(All arrangements by Medvedeff)
All the instrumentalists in this new ensemble, which is to give its first broadcast this morning, are drawn from the Medvedeff Balalaika Orchestra. Zaaloff, balalaika prima and vocalist, also broadcasts with the Slavonic Quartet ; Hilda Hills , balalaika prima, is only nineteen and was taught the balalaika by Medvedeff ; Wolkowsky, domra prima, was introduced to the orchestra by his father, who played in it ; Medvedeff himself is domra viola ; Ray Prince , bass and guitar, began playing in the orchestra when he was seventeen and was the first to play the electric guitar in England.
' Moscow ', to be played by the Quintet this morning, is a piece of contemporary Russian music that has become very popular in Russia during the last three months. It will be its first broadcast over here.
Eileen Vaughan soprano and Ruby Taylor and Francis Keyte
Four hands and two pianos
Presented by Leslie Bridgmont
(West)
Dona d Foster
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
(Plymouth Division)
(6y permission of Brigadier R. C. A.
Giunicke)
Conducted by Major F. J. Ricketts ,
Director of Music, Royal Marines
Finale from Symphony No. 5, in E minor (From the New World)
Dvořak
Overture, The Hunt......Alford
(Solo trumpet, Cpl. w. BANNING)
La Benediction des Poignards (The
Benediction of the Daggers) (Lcs Huguenots) Meyerbeer
Clarinet Polka, The Merry Musicians
Mainzer, arr. Erbs
Regimental March of H.M. Royal
Marines, A Life on the Ocean Wave Russell, arr. Alford
played by Geraldo and his Dance Orchestra
(by permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd)
Gramophone records of Fats Waller
Presented by Alan Coppin