(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins

by Walt Whitman
Read by Orson Welles
Presented by Peter Duval Smith
A Song of Myself was written in 1855, when Whitman was thirty-six, and published in that year as an untitled introduction to the first edition of Leaves of Grass. It was intended as a personal testament: its prophetic tone and the pantheism and idealism which it recommends remained a permanent characteristic of Whitman's verse. For this broadcast the poem has been slightly cut.
(The recorded broadcast of April 6)
7.50 American Piano Music
Blues No. 1 (freely poetic): Blues
No. 4 (with bounce) (Aaron Cop-land): played by the composer
Four Excursions, Op. 20 (
Samuel Barber ): played by Rudolf Firkusny on gramophone records
8.5 A SONG OF MYSELF '
(continued)

Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble
Dennis Brain (horn) Gareth Morris (flute) Leonard Brain (oboe)
Bernard Walton (clarinet) John Alexandra (bassoon)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)

Talk by Cynthia Jolly
The speaker discusses the Pianto delle Zuelle, en Italian folk play given in a mountain village near Rome, and compar" itsmusic wrth Italian monody and plarinsong.

(died August 22. 1903)
Talk by A. P. Ryan
The speaker considers Lord Salisbury's career in the light of the recently published biography by A. L. Kennedy.

Tre sonetti del Petrarca
No. 47; No. 104; No. 123 played by Mewton-Wood (piano)

a talk by Geoffrey Grigson on Nature and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Francis Loring (baritone)
Ernest Lush (accompanist)
The Semino Trio:
Granville Jones (violin)
Norina Semino (cello)
Gordon Watson (piano)