11-Conditions in Wills by A. D. Hargreaves
Professor of Law
In the University of Birmingham
The Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Leonard Dight (violin)
Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
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Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez , who died in 1948 at the age of fifty-one, was one of the most prominent of modern Brazilian composers; he was also the founder and director of the Conservatorio Brasileiro de Musica in Rio de Janeiro. He wrote a large amount of music of all kinds, much of it inspired by Brazilian subjects and based on Brazilian folk music. His Second String Quartet was written in 1946; it is in four movements. D.C.
Illustrated talk by Manfred F. Bukofzer
Dr. Bukofzer, Professor of Music in the University of California, talks about some fourteenth-century English motets which he has found in this country. Illustrations are sung by the Ambrosian
Singers, with an instrumental consort, conducted by Denis Stevens.
This is the first of three programmes about recent research in the field of pre-Reformation English music.
Sonnets read in French by Pierre Letevre and in the English of Charles Maclnnes by Alan Wheatley.
MISSA SABRINENSIS by Herbert Howells
(first performance)
Joan Alexander (soprano) Gladys Ripley (contralto) William Herbert (tenor)
Gordon Clinton (baritone)
Festival Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Granville Jones )
Conducted by the composer
From Worcester Cathedral
or ' The Clerk's Calendar'
Seven conversation pieces in verse by George Ewart Evans Each piece represents a day in the life of a city clerk—an unhappy clerk, in search of he doesn't quite know what.
Music composed by Mansel Thomas
Produced by Elwyn Evans
Symphonie Concertante No. 6 played by Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute)
Pierre Pierlot (oboe)
Gilbert Coursier (horn) Paul Hongne (bassoon) with the Ensemble Instrumentale de Paris
Conductor, Louis de Froment on gramophone records
Talk by Stuart Piggott
Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh
Sonata in B flat (K.358) played by Debora and Boukje Land
(piano duet)
