Programme devised and introduced by Dom Anselm Hughes , O.s.B.
The Bodley Singers and instrumental ensemble
Conducted by Bernard Rose
Carnival Song: Orientis partibus (The
Song of the Ass) (c. 1223)
Free Organum: Catholicorum concio
(twelfth century)
Dance tunes from a St. Andrews manuscript (c. 1250)
Carol for three voices: Verbum patris humanatur (thirteenth century)
Middle English Song; Fowles in the Frith (c. 1270)
Descant from Worcester: Beata viscera (c. 1280)
Early fourteenth - century motets:
Super te, Jerusalem (four-part); Triumphat hodie (three-part with Hocket); Rondel for three baritones, Fulget caelestis curia
Christmas Sequence: Glad and Blithe
(c. 1425)
Song for alto voice and gamba: I rede that thou be jolly and glad (c. 1425)
Regali Magnificat , for five voices, by Robert Fayrfax (c. 1500)

by Arnold Haskell
Mr. Haskell traces this influence from the origin of ballet in France to the renaissance that is taking place there at the moment. The most important contribution France has made so far in this century is the part that her painters, musicians, and writers played in the Russian Ballet, under the leadership of Diaghilev and his successors, who, from 1909-1934, made their artistic home in Paris. Today, however, French designers and choreographers are once more beginning to play their full part in ballet

Two Sonatas by Corelli played by Antonio Brosa (violin), and Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord)
Harpsichord music by Couperin played by Aimee van der Wiele

by William Blake

(' The Water Carrier ') An opera in three acts by Cherubini Libretto by Jean Nicolas Bouilly (A studio performance in French)
Soldiers, guards, villagers
BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Clements )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Oscar Lampe )
Conductor,
Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Répétiteur, Leo Wurmser
The action takes place in and around Paris in the year 1647
Act 1
Mikeli's home in Paris

A talk by Robert Jordan on the author of ' The Works of Man ' and ' Form and Colour '
This is the second of three talks about writers on art of the period between Ruskin and Roger Fry

Act 2
At one of the gates of Paris

by the Rev. John A. V. Burke
A film has been made recently in France about the life of Saint Vincent de Paul, the priest who was a pioneer in alleviating misery and poverty in seventeenth-century France. Monsieur Vincent is an example of a film which. perhaps for the first time, deals with a fundamentally religious issue in an uncompromising way. The cost of production was met by a national subscription, as the more usual form of financial backing was withheld on the grounds that the subject had little box-office appeal. Mr. Burke, who is Secretary of the Catholic Film Society and delegate to the Office Catholique Internationale du Cinéma, discusses the many issues raised by this film

Act 3
Semos's farm in the village of Gonesse