by Mikhail Prishvin
A programme of readings about winter taken from ' The Lake and the Woods: or Nature's Calendar ' by Mikhail Prishvin , in the translation by W. L. Goodman
Reader, Carleton Hobbs
Mikhail Prishvin , writer and naturalist, was born in 1873. He thus belongs to the older generation of Russian writers, but he is popular in Russia today and is still contributing to periodicals there. The book from which these extracts are taken dcscribes the lives of birds, animal, and men during the course of the seasons in the country round Lake.Pleshchcyevo.
Yfrah Neaman (violin)
Howard Ferguson (piano)
An ' Era of Good Feelings' for America ? by Max Lerner
A talk on some of the trends of thinking and feeling i'n America at the threshold of what future historians may call ' The Age of bisenhower.'
or ' The Verbiage Collector
A tribute to a minor daemon who, by his assiduity and pertinacity in the collection of vain and unmeaning sounds, sank to greatness: inscribed for radio by Michael Ayrton
Together with offerings by Paganini, Meyerbeer, Balfe, Sullivan, Mossolov, Wagner and others, and John Buckland : orchestra conducted by John Hollingsworth
Production by Francis Dillon
A tragedy in one act
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera
Conductor, Georg Solti
Scene: Mycenae in classical times
by C. Day Lewis
C. Day Lewis reads six poems which compose a section of his longer poem of travel ' An Italian Visit.' Some stanzas on Florence introduce a series of parodies or pastiches, in which he suggest* the possible reactions of five twentieth-century poets to some of the paintings and sculpture displayed in the city.
String Quartet No. 2, in F minor,
Op. 92 (Prokofiev) : played by the Hollywood String Quartet
Piano Quintet, Op. 57 (Shostakovich): played by the Quintetto Chigiano on gramophone records
Talk by Philip Hope-Wallace
A consoling memory, at this time of national strain, of an exceptionally exhausting Christmastide spent in provincial France.
