Talk by G. H. Heath Gracie (organist and master of the choristers, Derby Cathedral), introducing a series Of programmes to begin next Tuesday
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Doris Gambell (soprano)
Orchestral music has played an important part in Northern broadcasting since the earliest days of British radio, when transmissions from the North were flashed from the famous . 2ZY' aerial attached to the top of the Westinghouse Tower in Trafford Park, Manchester. The first ' 2ZY ' Orchestra was under the conductor-ship of Dan Godfrey , son of the late Sir Dan Godfrey who for many years did so much for contemporary British music by his concerts from the Bournemouth Pavilion. Later the orchestra was re-formed and named the Northern Wireless Orchestra. under which title it played for some years under the baton of T. H. Morrison.
The present-day BBC Northern Orchestra first broadcast in October 1934. In those days-and for some time-with a strength of thirty-five players it formed the nucleus of the Halle Orchestra. When T. H. Morri son retired, he was followed by Foster Clark and later by Gideon Fagan. In September 1944 Charles Groves was appointed permanent conductor, since when he has conducted some six hundred concerts from the North Region in addition to undertaking guest engagements with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Orchestra, Halle Orchestra. BBC Symphony Orchestra, etc. He has a great sense of adventure in music and is keenly interested in new composers and their works. The leader of the Orchestra is Reginald Stead. Its permanent strength is at present fifty players and it gives an average of six broadcasts a week to a world-wide audience.
In its programme tonight the Orchestra is conducted by Clarence Raybould , and includes two pieces by the contemporary Norwegian composer, Saeverud.
R. H. Hilton , Lecturer in History at Birmingham University, compares these two forms of peasant proprietorship in fourteenth-century Leicestershire and in the twentieth-century Levant
' Virgate ' was the name of an English villein's holding under medieval feudal agriculture. A ' Feddan ' is a peasant cultivator's holding in modern Syria
In six miniatures for voice and piano by Charles Villiers Stanford
Words from
' Songs of the Glens of Antrim ' by Moira O'Neill
Robert Irwin (baritone)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Corrymeela: The Fairy Lough; Cuttin' Rushes: Johneen; A Broken Song; Back to Ireland
by George Farquhar
Adapted for broadcasting by Ronald Simpson
Produced by Felix Felton
With Rene Soames (tenor) and Frederick Stone (harpsichord
John Harvey discusses the methods and traditions of the men who built the great medieval cathedrals
Piano Sonata in E, Op. 14 No. 1 Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. Ill played by Solomon
A comparative study by Jonathan Curling of the careers of Richard Savage , Thomas Griffiths Waine wright, and Richard Dadd
