' LA CENERENTOLA'
('Cinderella')
An opera in two acts
Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
Music by Rossini
Cast in order of singing:
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum ) Conducted by Vittorio Gui
Square-piano continuo played by Alfonso Gibilaro
Produced by Carl Ebert
From Glyndebourne
Act 1
Sc. 1: A hall in Don Magnifico's castle Sc. 2: A room in Don Ramiro's palace Sc. 3: The grand salon in Don Ramiro 's palace
A new narrative poem by W. R. Rodgers
Read by C. Day Lewis
Quartet in A flat, Op. 105 played by the- Prague String Quartet on gramophone records
Talk by Sir Harold Spencer Jones , F.R.S.
Astronomer Royal
At present cosmologists are discussing two alternative hypotheses as to the origin of the universe. One is that the universe was created at a finite time in the past; the other, that it has existed for an infinite time with creation going on throughout as a continuous process. The Astronomer Royal discusses these alternative views.
Act 2
Sc. 1: The wine cellar of Don Ramiro 's palace
Sc. 2: A room in Don Ramiro 's palace Sc. 3: A hall in Don Magnifico's castle
Sc. 4: The grand salon in Don
Ramiro's palace
Pugin, Ruskin,
Scott Second of four talks by Nikolaus Pevsner
Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge
(Re
Concerto for woodwind, harp, and orchestra played bv
Kraft Thorwald Di'lloo (flute)
Horst Schneider (oboe) Sepp Fackler (clarinet)
Helmut Miiller (bassoon)
Maria Kindler (harp)
Sudwestfunk Orchestra
Conductor, Hans Rosbaud
Canon V. A. Demant reviews the book by Dr. Richard Niebuhr
Piano Sonata in B minor played by Cyril Smith