A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones

Double Quartet No. 1 in D minor played by the Aeoldan String Quartet:
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Colin Sauer (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello) with Lorraine du Val (violin) Trevor Williams (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola)
Vivian Joseph (cello)

Talk by Peter Bell
"Biologists," says Mr. Bell, "often find that problems of evolution which, on the face of it, look perfectly simple, have a way of turning out to be extraordinarily complicated." He describes one such complication he has studied in South America —the evolutionary problem presented by certain tropical trees and shrubs with which ants are always found associated.
The speaker is a Lecturer in Botany at University College, London.

Mozart—Strauss Concert
John Cameron (baritone)
Phyllis Selliick (piano)
Harry Danks (viola) Peter Muscant (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1: Mozart
Symphony No. 32, in G (K.318)
7.41 app. Piano Concerto No. 26, in D
(K.537) (Coronation)
8.13 app Aria: Deh vieni alia finestra
(Don Giovanni )
Recit. and Aria: Vedro. mentr'io sospiro (Le Nozze di Figaro)
8.23 app. Symphony No. 40, in G minor (K.550)
Joan Chissell writes on page 27

Philip Hope-Wallace reviews the collection of theatrical criticisms by Sir Max Beerbohm , recently published in a new edition

Part 2: Richard Strauss
Symphonic Poem: Don Quixote
Tickets may be obtained from the Royal Albert Hall or usual agents

A study by Patric Dickinson

The Ambrosian Singers
Orpington Junior Singers
The New London Quarter:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
Continuo:
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Desmond Dupre (viola da gamba)
Julian Bream (lute)
Produced by Denis Stevens
Il Ballo dell'lngrate was composed by Monteverdi for the festivities at Mantua in June 1608. It is one of the few ballets in the French style to have been preserved in complete form, and owes its conception as well as its text to Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist and francophile.

Talk by C. H. Talbot co-editor of the complete edition of St. Bernard's works
During August and September the memory
.of St. Bernard, who died 800 years ago, will be celebrated in many parrs of Europe. Dr. Talbot discusses some aspects of his work, his method, and h:s influence. (The recorded broadcast of August 12)