A farewell to one of London's intimate theatres by Dame Sybil Thorndike
The Little Theatre was opened in 1910 under Gertrude Kingston's management. It was damaged in the first world war, but was repaired and is-opened in 1920. Further damage was done during the recent war, and it has since been decided to pull down the theatre. Dame Sybil Thorndike , who was the star of the Grand Guignot seasons at the Little from 1920 to 1922, gives some reminiscences of this theatre. She is at present appearing in ' Treasure Hunt ' at the Apollo Theatre, London.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Poems from the Spanish Songbook:
Die ihr schwebet; In dem Schatten meiner Locken; Wer tat deinem Fusslein weh?
Poems by Morike:
In der Fruhe; Auf einer Wanderung; An den Schlaf; Lebe wohl; Nixe Binsefuss; Begegnung; Storchenbotschaft
by Owen Tweedy
The speaker describes his experiences forty years ago at the University of Bonn when the student clubs were in their heyday and the etiquette of duelling a matter for meticulous study.
The Dorian Singers
Conductor, Matyas Seiber
Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis :
August Wenzinger (treble viol)
Marianne Majer (tenor viol) Maya Wenzinger (tenor viol) Gertrud Fluegel (bass viol)
Second of a series of programmes
Translated by Louis MacNeice assisted by E. L. Stahl
Music by Matyas Seiber
Produced by E. A. Harding
Assistant producer, Donald McWhinnie
' Faust Part 2
Programme 2
The Action:
Return to Faust's study: Wagner's laboratory; The Pharsalian Fields: On the Upper Peneios; On the Lower Peneios: The Temple: On the Peneios again; The Aegean Sea
(Continued in next column)
Characters in order of speaking:
Siren's song sung by Hedli Anderson
The New Symphony Orchestra and the Augmented Dorian Singers
Conducted by Matyas Seiber
Miserere
Ave coeli munus supernum Dies Irae
Ena Mitchell (soprano)
John Kentish (tenor)
Alexander Henderson (bass)
Geraint Jones (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
New London Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch )'
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Goethe and Art
Talk by Herbert Read
Tenth of a series of talks
Piano Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35 played by Solomon
Twelfth of a series of programmes
Rufus Buxton introduces a selection of his poetry
Reader, Carleton Hobbs
Production by Frank Hauser
Essay for Orchestra (Barber): Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Violin Concerto (1939) (Hindemith):
Henry Merckel (violin). Lamoureux Orchestra, conducted by Roger Desormiere on gramophone record*
Talk by Millicent. Rose
Millicent Rose , who is engaged in research into the architecture and topography of the East End of London, examines the work of the great Victorian novelists who visited it from outside.
