of the eighteenth century
London Baroque Ensemble
Director, Karl Haas
The Divertimento by Haydn, which is being played for the first time in This country, is a Feldparthie written for Prince Esrtenházy's harmonie band. It dates from 1761-4 and bas been copied out by Karl Haas from manuscripts in Germany.
Recent theories about the transmission of Greek and Gothic canons of proportion
Talk by Matila Ghyka
Edinburgh International Festival
The Glyndebourne Opera production of 'The Rake's Progress'
A fable by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Music by Igor Stravinsky
From the King's Theatre, Edinburgh
An opera in three acts and an epilogue
The action takes place in eighteenth-century England
Act 1
Scene 1: The garden of Trulove's house in the country. Spring afternoon
Scene 2: Mother Goose's brothel, London.
Summer
Scene 3: The garden of Trulove's house.
Autumn night
7.50 app. Interval
8.0 app. Act 2
Scene 1: The morning-room of Rakewell's house in London. Autumn morning
Scene 2: The street before Rakewell's house. Autumn dusk
Scene 3: The morning-room of Rakewell's house. Winter morning
Scene 4: The same. Spring afternoon.
9.10 app. Interval
9.20 app. Act 3
Scene 1: A churchyard. The same night
Scene 2: Bedlam
Epilogue
(Another performance: September 2)
by Louis MacNeice
The Island
Day of Renewal
Day of Returning
Readers: Robert Harris
Oliver Burt , Robert Marsden and Martin Starkie
These three -poeims are a second selection from a series written in Greece during 1950.
Sonata No. 1, in E minor, Op 73 for piano and violin played by Suzanne Rozsa (violin)
Paul Hamburger (piano)
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