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(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Geoffrey Waddington
Geoffrey Waddington is Music Director of the CBC. Born in London in 1904, he studied at the Toronto Conservatoire and was for some time conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
The second work in this programme is one of several written for broadcasting by John Jacob Weinzweig , Professor of Composition at the Toronto Conservatoire and one of Canada's leading composers.

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Stead
Conducted By:
Geoffrey Waddington
Broadcasting By:
John Jacob Weinzweig

Richard Adeney (flute)
Marie Korchinska (harp)
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
William Glock (piano)
Olive Zorian (violin)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Kalmar Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Friedman )
Conductor, Colin Davis
Part 1

Contributors

Flute:
Richard Adeney
Harp:
Marie Korchinska
Harpsichord:
George Malcolm
Piano:
William Glock
Violin:
Olive Zorian
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Unknown:
Kalmar Chamber
Leader:
Leonard Friedman
Conductor:
Colin Davis

by Jean Anouilh
Adapted for radio by Merlin Thomas and Frank Hauser from the translation by Lewis Gelantiere
Produced by Frank Hauser
All sorts of very odd things have been said about Jean Anouilh's play Antigone, first played in Paris in 1944, but it it really a perfectly simple, straightforward tragedy..... He takes the Greek story of Antigone and tells it as a Greek story — the scene is still Thebes — but with deliberate anachronisms, so that the characters speak much as they would today. In much the same way Racine made his characters from antiquity use the French of the seventeenth century. M.T.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Anouilh
Unknown:
Merlin Thomas
Unknown:
Frank Hauser
Translation By:
Lewis Gelantiere
Produced By:
Frank Hauser
Chorus:
Alec Guinness
Creon, King of Thebes:
Peter Usrtinov
His nieces:Antigone:
Mary Morris
His nieces:Ismene:
Catherine Campbell
Haemon, his son:
Denholm Elliott
Nurse:
Dorothy Summers
First guard:
Malcolm Hayes
Second guard:
Dafydd Havard
Third guard:
Eric Francis
Messenger:
David Enders

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