Nancy Evans (contralto): The Water Mill (poem by Fredegond Shove) (Vaughan Williams)
Dorothy Helmrich (soprano): The Lamb Child (poem by J.B. Tabb) (d'Arba)
Wilfred Thomas (tenor): Five Eyes (poem by de la Mare) (Armstrong Gibbs)
Nancy Evans (contralto): All night Under the moon (poem by Wilfrid Gibson) (Gurney)
Stuart Robertson (bass-baritone): Spring Sorrow (poem by Rupert Brooke) (Ireland)
Roy Henderson (baritone): Sea Fever (poem by John Masefield) (Ireland)
Nancy Evans (contralto): St. Anthony of Padua (poem by Arthur Symons) (Warlock).
Latmian Shepherd (poem by Edward Shanks) (Gurney)
Parry Jones (tenor): The Fox (poem by Bruce Blunt) (Warlock)
Directed by John MacArthur
'Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour'
(Empire Programme)
Leader, Aldo Spiero from the Hotel Victoria, London
The popular leader of the Hotel Victoria Orchestra comes of a musical family well known in Holland. His brother, Simon Spiero , is also a famous musician, known as the ' King of Marches
Aldo Spiero was born at The
Hague, and began his musical career at the age of nine at the Royal Conservatoire there. When he was seventeen he became a member of the celebrated Residence Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Viotta.
He stayed there for nine winter seasons, playing under a number of distinguished guest conductors.
Aldo Spiero has topped the bill with his Trio (Spiero, violin ; Orazio Fagotti , cellist ; and Edgar Lacey , pianist-these two are still with him in his Hotel Victoria Orchestra) at the Palace Theatre, Halifax, at the Palace, Blackpool, and in a broadcast from the New Winter Gardens, Morecambe.
(To be repeated on Saturday: Midland, 8.30)
Hubert Parry
A recital by Arthur Cranmer (baritone)
A Lover's Garland
To Althea from Prison Nightfall in Winter And yet I love her
Thro' the Ivory Gate
Ye little birds that sit and sing
Parry began his career as a song-writer while still a boy at Eton ; his setting of Moore's ' Why does azure deck the sky ? ' was sung at an Eton College Musical Society concert in 1866 (when the composer was eighteen) and published the same year. In later years the solo song remained one of Parry's favourite forms, and the twelve books of ' English Lyrics '-the first published early in the 1880's, the last two posthumously in 1920-are a remarkable anthology of fine English verse sensitively set to music.
This afternoon's programme is drawn from the third, sixth, seventh, and eighth books of ' English Lyrics ' (1895-1907).
at the Organ of the Empire Theatre,
Coventry
Presented by Frank A. Terry from the Floral Pavilion,
New Brighton
The company includes Lauri Jaye; Claud Branston; Wilson Harvey; Elsie Winnall; Edith Price; Ernest Hargreaves; Betty Elguira; Pat Terry; Dwyer and Dwyer; Madame Helena Lehmiski's Young Ladies
