Discussion by experts on various techniques whose fusion constitutes the technique of ballet
Speakers: Arnold Haskell (Director of Sadler's Wells School), Frederick Ashton (choreographer), Constant Lambert (composer and conductor). Michael Ayrton (designer), and Michael Hordern (layman)
Edited and produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith
Stephen Wearing (piano)
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
Harry Blech (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Yfrah Neaman (violin)
Howard Ferguson (piano)
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In this talk Webster's melodramas are reconsidered as plays expressing Webster's belief in a social and personal order of life
3—' The Death of a Friend ' by Terence Tiller with Cathleen Nesbitt. Alan Wheatley
Hugh Burden , Barbara Lott and Michael Flanders
Production by Robert Gittings
' The Death of a Friend ' is concerned with the implications, as felt by a small group of friends, of the death of one of their number in Egypt during the recent war. The writer projects himself in imagination into the personalities of the other friends; but gradually their voices return into each other until only his personal insight remains
Dorian Singers
Conductor, Matyas Seiber
Amadeus String Quartet Jorgen Laulund (violin)
Kenneth Essex (viola)
Chorus:
Jubilate Deo: Super flumina; In hora ultima; Aus meinem Siinden; Ich weiss mir ein Meidlein
Strings:
Sinfonia a sei
Chorus:
Bonjour mon coeur; Quand mon mary; Qui se frotte; Matona mia cara; Villanella
(The choral items are recorded)
Talk by Honor Tracy, who has just returned to this country after spending several months in Japan
She feels that behind the charming and ingenuous front that is shown to the Occupation the heart of Japan remains unchanged
(A Peep-Show in Paradise) by Laurence Housman
Adapted for radio by Peggy Wells
Music by John Buckland
Produotion by E. J King . Bull
Quartet in B flat, Op. 18 No. 6 played by the Loewenguth String Quartet
by J. L. Hammond
Sonata for violin and piano played by Issay Shlaen (violin)
Frederick Stone (piano)