Light Music by British Composers

A glimpse of preparations for the Variety broadcast from the Alexandra Theatre , Hull, this evening

Herta Gluckmann (contralto)
Eileen Ralph (pianoforte)
Herta Gluckmann , who was born near Breslau in Germany, comes of musical parents. Both her mother and her father were professional musicians. She studied in Vienna and Berlin.
She received her first engagement to broadcast when only sixteen years old and made such a success of it that it led to recitals in Breslau and later in Berlin and Vienna. There followed a tour of Holland in which she gave nine recitals and broadcast from Hilversum.
She has broadcast from that station once a year since. She has now made her home in England, and gave her first broadcast in this country in 1934. Herta Gluckmann specialises in German lieder singing, though she can sing in five languages, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and English.
Eileen Ralph was born in Perth,
Western Australia. She began her musical studies at an early age and -gained her Associated Board Scholarship at sixteen. At the Royal Academy of Music she won distinctions in piano, singing, and composition, including the Macfarren Gold Medal.
She gave her first recital at the Wigmore Hall in 1934, and has since broadcast a good many times, and has appeared at orchestral and other important concerts in the provinces.

1.0 The Ramblers Dance Band Conductor, Theo Uden Masman

Conductor, Benedict Silbermann
Vocalists
Len Connell
Bert van Dongen from Hilversum

Sandy Macpherson at the BBC Theatre Organ

from the Carlton Hotel

The BBC Midland Orchestra
Leader, Alfred Cave Conducted by Leslie Heward

A programme -of gramophone records
Arranged by Reg Holmes