From page 49 of 'New Every Morning'
for Farmers and Shipping
at the Organ of the Classic Cinema,
Belfast
History in the Making
Roth String Quartet: Quartet in C, Op. 33 No. 3 (The Bird) (Haydn)
-1 Allegro moderato; 2 Scherzando: Allegretto; 3 Adagio; 4 Finale: rondo
Société (Taffanel) des Instruments a vent, and Erwin Schulhoff (pianoforte) : Quintet in E flat for wood-wind and pianoforte (Mozart)—1 Largo ; 2 Allegro moderato ; 3 Rondo
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by Peter Montgomery
David Richardson (baritone)
A commentary on the match by P. G. H. Fender from Old Trafford, Manchester
Conductor, Stanley Jennings
(From Leeds)
Interlude
2.5 Round the Countryside
'Dragonflies'
C. C. GADDUM
Mr. Gaddum will deal with the two main types of dragonflies-the stout-bodied variety and the slender-bodied kind. The stout-bodied kind with very powerful wings, sometimes called the horse-stinger, and the thin-bodied kind with very delicate wings. He will describe the life-history of the dragon-fly, how the eggs are laid by the female on some water-plant, how they hatch out into ferocious-looking aquatic larvae, how they stalk and hunt their prey on the bottom of ponds and ditches. And he will speak of how they change from the unsightly larvae into dazzling replicas of their parent.
Teachers could with advantage have drawings or specimens of the two kinds of dragonflies to show their classes.
2.25 Interlude
2.30 English Literature-2
Famous Writers-Lewis Carroll
STEPHEN POTTER
2.55 Interlude
3.0 Concert Lesson
(a) Variations—1 (a) 'The Horn*
THOMAS ARMSTRONG , D.Mus.
3.30 Interlude
3.35 Early Stages in French
E. M. STÉPHAN
with Vernon Adcock
(xylophone and vibraphone)
(From Birmingham)
A commentary on the match by P. G. H. Fender from Old Trafford, Manchester
All arrangements by Julius Kantrovitch
including Weather Forecast
by ELSE RYKENS (soprano)
' April to June' a series of talks about the countryside
' The Dawn Chorus '
Eric Parker
By mid-May all the migrants that sing have arrived, and all the birds in England, migrants and residents, are nesting. The nesting period is the period' of full song, and the full chorus of song is to be heard at dawn. No one who has not heard it can imagine what is the volume of sound of the dawn chorus ; it is almost a shout. As a rule it starts in the dark, with the lark ; and it ends suddenly, almost as if a conductor's baton had fallen. Then the birds start feeding. But they always sing before they feed..... This will give listeners an outline of Eric Parker 's talk.
(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Albert Coates
Suite from King Arthur (for Strings)
Purcell, arr. Herbage
King Arthur, or The British Worthy was produced at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, in 1691. In addition to the music occurring during the course of the play, Purcell wrote instrumental music to be played before the rise of the curtain (called ' first music ', ' second music ', and ' curtain tune '), and the ' act tunes ', or interludes. The present suite is selected from this instrumental music. As far as can be ascertained, the Overture and First Aire formed the ' second music ', the Hornpipe and Second Aire were probably ' act tunes and the Song Tune is a transcription of the well-known ' Fairest Isle '. The Chaconne has generally been held to be the ' Grand Dance ' at the end of the opera, but there is evidence to show that it was probably the ' first music '.
Many readers of Radio Times must have seen the film Turksib a pictorial record of the making of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway (completed in 1931). This symphony by Rimsky-Korsakov's pupil and son-in-law, Maximilian Steinberg , commemorates the same feat of engineering.
A note prefaced to the score explains that ' in his " Turksib " Symphony the composer has attempted, as far as is possible by instrumental means, to convey the fundamental idea of the struggle with the forces of nature, with the vast expanses of desert and wild mountain ranges, amid the peoples of a once backward and oppressed land. ... Besides statistical documents, the composer has used as literary material poems by S. Kirsanov (" The Song of Turksib") and Demyan Bedny (" Shaitan-arba ") '.
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
Sir James Jeans
The ' White Dwarfs ', about which Sir James Jeans is to speak this evening, have figured largely in the astronomy of the last few years. They are extreme in many ways. If we are asked which is the smallest of known stars, the hottest, or the most densely packed, the answer is in each case a white dwarf. A few years ago these, small, hot, dense stars were believed to be rare freaks, but it now seems quite possible that if we were asked which is the commonest type of star in the sky the answer ought again to be—'The White Dwarfs '.
A Cabaret Entertainment
Presented by Archie Campbell with Joan Stevenson and Lorna Tarbat
Those New Girls
Hildegarde Paris-London -New York and the one and only
Douglas Byng
The Well-known Revue and Cabaret Star
Compere, Eric Barker
The Orchestra conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
with JUDY SHIRLEY , RONNIE O'DELL , and JACK, JOCK, and JIMMIE