Talk by Stanislaus Joyce
Eltore Schmitz was a Trieste business-man who went to the youthful
James Joyce for English lessons. Schmitz had also published novels under the name of Italo Svevo, but no one took them seriously. Stanislaus Joyce describes the part played by his brother in winning general recognition for the author of The Confessions of Zeno.
Scherzo in C sharp minor The Seamstress
Intermezzo in B minor Children's Jest In the Village
The Tuileries—children quarrelling at play; Bydlo-the Polish ox-wagon;
The Hut of Baba-Yaga; The Great
Gate of Kiev (Pictures from an Exhibition) played by Franz Reizenstein (piano)
' The Significance of the Finds '
Second of two talks by the Rev. H. H. Rowley
Professor of Semitic Languages and Literature. University of Manchester
An opera in one act
Words by Bela Balazs
English translation by Christopher Hassall Music by Bela Bartok
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
CONDUCTED BY STANFORD ROBINSON
Producer, David Harris
Repetiteur, John Mathesdn
Another performance: tomorrow, 8.35 Bluebeard's Castle, written in 1911, was produced in Budapest in 1918. The minstrel's spoken prologue evokes the legendary atmosphere; then Bluebeard is revealed in his castle with his latest wife, Judith. She asks for his keys and enters the seven rooms one by one, finding in turn instruments of torture, an armoury, treasure, a garden, a wide landscape, an expanse of water, and finally Bluebeard's previous three wives. With them, she goes through the last door into the darkness. D.C.
Sir George Sansom talks about the first volume of Joseph Needham's book Science and Civilisation in China.
by Jules Supervielle
String Quintet in E flat, Op. 26 played by the Element Quartet with Herbert Downes (viola)
(The recorded broadcast of July 30)
