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at the Organ of the Ritz Cinema,
Belfast
David Martin (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
James Whitehead (violoncello)
Dance Music
Directed by HARRY DAVIDSON from the Commodore Theatre,
Hammersmith
Jascha Heifetz (violin): Caprice,
Op. 1, No. 24 (Paganini, arr. Auer) ; Fritz Kreisler (violin) : Larghetto (Weber, arr. Kreisler) ; Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven (Weber, arr. Kreisler)
Joseph Szigeti (violin) : Fountain of Arethusa—Myths, Op. 30 (Szymanmvski) ; Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Pastoral (Stravinsky)
Opera by Humperdinck
Act I. Scene : The Home
Act II. Scene : The Forest
Conductor, Geoffrey Corbett
Producer, Sumner Austin
Chorus Master, Geoffrey Corbett from Sadler's Wells Theatre
After the overture the curtain rises on Hansel and Gretel in their cottage; they are romping and singing when their mother returns to find them neglecting the tasks she had set them. She packs them off to the woods to gather berries, and no sooner have they gone than the father comes home ; he has had a lucky day selling his brooms. When he hears where the children are, he is horrified, and soon makes his wife share in his terror ; a witch, he tells her, lives in the wood, who eats little children. They rush off together in search of Hansel and Gretel.
Act II is in the wood where the children have lost their way. In answer to their prayer, as they lie down to sleep, angels come down from on high to guard them.
Variety
' Pigs is Pigs', by ELLIS PARKER BUTLER , read by EUGENE LEAHY
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, E. GODFREY BROWN
HUGH CARSON (baritone)
William Walton 's ' Façade ' was written in 1923 when the composer was twenty-one years of age. It was originally conceived as a series of poems by Edith Sitwell to be recited through a megaphone with musical accompaniment, for flute, clarinet, saxophone, 'cello, trumpet, and percussion. These accompaniments are mostly in the form of very clever and witty parodies of popular dance tunes, ranging from the polka to the foxtrot.
In 1926 Walton revised this work and a!so arranged an orchestral Suite for concert use, in which form it was played as an interlude during the Diaghilev Russian Ballet seasons, and will be heard this evening.
A few years ago, however, the Vic-
Wells Ballet thought of the happy idea of adapting the music of ' Fa9ade ' as a ballet, and accordingly one of the cleverest and wittiest of modern ballets was produced, Frederick Ashton being responsible for the choreography and John Armstrong for the costumes and decor. There is no story to the ballet; it consists merely of a series of brilliant little character studies. On its first performance at Sadler's Wells it was an immediate success, and since that time it has been one of the most popular ballets in the Vic-Wells repertoire.
Directed by HENRY HALL
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Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
John Francis (flute)
The London String Trio: Jean Pougnet (violin) William Primrose (viola) Anthony Pini (violoncello)
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Elsie Suddaby
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Trio
From Divertimento in E flat
Minuetto: Allegro; Allegro
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THE WESTERN BROTHERS
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ELSIE AND DORIS WATERS
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. LARRY ADLER
The Wizard of the Harmonica
GIPSY NINA
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HAROLD WILLIAMS (baritone)
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