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by Herbert Dawson from St. Margaret's, Westminster
Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) was a prolific composer in many fields but he is now remembered solely for his organ music, above all for his twenty organ sonatas. It has sometimes been claimed for him that he is the most important organ-composer since Bach. His musical texture has little or nothing in common with Bach's ; it reminds one rather of that of Schumann or Brahms. He was of nothing like the same stature as the old Leipzig master, but his fine seriousness, his spaciousness, and his polished workmanship have earned him a high place in the Pantheon of Organists.

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Dawson
Unknown:
Josef Rheinberger

Herbert Withers (violoncello)
Barbara Withers (pianoforte)
Besides writing a great quantity of music, Charles Wood was famous for many years as a teacher. He taught some of our leading present-day composers, such as Vaughan Williams , and in 1924 he succeeded Stanford as Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He held the post only two years, dying in 1926. Like Stanford, he was an Irishman who settled in England and collected and edited a great many beautiful Irish tunes.

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Withers
Pianoforte:
Barbara Withers
Music:
Charles Wood
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

Songs of the Dutch Wars
H. E. Piggott
In his first talk in this series, on August 23, H. E. Piggott dealt with Elizabethan sea-songs and forebitters. In this discussion of the songs produced by the Dutch Wars of the seventeenth century, he will show how a song of the time of Charles I (probably a thinly-disguised fore-bitter), Matthew Parker 's ballad, ' Saylors for my money', became transformed under the Commonwealth into ' Ye gentlemen of England ', and a century and a half later supplied the basis of Campbell's poem, ' Ye mariners of England.'
Mr. Piggott will also talk about two songs connected with the terrible battle off Lowestoft on June 2 and 3, 1665: Lord Dorset's famous 'To all you ladies now on land ' written on the eve of the battle, and ' The Royal Victory', written after it.

Contributors

Unknown:
H. E. Piggott
Unknown:
H. E. Piggott
Unknown:
Matthew Parker

A reminiscent programme of popular songs
Some of your old favourites recalled by Jack Davies , Jnr., who has devised and arranged the programme, and Ben Frankel who has scored the music and will conduct his orchestra
The tunes you will hear tonight are: Japanese Sandman ; A pretty girl is like a melody; Why do I love you ? ;
The Desert Song; Look for the silver lining; The Girl Friend; Cherie, I love you ; and Auf
Wiedersehen
The Singer is Dorothy Carless

Contributors

Recalled By:
Jack Davies
Recalled By:
Ben Frankel
Unknown:
Dorothy Carless

Part I
WAGNER from Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
Oda Slobodskaya (soprano)
Mary Jarred (contralto)
Parry Jones (tenor)
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
(ninety players)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by SIR HENRY J. WOOD
Overture, Tannhauser
8.18 Prize Song (The Mastersingers) (PARRY JONES)
8.24 Prelude (Tristan and Isolda)
(with Wagner's ending)
8.39 Kundry's Song, Herzeleide
(Parsifal) (MARY JARRED)
8.53 Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine (Gotterdammerung)
9.4 Love Duet, Act 1, Scene 3
(The Valkyrie)
(Sieglinde, ODA SLOBODSKAYA ;
Siegmund, PARRY JONES)
9.33 Huldigungsmarsch (Homage
March)
Tickets can be obtained from [address removed], and usual agents. Prices (including Entertainments Tax): 7s. 6d., 6s., 5s. (reserved), 3s. (unreserved), promenade (payment at doors only) 2s.

Contributors

Tenor:
Parry Jones
Leader:
Paul Beard
Conducted By:
Sir Henry J. Wood

Another anthology of American Humour from the writings of Will
Rogers, Clarence Day ,
George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly , Franklyn Pierce Adams , Don Marquis , Frank Sullivan , Milt Gross ,
Robert Benchley , and Dorothy Parker with Macdonald Parke , Alan Keith ,
Thelma Paige , and Natalie Lynn
The programme arranged and produced by M. H. Allen
American literary humour has a longer tradition than most things American. A country that has produced Mark Twain , Bret Harte , and Joel Chandler Harris-to say nothing of the author of ' Helen's Babies 'has not only given itself a tradition but set itself a high standard.
As listeners will hear this evening, the tradition continues, the standard is maintained. Will Rogers on etiquette, F.P.A.'s impression of two women making a lunch appointment, Robert Benchley 's alleged true story of the death of Rasputin, and Milt Gross 's version of the Ferry Tale about de Fox, witt de Crow, witt de Chizze will bear comparison with anything by the older masters of American literary humour.

Contributors

Unknown:
Clarence Day
Unknown:
George S. Kaufman
Unknown:
Marc Connelly
Unknown:
Franklyn Pierce Adams
Unknown:
Don Marquis
Unknown:
Frank Sullivan
Unknown:
Milt Gross
Unknown:
Robert Benchley
Unknown:
Dorothy Parker
Unknown:
MacDonald Parke
Unknown:
Alan Keith
Unknown:
Thelma Paige
Unknown:
Natalie Lynn
Produced By:
M. H. Allen
Unknown:
Mark Twain
Unknown:
Bret Harte
Unknown:
Joel Chandler Harris-To
Unknown:
Robert Benchley
Unknown:
Milt Gross

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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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