From page 65 of ' New Every Morning '
' Music and Movement for Juniors'
ANN DRIVER
11.20 A Pianoforte Interlude
by CICELY HOYE
11.30 ' Music and Movement for Infants'
ANN DRIVER
Vera Rae-Stevens (contralto)
Aileen Bransden (organ)
Under the direction of Johan Hock
from Queen's College Chambers Lecture Hall, Birmingham
Ruth Araujo (violin)
Enid Berridge (violin)
Joan Davies (pianoforte)
Interval Music
2.5 Travel Talks
'The Swing of the Seasons'
' In Tropic Seas (South Atlantic)'
A. H. LAURIE
2.25 a Interval Music
2.30 Feature Programmes and Topical Talks
' We Listen'
Boys and girls who listen to school broadcasting will talk about their schools and about life in places where they live. Part of the broadcast will come from England, part from Scotland, and part from Wales
2.50 Interval Music
2.55 Junior English
A story from ' Beowulf '
Devised by JEAN SUTCLIFFE and broadcast by RUTH FIELD
3.15 Talk on Next Week's
Broadcast Music
SCOTT GODDARD
3.35 Talk for Sixth Forms
Introductory Talk
E. M. FORSTER
3.55 Interval
A Comic Opera in a Pastoral Setting
Written in 1768 by Isaac Bickerstaff with music by Charles Dibdin
Adapted for broadcasting by Ursula Branston
Music arranged by Alfred Reynolds
Dramatis Persona Diana Colleen Clifford
Orchestra led by Victor Olof and conducted by Jack Clarke
Production by William MacLurg
(Empire Programme)
Isaac 'Bickerstaff's pastoral comic opera, Lionel and Clarissa, was written in 1768 and produced at Covent Garden the same year with music by Charles Dibdin. Lionel and Clarissa is a typical late eighteenth-century piece. It obviously belongs to the world of She Stoops to Conquer and the comedies of Sheridan, and the characters-the earnest tutor who falls in love with the gentle heroine while teaching her astronomy, Colonel Oldboy, the sporting squire, and his foppish son-are all conceived in the convention of the period.
In adapting the piece for broadcasting, Ursula Branston has worked from the text used in Nigel Playfair 's production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1925. Alfred Reynolds 's arrangement of Dibdin's music, made for that production, will also be used.
including Weather Forecast
Leader, Alfred Barker
Conducted by H. Foster Clark
C. H. Middleton
A short-wave relay of what afternoon listeners in America are hearing this evening
A Programme of Songs and Duets from Famous Operettas with Maria Elsner (soprano)
John Garrick (tenor) and The BBC Theatre Orchestra
The programme arranged and conducted by Stanford Robinson
by Harold Darke from the Concert Hall,
Broadcasting House
Music by British Composers
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
by John Watt ,
Director of Variety
Irene Kohler (pianoforte)
The Laurance Turner
String Quartet:
Laurance Turner (violin) ;
Walter Price (violin) ;
Aubrey Appleton (viola) ;
Jack Shinebourne (violoncello) ;
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) was born near Weimar and became a scholar of the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where he studied under Kuhnau. He founded, a Collegium musicum which eventually led the way to the establishment of the famous Gewandhaus concerts. In
1722 Fasch was appointed Court Kapellmeister at Zerbst, and later was invited to compete for the post of Cantor at the Thomasschule against Bach, but he refused to do so. Bach appears to have held a high opinion of Fasch's music. Not only did he study a number of Fasch's church cantatas, but he actually copied out five of the composer's orchestral suites. Apart from religious music, Fasch wrote various orchestral and chamber works.
Faure had great power of lyrical expression. His music abounds with beautiful and finely drawn melodies. A consummate craftsman and a harmonist of considerable range and subtlety, everything he wrote was polished to the utmost degree and designed with an unerring sense of balance and clarity of style. Above all, he was a miniaturist of genius and his songs and piano pieces rank among the finest of modern times.
with EVELYN DALL SAM BROWNE
VERA LYNN
MAX BACON and THE MANHATTAN THREE from the Cafe de Paris