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Quintet in B minor for clarinet and strings played by members of the Vienna Octet:
Alfred Boskovsky (clarinet)
Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Philip Matheis (violin)
Gunther Breitenbach (viola)
Nikolaus Hùbner (cello) on gramophone records

Contributors

Clarinet:
Alfred Boskovsky
Violin:
Willi Boskovsky
Violin:
Philip Matheis
Viola:
Gunther Breitenbach
Viola:
Nikolaus Hùbner

A series of six talks
3-Limits of Philanthropy by W. L. Burn
Professor of History in the University of Durham
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Contributors

Unknown:
W. L. Burn

An opera in three acts
Words and music by Michael Tippett
Cost in order of singing:
Non-singing part:
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Chorus of Mark's and Jenifer's friends
Dancers attendant on the Ancients
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson ]
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor )
Conducted BY JOHN PRITCHARD
Producer. Christopher West
From the Royal Opera House.
Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
The action takes place during Midsummer Day
Act 1: Morning

Contributors

Music By:
Michael Tippett
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conducted By:
John Pritchard
Producer:
Christopher West
MARK, a young man of unknown parentage:
Richard Lewis
THE ANCIENTS, priest and priestess of the temple Langdon:
Michael Lewis
THE ANCIENTS, priest and priestess of the temple Langdon and:
Edith Coates
JENIFER, Mark's betrothed, a young girl:
Joan Sutherland
KING FISHER Jenifer's father, a business man:
Otakar Kraus
BELLA, King Fisher's secretary:
Adele Leigh
JACK, Bella's boy-friend, a mechanic:
John Lanigan
A HALF-TIPSY MAN:
Gordon Farrall
A DANCING MAN:
Andrew Daniels
Sosostris, a clairvoyante:
Oralia Dominguez
Strephon, a dancer:
Pirmin Trecu

Third Programme

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