Sir Richard Livingstone , President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, describes an evening class held in Chicago under the Great Books Scheme
He gives some details of the Scheme itself, which was originated by Robert Hutchins , Chancellor of Chicago University.
An entertainment for speaking voice, and seven instruments
Poems by Edith Sitwell
Music by William Walton
Speaker, Constant
Lambert Edward Walker (flute)
Bernard Walton (clarinet)
Wilfred Hambleton (bass clarinet)
Walter Lear (alto-saxophone)
Harold Jackson (trumpet) James Blades (-percussion)
Raymond Clark (cello)
Conducted by Leighton Lucas
Fifth of a series of Friday-evening commentaries on current affairs by the Editor of The Economist
Diana Vernon (soprano) Anne Wood (contralto) Richard Lewis (tenor) Bruce Boyce (baritone)
George James (bass)
Gioconda de Vito (violin)
Renzo Sabatini (viola d'amore)
Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba)
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Geraint Jones (organ, harpsichord)
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Part 1
A Great Nineteenth-Century Gardener Geoffrey Taylor holds that William Robinson had as much influence on the cultural destinies of England as many a statesman and many a poet
Robinson produced two masterpieceshis book ' The English Flower Garden' and his own garden at Gravetye
Part 2
A lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Part 1
Overture, Men of Prometheus
(Beethoven): Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. conducted by Felix Weingartner
Prometheus (Wolf): Freidrich Schorr
(baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Heger on gramophone records
Part 2
Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano played by Yfrah Neaman (violin)
Howard Ferguson (piano)