played by Denis Matthews and Howard Ferguson
Second of two programmes
by Bernard Shaw
Produced by Esme Percy
Part 4:
* Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
Cast in order of speaking:
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 8)
' At For as Thought Can Reach ': Dec. 13
Harry Danks (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Part 1
(first broadcast performance in this country)
See 'Music Diary,' page 7
Mary Scrutton reviews Angus Wilson 's recently published book ' Hemlock and After '
Part 2
This symphony, written towards the end of 1940 at New Haven, Connecticut, was first given in this country in a broadcast performance in 1944. A large orchestra is employed, and there are four movements: Sehr lebhaft, Sehr langsam, Lebhaft, and Massig schnelle Halbe.
Tomorrow William Glock will review Hindemith's book A Composer's World.'
by Edmund Spenser
Programme 10:
' Mirabella and Serena; Pastorella
(Being Cantos 8 and 9 of Book 6)
Produced by Louis MacNeice
Mass : Deus creator omnium
Kyrie; Gloria:
Offertory-Benedictus sit Deus Pater; Sanctus and Benedictus; Agnus Dei sung by the Choir of Brompton Oratory Director, Henry Washington with Ralph Downes (organ)
Introduced by Denis Stevens
Talk by Donald Thomson, Research Fellow in the University of Melbourne
In his second talk on anthropological field-work among the aborigines in the Northern Territory of Australia, Dr. Thomson describes his exploration of the Arafura Swamp - an inland basin hidden in an uncharted part of the Territory - and gives an account of the culture of a tree-dwelling people hitherto unknown in Australia.