Comment and Action
A series of programmes designed to introduce great English and foreign plays that are seldom performed in this country
4-Ibsen's
' EMPEROR AND GALILEAN '
Selections from the play translated by William Archer , with a commentary by J. C. Trewin
Music composed by Clifton Parker and conducted by John Hollingsworth
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
With Allan McClelland as Prince Julian (later Emperor), and Ernest Milton as Maximus, the Mystic
Others taking part are Ann Codring ton, Heron Carvic , and David Kossoff
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Roger Desormiere
Part 1
The second of two talks by Professor J. Isaacs dealing with the Bible in English literature
Part 2
by Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell
Including ' How Not To' and ' How They Used To.' A new edition of middle-period ' How,' demonstrated by Joyce Grenfell and select members of the ' 'How' Repertory Company
Produced by Stephen Potter
Jo Vincent (soprano)
Frederick Stone (piano) i Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin), Leonard Dight (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)
String Quartet in E
Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren
(Mayrhofer)
Auf dem Wasser zu singen (Stolberg) Das Madchen (Schlegel)
Die Manner sind mechant (Seidl) An Emma (Schiller)
Fruhlingsglaube (Uhland) Im Frlihling (Schulze)
Das Lied im Griinen (Reil)
Quartet movement in C minor
A talk by Carl Dolmetsch , based on contemporary evidence, about how the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters wished their music to be played. Illustrated by the speaker and by Joseph Saxby (harpsichord)