' What sort of music ? '
E. W. Goss
Ronald Biggs
Harry Evans
A round-table discussion about the relative value and interest of dance and classical music
All three speakers in this discussion are well known to listeners in the West of England. With Ronald Biggs , in a talk broadcast two years ago, E. W. Goss , who is music director of the Torquay Municipal Orchestra, has already put forward his views on the ticklish subject of classical and dance music. With Harry Evans , leader of the popular dance band, making it a three-cornered discussion, there should be many new points brought out.

Harold Fairhurst (violin)
Winifred Davey (pianoforte)
The Clifton String Orchestra
Leader, Joan Allen
Conducted by Reginald Redman
Written during 1924-5, for Bloch's pupils at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Concerto Grosso is constructed on the same general principles as the concerti grossi of Bach and Handel. That is to say, groups of solo instruments detach themselves from the main body of strings and then rejoin them in tutti passages. The piano part fulfils much the same function as the eighteenth-century cembalo, doubling the strings and having practically no solo passages.
Yet the Concerto is not a mere pastiche. It bears the unmistakable stamp of Bloch's artistic personality.