and BOCCHERINI
Members of the London Harpsichord Ensemble:
John Francis (flute) Olive Zorian (violin)
Peter Mountain (violin)
Bernard Davis (viola)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Julian Bream (guitar)
A talk by Professor A. G. Lehmann on Prosper Merimee's letters to Ivan Turgenev, published recently
Mérimée, like other notable French novelists of the nineteenth century, was an inexhaustible letter-writer. In the latter part of his life, which spanned two republics and the reigns of three kings and two emperors, he corresponded with the Russian novelist Turgenev, and discussed with him everything from court gossip to Russian literature.
An opera in three acts Words by Felix Wolfes
Music by Hans Pfitzner
(sung in German)
archbishops, bishops, choristers of the Sistine Chapel, nobles, theologians, servants, soldiers
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera
Conductor, Robert Heger
Time: November and December 1563
Act 1
A room in Palestrina's house in Rome
Robert Graves introduces and reads a selection from his own poetry
Act 2
A hall in the palace of Cardinal Madruscht at Trent. A week later
by Otto Demus author of ' Byzantine Mosaic Decora tion ' and ' The Mosaics of Sicily and President of the Austrian
Fine Arts and Monuments Service
Professor Demus describes how, by a combination of historical and archaeological method, h: recently discovered a hitherto unknown cultural and artistic movement that swept through Venice in the thirteenth century. In th; light of this discovery a number of famous Venetian works of art, mainly in St. Mark's itself, can be re-dated, and take on a new aspect.
Act 3
The same as Act 1. A fortnight latet
Second of two talks on some questions about liberalism and morals by Guido Calogero
Professor of Philosophy at Rome University
