Carl Dolmetsch (recorder)
String Ensemble
Joseph Saxby (harpsichord)

A critical review by Wilfrid Blunt of this famous horticultural event, held last week

Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
Colin Horsley (piano)
7.10 Interlude

A portrait of the lyric poet Robert Herrick, Vicar of Dean Prior in Devon
Written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Songs by Henry Lawes,
Nicholas Laneare and William Webb transcribed from contemporary song-books by Douglas Cleverdon, and arranged by Elizabeth Poston sung by Elsie Suddaby,
Rene Soames and Diana Maddox with Zorian String Quartet
Leon Goossens (oboe d'amore) Frederick Stone (harpsichord)

A romantic opera in three acts
Music by Weber Libretto by Friedrich Kind
(The dialogue of Agathe, Aennehen, and Max spoken by Renate Densow, Eve Gotthardt, and Reinhold Nietschmann)
Narrator, Leslie Perrins
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (Chorus-Master, Max Thurn)
Conducted by Wilhelm Schuchter
The scene is laid in Bohemia, shortly after the Seven Years War
Act 1
An open space before an inn in the forest

1863.1913 by A. P. Ryan
' Wyndham was the most brilliant young Conservative who had appeared since Balfour, but he was not destined to be equally fortunate.' That is the verdict of a modern Oxford historian on George Wyndham as a politician. This talk describes him as a man. Aristocrat, romantic, Guards officer in the desert, friend of Henley, holder of several ministerial posts ending in a sensational loss of office-Wyndham had a crowded life story in his fifty years

Act 2
Scene 1: A room in the head forester's cottage
Scene 2: The wolf's glen

' An Apologist of the Soul'
A talk by Paul Bloomfield

Act 3
Scene 1: Agathe's room
Scene 2: An open space in the country