Illustrated talk by Victor McCunu
Singing and dancing play a large part in the daily life of the Zulus. In this talk Victor McCunu describes and sings some of his people's folk songs.
(The recorded broadcast of April 21)
Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
London Mozart Players
(Leader, Max Salpeter )
Conductor, Harry Blech
First of four programmes
P. E. Russell , Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford, reviews the recently published book by Menendez Pidal followed by an interlude at 7.20
British Contemporary Music
The English Opera Group presents
'ALBERT HERRING '
Opera in three acts and five scenes
Libretto by Eric Crozier
Music by Benjamin Britten
(Continued in next column)
The English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Hans Geiger )
Conducted by Norman Del Mar
From the Opera House, Cheltenham
The action of the comedy takes place during April and May of the year 1900 at Loxford, a small market town in East Suffolk
Act 1
Scene 1: The morning room in Lady Billows' house
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop
8.35 Interval
8.45 Act 2
Scene 1: A marquee in the Rectory garden
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop
9.45 Interval
9.55 Act 3
Mrs. Herring's shop
Second of two programmes arranged and introduced by John Bryson
Readers:
James McKechnie , Gerik Schjelderup
Sonata in F, Op. 99 played by Pau Casals (cello)
MieczysJaw Horszowski (piano) on gramophone records
Twenty-second of a series of reports on the Soviet point of view as expressed in the Soviet Press and broadcasts directed to listeners .n the U.S.S.R.