Leader, Tom Jenkins
Conductor, FRANK GOMEZ
Relayed from The Spa, Whitby

Relayed from
The West End Cinema, Birmingham
Pot-pourri,

Relayed from The Savoy Hotel

Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, E. GODFREY BROWN
The Snowmaiden was Rimsky-Korsakov's third opera and one of his most characteristic compositions. (1) The opera opens with an orchestral prelude suggesting the gradual awakening of nature from her winter sleep. (2) The ' Dance of the Birds ' describes the birds' greeting of the spring. (3) The action of the human part of this spring fairy-tale passes in the quaint kingdom of Berendeys, a people who live in fantastically shaped houses painted in many colours and are ruled by a kindly, but despotic, Tsar. Rimsky-Korsakov here describes a procession of the Tsar and his court. (4) Awaiting dawn in the Holy Wood at the spring solstice, the Tsar orders his buffoons to amuse him.

Leader, A. Rossi
Under the direction of EMILIO COLOMBO
Relayed from The Hotel Metropole, London

Relayed from The Dorchester Hotel