Joyce Hedges (piano)
Talk by William Pickles
Yfrah Neaman (violin)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
Walter Piston , Professor of Music at Harvard University and one of America leading composers, celebrates his sixtieth birthday today. His Violin Concerto was written in 1939 and dedicated to Ruth Possek, who gave the first performance the following year with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It is in three movements.
by J. Robert Oppenheimer
4-Atom and Void in the Third Millennium
In this lecture Dr. Oppenheimer continues his account of the scientific discoveries that have forced on us a new concept of causality and indeed of the objective existence of atomic objects.
(The recorded broadcast of December 6 in the Home Service)
' Uncommon Sense ': January 27
Organ Concertos:
No. 7, in B flat. Op. 7 No. 1
No. 12, in B flat, Op. 7 No. 6 played by Walter Kraft (organ)
Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Stuttgart
Conductor. Rolf Reinhardt
Helma Eisner (harpsichord) on gramophone records
by Kay Oicellis
Music composed by Elisabeth Lmtyens
Hugues Cuenod (tenor)
Ernest Lush (piano)
The Element Quartet:
Ernest Element (violin)
Sylvia Cleaver (violin)
Dorothy Heriming (viola)
Norman Jones (cello)
