'From Cartoon to Portrait'
D. M. Davin reviews ' Stephen Hero ,' by James Joyce
Frederick Riddle (viola)
Franz Reizenstein (piano)
New London Orchestra (Leader, Max Salpeter )
Conducted by the Composer
Part 1
Five Pieces for strings
Funeral Music for George V, for viola and strings
Theme and Variations (The Four
Temperaments) for piano and strings
Talk by Ian Cox
On May 19, 1845 Sir John Franklin. commanding H.M. ships Erebus and Terror, sailed from Greenhithe to seek a North-West Passage. On June 11. 1847 he died while still in the Arctic-presumably being buried beneath the ice off King William Land.
This evening, on the centenary of Franklin's death, Ian Cox-who himself has done exploration work in the Canadian Arctic-tells of the fate of the expedition and the part it played in leading to the discovery of the North-West Passage
Part 2
Herodiade, for chamber orchestra
(First performance in England)
Adapted by Ronald Barton from the novel by G. K. Chesterton
Music composed by Denis Moonan
Produced by Peter Watts
Others taking part are Edward Brandon. Ann Codrington , Vernon Gibb. Peter Mizen , Bryan Powley. Raf de la Torre , Patrick Crean , and Marcel Poncin
A series of programmes arranged and introduced by Elizabeth Poston
2 — ' Saudades ' and ' The Curlew '
Pierre Bernac (baritone)
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Leon Goossens (cor anglais)
Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin). Leonard Dight (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)
Conducted by Constant Lambert
' Saudades ' and ' The Curlew ' belong to the same period of Peter Warlock 's life, and share a relationship of mood —' that haunting sense of sadness and regret for days gone by ' which lie quotes as Cranmer Byng 's definition of the Portuguese word saudades. for which there is no equivalent in English. The three settings comprising ' Saudades ' were composed in 1917. when Warlock was twenty-three, and and are strongly influenced by his friend. Van Dieren, to whom the first is dedicated.
Warlock spent the year 1917-18 in Ireland where he lived for several months on the Aran Islands. off the coast of Galway. studying the Irish language and reading. In Dublin he took part in the city's artistic life and made the acquaintance of W. B. Yeats , four of whose poems he linked together two years later as ' The Curlew,' with an impressionism that bears witness to his reaction to the Irish landscape. — ELIZABETHPOSTON
Other programmes in the series: June 17, 22, and 26
