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Nature and the National Parks by Brunsdon Yapp
The speaker discusses the extent to which power, water, and afforestation schemes defeat the purpose and change the nature of the National Parks. In particular, he considers the Lake District.
Quartet in E flat, Op. 12 played by the Peter Gibbs String Quartet:
Peter Gibbs (violin) Kelly Isaacs (violin)
Patrick Ireland (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello)
Talk by Daniel George
Some time ago the speaker was. asked to identify a phoenix quotation. He describes a hunt made the more arduous by certain self-imposed rules-that it be conducted alone and that no use be made of a dictionary of quotations.
by Bennet, Gibbons, and Byrd
The Golden Age Singers:
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Ren6 Soames (tenor)
Gordon Clinton (baritone)
Directed by Margaret Field-Hyde
First of three talks by Lord Kinross
Josef Szigeti (violin)
Pierre Fournier (cello)
Scottish National Orchestra
(Leader. Jean Rennie )
Conductor, Walter Susskind
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1
Talk by H. A. Powell
The speaker has recently returned from an anthropological study of the Trobriand islanders.
Part 2
Josef Suk (1874-1935) was the favourite pupil of Dvorak, and the Symphony Asrael was designed as a memorial to the older composer, who died in 1904; in the second movement Suk introduced a quotation from Dvorak RequiemFourteen months later, before the work was completed, Suk's wife Otilie, who was a daughter of Dvorak, also died, and Suk dedicated the final Adagio to her memory. Suk, says a Czech critic, wrote the Symphony ' with his heart's blood.'
Harold Rutland
A study of the events recorded In
George Sand 's travel book
' A Winter in Majorca' by Christopher Sykes , who writes on page 25
Second of two programmes arranged and played by Susi Jeans
From Cleveland Lodge, Dorking