Sonatina ad usum infantis Sonatina seconda
Indianisches Tagebuch played by Philip Levi (piano)
Talk by Raymond Postgate
The speaker recently completed twenty years' service as English representative of an American publisher. He has now retired from this post, and in this talk he comments on the changes in the conditions of American publishing that he has observed during his long experience.
An opera in three acts and a prologue derived from the poem of George Crabbe
Words by Montagu Slater
Music by Benjamin Britten
Townspeople and fisherfolk of The Borough
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson)
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader, Joseph Shadwick)
Conducted by Reginald Goodall
From the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden
Scene: The Borough, a small fishing town on the East Coast of England. About 1830
Prologue
The court-room at the Moot Hall
Act 1
Scene 1: The Borough beach and street. A cold grey morning
Scene 2: Inside 'The Boar.' The same night
During the interval there are readings from George Crabbe 's poem on which the libretto of ' Peter Grimes ' is based
Act 2
Scene 1: The village street and beach.
A fine sunny morning
Scene 2: Peter Grimes ' hut. an upturned boat. Later the same morning
Further readings from George Crabbe 's poem
Act 3
Scene 1: The village street and beach.
A few nights later
Scene 2: The same. Some hours later
by Bertram Joseph
Dr. Joseph has been carrying out research into the technique of Elizabethan acting. Tonight he talks on the close connection between the stagecraft of Shakespeare's players and the traditional art of rhetorical delivery.
by James Monahan
Produced by Robert Gittings
' This man saw Calvary. Yet little sign to show he watched a different horizon from yours, from mine.'
The inner history of a civilian about to make a parachute jump into German-occupied France.
Sextet in C, Op. 37 played by Iris Loveridge (piano)
Philharmonic String Trio:
David Martin (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
James Whitehead (cello)
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
Dennis Brain (horn)
California's Sun in European Skies
Talk by J. E. Morpurgo
