from page 73 of 'New Every Morning'
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, Walton O'Donnell
Overture to an Italian Comedy (Ah, perdona se ti inganno) (Sorry to deceive you!).....Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Benjamin 's ' Overture to an Italian Comedy ' was first performed at a Patron's Fund Concert at the Royal College of Music. It was written as an overture to his opera, Prima Dortna , which has not yet been produced.
The Overture has as sub-title,
' Ah, perdona se ti inganno ', and it would be taking no grave liberty to translate that by the familiar ' Sorry you've been troubled ', though ' inganno' implies deceit rather than mere bother. But there is no doubt whatever that comedy is the inspiration of the overture. The bustling gaiety of the principal theme is irresistible.
The Colombo Octet was formed by Emilio Colombo in 1934 and gave its first broadcast the same year. When Colombo died in 1937, Alexander Rossi , who for four and a half years was leader of the Colombo Orchestra at the Hotel Metropole, London, took his place. The combination of the Octet is exactly the same as when it was formed ; every instrumentalist was a member of Colombo's Orchestra.
Alexander Rossi , whose father was
Italian, was born in England, and went to Italy at the age of nine. He won a scholarship to the Royal Conservatoire at Parma, and studied under Romeo Franzoni. Finishing his course with the highest honours two years before his time, he returned to England at the age of eighteen. He played many times as soloist under Sir Dan Godfrey at Bournemouth, served for three and a half years with the Middlesex Regiment during the war, and in 1919 played at the British Empire Leave Club to the Army of Occupation on the Rhine.
Popular dance music and songs on gramophone records
from the Granada, Walthamstow (Soloist, ART LARGE )
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bart. : Polovtsian March (Prince Igor) (Borodin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr , solo pianoforte Egon Petri: Concerto No. 1, in B flat minor-I Allegro non troppo. 2 Andantino semplice. 3 Allegro con fuoco (Tchaikovsky)
A commentary on the international Rugby Union football match, by H. B. T. Wakelam , from Twickenham
with Paula Green
and The BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by the famous
Danish conductor
Otto Lington with Gerda and Ulric Newman
(by permission of Jack Hylton )
Listeners will enjoy once again hearing Carl Brisson , the well-known Danish star of stage and screen.
Otto Lington broadcasts regularly from Copenhagen, where he is known as the ' Jack Hylton of Denmark'. He makes about 150 titles a year on gramophone records, plays for Scandinavian sound-pictures, and has been a popular figure of most of the leading clubs, hotels, and restaurants in Scandinavia.
Gerda Newman and Ulric Newman, who are also Danish, are respectively vocalist and guitar
N player in Jack Hylton 's band, and are celebrated for their close-harmony singing.
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Vlado Perlemuter (pianoforte)
ORCHESTRA
Fantasia in F minor (for a mechanical clock) Mozart (orch. Eric Warr )
6.58 VLADO PERLEMUTER AND
ORCHESTRA
Pianoforte Concerto in C, Op. 36
Roussel
1 Allegro molto. 2 Adagio. 3 Allegro con spirito
Vlado Perlemuter , French pianist, was born in Lithuania in 1904. At the age of eleven he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Cortot, and carried off the Piano Prize (1919) and the Prix d'Honneur (1920). In the following year he won the Prix Diemer.
He has since then played as soloist with the Societe des Concerts du
Conservatoire, Concerts Colonne, Orchestre Svmphonique de Paris, and various musical centres on the Continent. Vlado Perlemuter last broadcast in London in 1934.
For the Sixth Season and One Hundred and Eighty-Fifth 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
YORKY AND SCOTTY
Two Close Friends-Very Close
' ROSES OF PICCADILLY '
The Flower-Sellers of Eros, including
Alice Lloyd , etc.
BIG BILL CAMPBELL and his Hill-Billy Round-Up
TESSIE O'SHEA
Just Bubbling Over
GEORGIE WOOD
The Peter Pan of Vaudeville (by permission of George Black) assisted by Dolly Harmer
THE BBC VARIETY
ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES SHADWELL
Presented by JOHN SHARMAN
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
Raymond Gram Swing
(From America)
' Conducted by the Composer '
Tonight the following well-known composers of British light music will conduct the BBC Theatre Orchestra (leader, Tate Gilder ) in a programme of their own compositions
John Ansell Eric Coates
Herman Finck Roger Quilter
Montague Phillips Arthur Wood
Haydn Wood
from a selection by John C. Maude
with Pat Taylor
Hughie Diamond from Ciro's
Popular dance tunes of past years