Leonard Cassini (piano)
Harvey Phillips String Orchestra
(Leader. Hugh Bean)
Conductor, Harvey Phillips
Talk by Thomas Goff
Illustrations played by George Malcolm
During the next three months a series of recitals will be broadcast in the Third Programme under the above title, covering keyboard music from the Elizabethans to Chopin. AH this music will be played on instruments contemporary with the composers or on modern copies of such instruments. In this introductory programme Thomas Goff talks about virginals, harpsichords, and clavichords.
A musical entertainment for solo Dong, chorus, and orchestra
Verses by Edward Lear
Music by Max Saunders with an orchestra and chorus conducted by the composer
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
(: programme previ>usly broadcast on December 26)
by J. Robert Oppenheimer
1—Newton: the Path of Light
In the first of his six lectures Dr. Oppenheimer gives an account, contrasted sharply with the present situation, of the impact of Newton's discoveries and of Newtonian physics on the philosophical and political thought of rh< succeeding centuries.
' A Tribute of Praise
A Song of Thanksgiving; A Song of Love; A Prayer; A Blessing; A Psalm of Honour
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)
BBC Midland Chorus Conductor, John Lowe
by Dona Salmon
Bitten by a giant centipede, pursued by a bear, intrigued by ' a thing like a ohitd's lollipop which made a noise like a jumping bean under the tiles ': Dona Salmon gives a further talk about beasts, insects, and reptiles of a New Mexican summer.
A medieval narrative poem in four parts, translated into modern
English by J. R. R. Tolkien
Part 4
John Betjeman talks about the historical importance of this church; and Cecil Clutton , about its seventeenth-century organ
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(Continued in next column)
Seventeenth-Century Music performed by Alexander Young (tenor)
Susi Jeans (organ)
reads ' The Riddle,' a story he wrote many years ago
He prefaces the reading with his poem ' England ' and concludes with ' The Little Salamander '
Marina de Gabaraio
(mezzo-soprano)
Frederick Stone (piano)
