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Ouverture quixotte (Telemann)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS
Directed by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER
7.18. Five Vauxhall Songs
(J. C. Bach)
ELSIE MORISON (soprano) with the BOYD NEEL ORCHESTRA
Directed by THURSTON DART
7..38* Cassation in G major for orchestra and children's instruments (Leopold Mozart)
BERLIN BACH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARL GORVIN on gramophone records

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PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA Leader Max Salpeter
Conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE

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Mendelssohn
Overture: A Midsummer Night's
Dream
PHILHAKMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by PAUL KLETZKI
9.16* Violin Concerto in E minor
ISAAC STERN with the PHILADELPHIAORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY on gramophone records

Transcribed and completed by Hans Redlich and Wolfgang Bötticher
MARGARET KINGSLEY (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
JOHN UNDERWOOD (viola) GEOFFREY CONNAH (piano)
ST. CECILIA PIANO QUARTET

Passepieds; Menuets (Platee) (Ramenu) - Lamoureux Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Louis de Froment

11.7* Harp Concerto in C major (Boieldieu) - Nicanor Zabaleta with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Ernst Marzendorfer

(on gramophone records)

This programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith-G.E, pilot tone stereophonic system from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham and Dover, Kent. To hear the programme in stereophony a special receiver, or an adapter for use with an existing receiver, is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivers will hear the programme monophonically as usual.

Helen Watts (contralto)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In her first programme
HELEN WATTS accompanied by WILFRID PARRY sings

Harpsichord Concerto in B flat major
ROBETT VEYRON-LACROIX (harpsichord)
MUNICH PRO ARTE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KURT REDEL. on a gramophone record

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD with RAYMOND COHEN (violin)

JOHN GARDNER looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in Northern Ireland, Wales, and the West during the next seven days

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Part 2

Leader, David Adams
† Conductor, TERENCE LOVETT

Overture: La dama boba
2.39* Intermezzo (I Quattre rusteghi)
2.44* Suite: I gtoiellt delia
Madonna PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by NELLO SANTI on a gramophone record

(piano)
Mozart Fantasia tn C minor (K.475)
3.14* Sonata No. 8, in A minor
(K310) on a gramophone record

Opera in five acts
Music by Debussy
Words by MAURICE MAETERLINCK
Sung in French on gramophone records
GENEVA THEATRE CHORUS AND THE SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FRNEST ANSERMET
The action takes place tn the kingdom of Allemonde. in medieval times
Golaud finds Mélisande - shy. frightened. and mysterious—lost in the depths of a forest. He persuades her to return with him to sande becomes Golaud's wife. but is oppressed by the gloomy atmosphere of the castle. She and the young Pelléas are attracted to each other; Golaud. increasingly susptcious of them. orders Pelléas to leave the castle. Before parting, Pelléas and Mélisande declare their love. ut Golaud overhears and attacks them. killing Pelléas. After giving birth to a child. Mélisande assures GOlaud that her love for Pelléas was innocent. but Golaud is tormented by doubt. He questions her again. but Mélisande is dead

given by DONALD HUNT
From Leeds Parish Church

Illustrated explanations of some standard musical terms
11: Pedal point by ROGER NORTH

A series of twenty lessons for listeners with a basic knowledge of Spanish Lesson
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO
Script by Maria Victoria Alvarez and Anthony Watson
Produced by George Walton Scott
A booklet Is available

Eight programmes on the American point of view about various aspects of domestic and foreign policy introduced by PROFESSOR H. C. ALLEN
Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History in the University of London
1: Anglo-American Attitudes
These programmes examine, through the voices of Americans, the rather different assumptions on which certain British and American attitudes are based
In this introductory programme Professor Allen talks about some fundamental differences between Great Britain and the United States
Produced by Howard Smith
Eight programmes about the American Novel: Tuesdays at
7.0 p.m.

Two talks on the current state of English studies in our Universities by GEORGE STEINER
2: Ice Axes for the Frozen Sea Mr. Steiner argues for a new and -in his view-more relevant approach to English literature. based on a proper understanding of comparative linguistics and recent politico-social history.

A play for radio by Joe Orton
Wilson forces himself into Mike and Joyce's home and brings terror.
Avis Bunnage as Joyce, Dermot Kelly as Mike and Kenneth Cranham as Wilson.
"Madam Life's a piece in bloom
Death goes dogging everywhere:
She's the tenant of the room,
He's the ruffian on the stair".
(W. E. Henley)
(Third broadcast)

Claudine Collart (soprano) Edith Selig (soprano)
Andr6 Mallabrèra (tenor) Bernard Gallet (tenor) Roger Soyer (bass)
Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume (harpsichord continuo)
Chorus of the French Radio
Chorus-Master, René Alix
Orchestra Lyrique of the French Radio
Leader, André Ovigny
Conducted by André Jouve
Part 1

by JOHN HATCH
Do American Negroes feel a racial bond with Africans? Or are they divorced from these distant cousins by their centuries-long development as Americans-whether bond or free? And have the Civil Rights movement and African nationalism any relation to each other?
Second broadcast

Part 2 From Christ Church Cathedral. Oxford followed by an interlude at 10.50

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