The Basil Lam Sonata Ensemble:
Richard Adeney (flute) Patrick Halling (violin) Marjorie Lavers (violin)
Terence Weil (cello)
Basil Lam m (harpsichord)
Propos de Nouvel An by Yvette Guyot
An opera in three acts and an epilogue
A fable by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Music by Stravinsky
The names of those taking part are as printed yesterday at 7.30 p.m.
Act 1
Talk by John Raymond
The speaker argues that John Buchan's novels are some-thing more than good entertainment, and that his work has a unity derived from ' a philosophy of Adventure.'
Act 2
by Angus Maude , M.P .
Have * intellectuals ' a natural bias towards left-wing views in politics? Mr. Maude examines this popular belief and suggests the motives that lead highly educated people to become political partisans.
Act 3 and Epilogue
Four programmes devised and presented by Ernest Borneman with recordings made in the field by Arthur S. Alberts
1-Indigenous Patterns
An analysis of the functions of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre in West African music
Technical illustrations by Philip Gbeho
Robert Graves chooses and Introduces a number of poems
Reader, John Laurie
Sonata in G miinor, Op 5 No. 2 played by Gragor Piatigorsky (cello)
Artur Schnabel (piano) on gramophone records
