Edward Walker (flute) Lionel Bentley (violin)' Eileen Grainger (viola)
Osian Ellis (harp)

by Clifford Dyment
A programme, introduced by the author, in which a poet looks at his younger selves.
Othfr parts played by Brenda Dunrich , John Cazabon Michael Collins , Frank Duncan Dafydd Havard. Rowland Hill and Reginald Thorne
Produced by Terence Tiller

Opera in three acts
Words by Friedrich Kind
Music by Weber
Hunters, peasants, Invisible spirits
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted BY WILHELM FURTWANGLER
Producer, Giinther Rennert
(Continued in next column)
Aat 1
An open space in the Bohemian forest, in front of a tavern, about the year 1650
In 1817, when he was thirty, Weber said that he meant soon to set to work at a new opera which the well-known poet Friedrich Kind has written for me, the Jägersbraut, a very romantic, mysterious, beautiful work.' The title was changed later to Der Freischiitz, and the work, completed after many interruptions, was produced in Berlin on June 18, 1821, when it was a triumphant success.
It is interesting to recall that Weber, who was a cousin of Mozart's wife
Constanze, spent two years at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, when he was a boy; and while there he received instruction from Michael Haydn, who was Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.
Harold Rutland

Talk by Harold St. George Gray ,
O.B.E., F.S.A.
The speaker recalls his first excavations of the prehistoric lake villages of Glastonbury and Meare at the beginning of this century, and speaks of the results of the work up to the present.

Act 2
Scene 1: A room in the ranger's lodge Scene 2: The Wotf'i Glen

Talk by Rear-Admiral Angus Nicholl
The first volume of the official history of The War at Sea by Captain S. W. Roskill , R.N., is prefaced by a quotation from a fifteenth-century poem:
'Kepe then the sea that is the wall of England:
And than is England kept by Goddes hande.'
Admiral Nicholl comments on this account of the conduct of the war at sea until the end of 1941 in the light of the traditional principles of our maritime strategy.

Act 3
Scene 1: Agafihe's room in the lodge
Scene 2: The hunters' meet in the forest
'Ariadne auf Naxos ': August 7

Three poems from a recently published collection by Robert Gittings
The Explorers
The Grave of W. H. Hudson Famous Meeting-1805
Readers:
David Duncan. Duncan McIntyre and William Devlin