in 'Songs and Syncopation '
(From West of England)

BBC Military Band, conducted by Walton O'Donnell : Polovtsian Dances (Nos. 1-4) (Prince Igor) (Borodin)
Harold Williams (baritone): In an old-fashioned Town (W. H. Squire ). 0 Falmouth is a fine Town (Ronald)
BBC Military Band: Slavonic
Rhapsody (Friedmann)
Harold Williams (baritone) and BBC Male Chorus: The Lincolnshire Poacher (trad.). Bonnie wee Thing (Fox)
La Garde Republicaine Band, conducted by Pierre Dupont: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt, arr. Dupont). Grand March (Tannhauser) (Wagner)

by David Branson
(Midland)

' Riding Races'
Captain Eric Rickman
(' Robin Goodfellow ' of the Daily Mail) and Freddie Fox
(A recording of a talk previously broadcast in the Empire programme)

by The Kutcher Trio :
Samuel Kutcher (violin)
Douglas Cameron (violoncello)
Harry Isaacs (pianoforte)
Samuel Kutcher won his first scholarship at the age of nine, and in the same year appeared at the old St. James's Hall just before it was pulled down. He played at Queen's Hall when he was ten. He won seven scholarships, was a member of the Queen's Hall Orchestra when he was sixteen, and plays on a fine Rogerius violin.
Douglas Cameron studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he is now a professor, and was for a time principal cello of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and of the British National Opera Company.
Harry Isaacs entered the Royal
Academy of Music when he was fifteen, and first broadcast in 1927. A professor and examiner at the Royal Academy oT Music, he went to Australia to examine in 1930, and was over in Canada last summer for the same purpose.

at the organ of the Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle
Trocadero Sing Song

Prologue, Acts 1 and 2 of the opera by Rimsky-Korsakov from the Sadler's Wells Theatre
The action takes place in the prehistoric land of Tsar Berendey
Cast in order of appearance :
Youths and maidens, people, blind singers, boyars' wives and birds
The Sadler's Wells Orchestra
Leader, Joseph Shadwick
Conductor, Lawrance Collingwood
Chorus Master, Geoffrey Corbett
Producer, Clive Carey
2.30 Prologue : The Red Mountain near the Tsar's capital
Prologue: The music suggests the coming of spring. The wintry Wood Spirit (tenor) goes to sleep, and the arrival of the Spring Fairy (mezzo-soprano) is followed by songs and dances of the still half-frozen birds.
But King Frost (bass) has not yet left he has waited to discuss with Spring the future of their daughter, the Snow Maiden (soprano), outwardly as fair as Spring, inwardly as cold as Winter. They decide that she shall be adopted by a couple of old peasants, Bobil and Bobilikha (tenor and mezzo-soprano).
Peasants rush in, celebrating the carnival season" and Snow Maiden is duly found and adopted.

Act 1: AH the young men are in love with Snow Maiden, but she has ears only for the songs of the Shepherd Lei (contralto). The merchant Mizgir (baritone) arrives to marry his betrothed, Kupava (soprano), but jilts her directly he sees Snow Maiden. The peasants are furious and tell Kupava to seek justice from the Tsar.
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William Teeling

Scene : The palace of the Tsar
Berondey
Act 2: Blind gusli-players sing the praises of the Tsar (tenor), who is worried by the anger of the Sun God (aroused by Snow Maiden's presence in the country). The Tsar is consulting with Bermyata (bass) when Kupava enters with her complaint. Mizgir is tried and condemned to exile-unless he can win Snow Maiden's love by the next day.