) (The Dead City) (Korngold)
Sir WALFORD DAVIES
The weekly series of talks ' Music and the Ordinary Listener ', which was first introduced ten years ago, is now to be resumed. The idea behind these talks is an informal discussion of musical matters of general interest with copious illustrations at the piano or on the blattnerphone or gramophone. The first two speakers will be Sir Walford Davies (October 2-November 6) and Ernest Newman (November 13-December 18), and later, George Dyson and Herbert HoweJJs will contribute to the series.
A musical comedy in two acts
(Founded on Sir Arthur Pinero 's ' The
.....Magistrate ')
By Fred Thompson
Music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot
Lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank
Adaptation and additional Lyrics by Archie Campbell
Characters :
Guests at the Meebles' and at the Cosmos Club
THE BBC MIDLAND REVUE CHORUS and THE REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by REGINALD BURSTON
Act I
Mr. Meebles' House at West Hampstead
Act 2
Scene i. The Cosmos Hotel, Verry
Street, W.C.
Scene 2. The Magistrate's Room,
Bromley Street
Scene 3. The Garden of Meebles'
House
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
This famous musical comedy, founded on Pinero's The Magistrate, was produced at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on September 14, 1917, and ran for 801 performances. It had an astonishingly fine cast-W. H. Berry (The Magistrate), Donald Calthrop (The Boy), Peter Gawthorne , Andre Randall , Nellie Taylor , Billie Carlton , and Heather Thatcher.
The first radio version is to be given tonight on National, and tomorrow on Midland (where it is being produced) and on Regional. It is something of an innovation in being a Midland radio production of a West End success. Reginald Burston , who conducts, should be in his element, for he was musical director for several Cochran-Coward shows in London before joining the BBC in Birmingham ; and the entire cast, with the exception of the Magistrate and his daughter, Millicent, are Midland players.
Dick Francis , who is to play the Magistrate, has broadcast constantly in National programmes for the last two years, having starred in such shows as La Vie Parisienne, Cottage Loaf, Sixty Smiles an Hour, ' Comic Opera ', the Scarlet Pimpernel burlesque, the Cinderella pantomime. Norah Howard , who is to play his daughter, is as well known in the theatre as on the air. Her recent radio shows have been Lots of Love, the February and December revues, Gala Variety, and Bitter Szceet.
at Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
Beethoven
ELSIE SUDDABY (soprano)
MARGARET BALFOUR (contralto)
PARRY JONES (tenor)
HAROLD WILLIAMS (baritone)
THE BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
(Chorus Master, LESLIE WOODGATE)
THE BBC
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(90 Players)
Principal violin, MARIE WILSON
Conducted by Sir HENRY J. WOOD
Symphony No. 9, in D minor (Choral)
1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso. 2. Scherzo : Molto vivace -Trio: Presto. 3. Adagio molto e cantabile. 4. Finale : Presto-Allegro assai-Presto-Allegro assai marcia-Andante maestoso-Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato-Allegro ma non tanto-Prestissimo-Maestoso—Prestissimo
The ' Choral ' Symphony is considered Beethoven's greatest symphony, and it was the first attempt by any composer to end a symphony with a choral movement. In his analysis of this symphony Sir Donald Tovey says : ' Even with an ordinary instrumental finale, the Ninth Symphony would have remained the most gigantic instrumental work extant ; its gigantic proportions are only the more wonderful from the fact that the forms are still the purest outcome of the sonata style. The choral finale itself is perfect in form. We must insist on this, because vast masses of idle criticism are still nowadays directed against the Ninth Symphony and others of Beethoven's later works in point of form ; and these criticisms rest upon uncultured and unclassical text-book criteria as to musical form ; mere statements of the average procedure warranted to produce tolerable effect if carefully carried out. We shall never make head or tail of the Ninth Symphony until we treat it as a law unto itself.'
Tickets can be obtained from the British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, W.1 ; Messrs. Chappell's Box Office, Queen's Hall, Langham Place, W.i, and usual agents. Prices (including Entertainments Tax : 7s. 6d., 6s., 5s. (reserved); 3s. (unreserved); promenade (payment at doors only), 2S.
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
Sea Harvests—11
WYNN THOMAS
Leader, MONTAGUE BREARLEY
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
