Four studies in the history of historiography by Herbert Butterfield
Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge
3-Getting Behind the Historian
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 8)
Last lecture: tomorrow at 8.20
A programme about the eighteenth-century clarinet, based in part on the recently published book The Clarinet by the late F. Geoffrey Rendall
Bernard Walton
(eighteenth-century clarinet) with a section of the Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Erich Gruenberg )
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Programme introduced by Alan Frank The music includes Handel's Overture for two clarinets and horn; the first performance in this country of J. M. Molter 's Clarinet Concerto in G (c. 1741); and the slow movement of Vivaldi's Concerto in C (for oboes, clarinets, and strings) and of J. Stamitz 's Clarinet Concerto in B flat.
The first of two programmes of poems by Jacques Prevert read by the author who accompanies himself on the guitar
The Vegh String Quartet:
Sandor Vegh (violin) Sandor Zoldy (violin) Georges Janzer (viola)
Paul Szabo (cello)
A talk by Harold Nicolson about the novel by Max Beerbohm
(A new recording of the talk originally broadcast in 1947) See Thursday at 8.0
An Occasion Recalled
The occasion is the first performance of Hilda Tablet 's opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The music realised by Donald Swann
Orchestrations realised by Max Saunders
The words realised by Henry Reed and Characters in the Opera:
(Continued in next column) with a section of the London Symphony Orchestra Conduct of the orchestra by Patrick Savill
The production suddenly realised by Douglas Cleverdon
The Concert Arts Orchestra
Conducted by Vladimir Golschmann
Rounds for string orchestra (David
Diamond)
Two Choric Dances (Paul Creston ) Quiet City (Aaron Copland ) on gramophone records
India in South-East Asia by Taya Zinkin
Manchester Guardian correspondent in India
