played by Leonard Cassini
Talk by M. M. Mahood
The form Blake chose for his first, and perhaps his finest, attack on the rational morality of the Enlightenment was that of a children's book (Songs of Innocence and of Experience). He did this deliberately because books for children expose the adult outlook of their time so clearly, and because the Age of Reason was unbendingly rational in its attitude towards them. This programme places these poems of Blake in the context of contemporary writings for children by setting some of his Songs against passages from Newbery's Juvenile Library, the books of Lady Fenn, and the Divine Songs for Children of Isaac Watts (from one of which the title of this programme is taken).
Miss Mahood is a Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford.
Readers: Mary O'Farrell and William Devlin
An opera in five acts
Words by Thomas Corneille
Music by Marc-Antoine Chiarpentler
(edtited by Denis Stevens )
Cast in order of singing:
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Goldsbrough Orchestra (Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
George Malcolm (harpsichord) Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Desmond Dupre (viola da gamba)
CONDUCTED BY EDMOND APPIA
Repetiteur, George Coop
Acts 1 and 3
Talk by T. E. Utley
An analysis of the political doctrines held by the Englishmen who reacted in the l*te nineteenth century against Cobdenism and its implications.
Act 5
('Der zerbrochene Krug')
A comedy by Heinrich von Klelst
Quintet In E flat, Op. 16, for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and piano pLayed by the Société Taftaned des Instruments & Vent with Lucien Wurmser (piano) on gramophone records
Two talks by Michael Tippett on music and the poetic element in the theatre
1—The Renaissance, the Greek and the French Classicists
