A series of programmes devised by Arnold Goldsbrough
Chamber Orchestra
(Led by Raymond Cohen )
Conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
Last programme in this series: September 21
6-Elegiac
. by Cyril Connolly
Reader, Basil Taylor
Produced by Christopher Hassall followed at 7.5 by Interlude
Oratorio
Words and music by Michael Tippett
Dora van Doom Lindeman
(soprano)
Anny Hermes (contralto)
Franz Vroons (tenor)
Laurens Bogtman (bass)
Beethoven Choir of Amhem
Arnhem Orchestra Conductor, Jan Out
Parts 1 and 2
Michael Tippett , author and composer of ' A Child ot Our Time,' introduces and reads extracts from poetry and prose works that have some bearing on the occasion of this performance
Part 3
by Max Beerbohm
An account of one Ladbroke Brown (dramatist), incorporating a broadcast of his uncompleted tragedy in five acts—' Savonarola'
Arranged for broadcasting by John Cheatle
Produced by Felix Felton
Also St. Francis of Assisi, Leonardo da Vinci. Dante. Cosimo de Medici. Pope Julius II. Cesare Borgia , friars, sacristans, cobblers, apprentices. cloaked figures. Papal Legates, Guelfs. Ghibellines. and other noted figures of the Renaissance played by Laurence Payne. Victor Fairley , Harry Hutchinson. Charles Leno , Lionel Stevens. Duncan Mclntyre , Maria Barry , Ernest Sefton , Alexander Samer , and Arthur Ridley
Quintet for piano and strings played by the Griller String Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin) Jack O'Brien (violin) Philip Burton (viola) Colin Hampton (cello) and Solomon (piano)
A talk by Desmond Shawe -Taylor, on the famous Australian soprano, illustrated by her own recordings