RECEPTION TEST
2.40 Elementary French
By J. J. OBERLIN , B.A., and Mme.
OBERLIN
8—Prose : ' Une Enigme'
Chantons: Cendrillon
(From Glasgozu)

By A. TURNBULL , M.A.
8— What! Porridge again' ? (Variety)
(From Edinburgh)

(National Programme)

More than fifty years lie between the production of Verdi's first opera and that of his last. His latest music was an amazing advance on the earlier, but one characteristic was his through life -his great gift of typical Italian melody. It is for melody (and, one may almost say, melody alone) that we still prize Verdi's earlier operas. Of such is The Sicilian Vespers (I Vespri Siciliani), which was produced at the Paris Opera during the Exhibition of 1855, but which, for all its auspicious start, was never greatly successful as a whole. Its theme is the massacre of the French invaders of Sicily, who were murdered during Vespers at Eastertide, 1282.
The four scenes in the complete
Ballet represent respectively Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn.

Ballads
C. R. M. BROOKES
Those listeners who have not made a close study of the earlier period of Scottish poetry will find themselves on more familiar ground tonight, when the time will be given to the ballads. It is still true to say that Scotland's incomparable ballads—particularly those localised in the Borders-form an important element in the education of any Scottish child. They are among the first poems learnt and probably remembered after other poetry has been forgotten.
(From Glasgow)

. Relayed from
The St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow
THE SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
Conductor, JOHN BARBIROLLI
INA SOUEZ (soprano)

Talk by WILFRID SENIOR : Orchestral
Music in Scotland'