from page 29 of ' New Every Morning '

Leader, Alfred Barker
Conductor, H. Foster Clark
Harry Gill (baritone)
The first ' Wand of Youth ' Suite (the second was written very much later) is composed of music that Elgar wrote in 1869 for a children s play, when he was only twelve years old, and revived and scored for orchestra in his maturity. It was first played at a Queen's Hall symphony concert, conducted by Sir Henry Wood , in December, 1907, and has ever since been one of the most popular of Elgar's lighter suites.
Elgar has told us the origin of the idea of the music. ' Some small grievances occasioned by the imaginary despotic rule of my father and mother (The Two Old People) led to the devising of " The Wand of Youth". By means of a stage-allegory (which was never completed) it was proposed to show that the children were never properly understood. The scene was a woodland glade, intersected by a brook. The hither side of this our fairyland. Beyond, small and distant, was the ordinary life which we forgot as often as possible. The characters, on crossing the stream, entered fairyland and wen: transformed.'

at the Organ of the Gaumont State,
Kilburn

Popular dance music and songs on gramophone records

Conductor, William Pethers from the New Hippodrome Theatre,
Coventry

Marjorie Hayward (violin)
G. O'Connor-Morris (pianoforte)
John Ireland's first Violin Sonata in D minor has never enjoyed anything approaching the popularity of its successor in A minor, but, though admittedly a much less mature and individual work than the A minor, it is by no means as inferior to it as one might conclude.
The D minor Sonata was written during 1908-9 for the third of W. W. Cobbett 's famous chamber music competitions, and carried off the first prize from 134 entries. It was published in 1911, but re-issued in a new and more concise form in 1917 (the date of the A minor). Critics have detected the influence of Vaughan Williams in the slow movement and of Grieg in the opening of the finale, but the work as a whole could have been written by no one but Ireland.

at the BBC Theatre Organ

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
' Music from the Far North'
A Series of Four Concerts
2—'Sweden '

including Weather Forecast

(Section C)
Led by Thomas Peatfield
Conducted by W. H. Reed
W. H. Reed joined the London Symphony Orchestra at its formation in 1904, became its leader in 1912 and held this post until a year or so ago. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and has had a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber music player, composer, teacher, and conductor. His compositions include several important orchestral works, such as the tone poems ' The Lincoln Imp' and 'Æsop's Fables' which have been featured in the programmes of the Three Choirs Festivals from time to time, and the Symphony for strings. One of his latest works is the fanciful ' Shock-Headed Peter ' Suite.

For the Sixth Season and One Hundred and Eighty-First time we silence the mighty roar of London and from its great crowds we bring to the microphone some of the interesting people who are
'IN TOWN TONIGHT' introducing
Personalities from every walk of life in interviews with Lionel Gamlin
Flashes from the News of the Week and ' Standing on the Corner'
(Michael Standing interviews the 'Man in the Street')
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan

JACK WARMAN
' Sacked Again'
DONALD PEERS
Radio's Cavalier of Song
LILY MORRIS
Comedienne
BILLY SCOTT-COMBER with his Eight Royal North-West
Mounties
BILLY BENNETT
Almost a Gentleman
THE BBC VARIETY
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES SHADWELL
Presented by JOHN SHARMAN

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

Raymond Gram Swing
(From America)

Listeners' Request Night with Frank Titterton (tenor) and The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe

James McKechnie
(From Scottish)

with Dinah Miller
Pat Taylor
Hughie Diamond from Ciro's

Dance tunes of the last ten years heard again on gramophone records