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(Section E)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Frank Bridge
'There is a Willow'
Frank Bridge's impression for small orchestra, ' There is a Willow', is based on the Queen's tale of Oohelia's death. Many listeners will remember the lines:-
There with fantastic garlands did she come.
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples. and when the willow broke, and she
... fell in the weeping brook, her clothes spread wide.
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up ;
What time she chanted snatches of old tunes until her heavy garments pull'd her down to death. But vividly as the few phrases can bring a picture of the tragedy before us-poignant and tender in its sorrow—Bridge's music is not to be taken as illustrating it line by line ; it is just a reflection of its.mood.
Dvorak's Fourth Symphony
When he was invited to conduct at a concert of the London Phil harmonic Society in 1890, Dvorak brought with him the score and parts of a new symphony, which was exceedingly well received. This was the Fourth Symphony (Op. 88, in G), one of his most delightful works, brim-full of lovely melody and scored with. those transparent orchestral colours that infallibly proclaim the hand of Dvorak.
No other composer has ever come so near to Schubert's ' linked sweetness long drawn out ', and this symphony is one of the most Schubertian of all his works.

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Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Conducted By:
Frank Bridge

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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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