Sophie Wyss (soprano)
Gareth Morris (flute)
The Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot Macgibbon (violin)
Lorraine du Val (violin)
Jean Stewart (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello)
Peggy Shimmin 's arrangement of three French folk songs (' Le coucou,' ' Une fillette a sa poupee,' and ' Oui, Monsieur Polichinel ') was brought forward last January by the Society for the Promotion of New Music. At a concert given by the Society in 1948 the first five movements of William Bardwell 's Diablotins ' were played; the remaining five#moveimenits were added two years later, and tonight-the complete work is being performed for Che first time.
' The Open Society and its Enemies ' by Karl Popper reviewed by William Clark
'-The Open Society and its Enemies' was first published in 1945 and has now been re-issued. William Clark suggests that Professor Popper's * philosophy of moderation,' and his criticism of the ideal societies proposed by Plato and Marx, provides a theory of politics the application of which in practice might effectively meet the needs of our present situation.
Opera in three acts
English translation by Edward J. Dent
Music by Mozart
Cast in order of singing:
Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Marcus Dods )
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, Walter Price)
Conductor, James Robertson
Producer, Clive Carey
The action takes place on the Turkish coast ia the Pasha Selim 's palace
Arthur Jacobs' 'Music Diary' —p. 5
Act 1
Outside the Pasha Selim 's palace
7.45 app. Interval
7.55 app. Act 2
The garden of the palace harem
8.55 app. Interval
9.5 Act 3
A terrace outside the harem overlooking the sea
During the intervals Christopher Pemberton reads from 'The Letters of Mozart and his Family,' translated by Emily Anderson
by Sophocles
Translated by E. F. Watling
Music by Anthony Bernard
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
with the London Chamber Singers and the London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper .)
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
The ' Oedipus at Colonus ' was probably first produced in Athens in 401 B.C., after the poet's death.
(Godfrey Kenton is appearing in The Young Elizabeth' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
Wind Ensemble of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra