Adrienne Cole (soprano)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute) Jack Brvmer (clarinet) Jean Pougnet (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola) Marie Korchinska (harp)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
A talk by Mary McCarthy on the position of American weekly journals and magazines
A new version with English words by Edward Dent prepared and directed by John Lowe
BBC Midland Singers with narration written and spoken by Alvar Lidell
From the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
A studio performance: Friday at 7.5 L'Amfiparnaso is a set of fourteen madrigals, grave and gay, depicting various episodes, sentimental or ribald, in the lives of some of the stock pantomime characters of the Commedia dell'arte 'The spectacle of which I apeak,' wrote Vecchi in the prologue to the work, ' is seen througth the mind, into which i<t enters through the ears, not through the eyes. When it first appeared in 1594 the characters were differentiated by means of dialects. This performance substitutes for dialect the use of three differentiated groups of five singers, each with soprano, contralto, two tenors, and bass. J.L.
by Henrik Ibsen
Part 1—' Caesar's Apostasy
9.55 app. Respighi
Movements from
The Fountains of Rome played by the Orchestra Staibile dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Conducted by Victor de Sabata on gramophone records
Part 2— 'The Emperor Julian'
Quartet No. 4, in F, Op. 44 played by the Sebastian String Quartet:
John Glickman (violin) Sybil Copeland (violin) Harold Harriott (viola)
Ursula Hess (cello)
Talk by R. H. Hilton
Lecturer in Hisitony tn the University of Birmimgham
The speaker traces the legend of Robin Hood from its origin in the anonymous ballads of the Middle Ages and relates these ballads and their hero to the life of the medieval English peasant.
