A series of four illustrated talks by Maud Karpeles
1-The Name and Nature of Folk Music
Illustrations by Patrick Shuldham-Shaw (baritone) and Elsie Avril (violin)
Next talk: August 20
Miss Karpeles is secretary of the International Folk Music Council, which is meeting this summer in Brazil. She collaborated with Cecil Sharp in founding the English Folk Dance Society, and visited America with him in 1917 to collect folk music in the Appalachian Mountains. She has also collected a large amount of folk music in Britain.
Vladimir Nabokov reads his own translation of three poems by Pushkin
by Geraint Jones
Bach
Three Chorale Preludes:
Durch Adams Fall
Christ du Lamm Gottes
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C
Last of four programmes of German organ music of the 17th and 18tih centuries.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Translated and freely adapted from Johann Nestroy 's farce by Sybil Welch and Colin Welch
Eric Parkin (piano)
William Herbert (tenor)
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 2: John Ireland
Piano Concerto in E flat
9.39 app. These Things Shall Be, for solo, chorus, and orchestra
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
A talk by Russell Meiggs
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
Mr. Mciggs began his study of this port of ancient Rome in 1925. He describes the way in which archaeological work since then has reveskd its daily life and fortunes, from the rising commercial centre of the first century B.C. to the poor Christian community which survived into the Middle Ages.
Trio in A minor, Op. 50 played by the Harry Isaacs Trio
