Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)
Ernest Lush (accompanist)
Helen Pyke and Paul Hamburger
(piano duet)
S. C. Harland , F.R.S., gives the last of three talks on some aspects of genetics
The speaker Is Professor of Botany In the University of Manchester
A play by W. B. Yeats
Strong sitiew and soft flesh Are foliage round the shaft Before the arrowsmith
Has stripped it, and I pray That I. all foliage gone,
May shoot into my joy ...'
This strange play, which has been performed only once, was the work of the older and outspoken Yeats. Yeats learned his stagecraft by studying a play of Corneille. In The Heme's Egg, mors than in his other plays, one finds that severity of line and economy of words and image that mark the mature Yeats -almost, indeed, as if the play had been thought backwards and written forwards. with music for flute, percussion, and singer composed and directed by Humphrey Searle
Production by W. R. Rodgers
A dramatic oratorio by Handel
Continuo:
Katharine Thomson (harpsichord)
Raymond Clark (cello)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian )
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Second of two performances
Aotl
Susanna - Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Her attendant - Mary Lake (soprano)
Joachim - Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Daniel - William Herbert (tenor)
First Elder - Jan van der Gucht (tenor)
Second Elder - George James (bass)
Chelslas - Richard Standen (bass)
A Judge - Richard Standen (bass)
Talk by William Townsend
Sidney Cooper was one of the most successful painters of his time, and his canvas (nine feet by seven) ' The Monarch of the Meadows ' was sold for two thousand guineas in 1873. He was pleased with his own success and seemed to have all the talent and skill he needed. But his success seems to convey a warning also to a modem painter.
Act 2
Education: its Problems and Prospects Second of three talks by T. H. Marshall
German concern for unity and stability is as great today as in the past. The speaker, vho was Educational Adviser to the British High Commissioner in Germany 1949-1950, describes in these talks some of the impressions he formed during that period, especially with regard to education and to the attitudes and views of people he met.
Last talk: Friday
Act 3
A story by Donagh MacDonagh
Read by Harry Hutchinson
Piano Trio in B flat, Op. 99 played by the Harry Isaacs Trio:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) James Whitehead (cello)
Harry Isaacs (piano)
by Samuel Johnson
