Recordings made at a recent conference of the newly formed Indian branch of the International Society of Contemporary Music
All Akbar Khan (sarode)
Rajaratnam Pillai (nagaswaram)
T. R. Mahalingam (flute)
Madurai Mani Iyer (singer)
Swanandam (veena)
Programme introduced by Scott Goddard
William Clark and Chester Wilmot discuss some of the issues raised in the second volume of Mr. Churchill's war memoirs
Desmond Shawe-Taylor talks about recordings of complete operas, with particular reference to Verdi's ' Un Ballo in Maschera '
Talk by Professor H. B. Charlton
reads his own poems
An edited version of a public reading given at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, under the auspices of the British Council
In the chair. Ernest Burbridge
(piano)
Part 1
(1906-17)
Second of three talks by Hesketh Pearson
The subject of this talk is Sir George Alexander and his long tenancy of the St. James's Theatre, with which the names of Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Pinero, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell are associated.
(Piano recital continued)
Twelve Preludes (Book 2)....Debussy
Brouillards
Feuilles mortes
La puerta del vino
Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses Bruyères
Général Lavine-eccentric
La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Ondine
Hommage a S. Pickwick, Esq. Canope Les tierces alterneea
Feux d'artlflce
A studio performance of the music as written by Cedrio Thorpe Davie for this year's Edinburgh Festival production of Allan Ramsay 's pastoral comedy
Directed by the composer
Introduced by Robert Kemp who adapted the play
(Continued in neat column)
The Singers:
Joan Alexander , Catherine Lawson
William Herbert
Alexander Carmichael
Jean Carrol , Audrey Moncrieff
Andrew Downie , Robert Nicoll Easton
The Musicians:
Gerald Jackson (flute) Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Edward Wilson (bassoon)
Cedric Thorpe Davie (piano)
Produced by Robin Richardson
Fourteenth of a series of reports on the Soviet point of view as expressed In the Soviet Press and broadcasts directed to listeners in the U.S.S.R.
Compiled by members of the BBC's foreign news department
Quartet in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1 played by the Griller String Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin) Jack O'Brien (violin) Philip Burton (viola) Colin Hampton (cello)
