of the eighteenth century
London Harpsichord Ensemble:
John Francis (flute) Albert Chasey (violin) Suzanne Rozsa (violin)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Millicent Silver (harpsiehord)
Fourth of a series of programmes of 18thcentury English chamber music devised and edited by Stanley Sadie
Peter Wiles
Fellow of New College, Oxford speaks about the success of Soviet manufacturing industry
(Shortened version of a paper read at the Congress for Cultural Freedom which took place in Milan in September)
A lyric opera in three acts
Words adapted from the poem of Alexander Pushkin by Tchaikovsky Shilovsky and C.S. Shilovsky
Music by Tchaikovsky
English translation by Edward J. Dent
Cost in order of singing:
Peasants, guests, officers, etc.
Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Marcus Dods)
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, Walter Price )
CONDUCTED by ALEXANDER GIBBON
From Sadler's Wells Theatre, London (by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Trust Ltd.)
The action takes place in Russia about 1820
ACT 1
Scene 1. Mme. Larina's garden. Autumn.
Scene 2. Tatiana's bedroom. The same night.
Scene 3. Another part of the garden. The next day.
Act 2
Scene 1. Mme. Larina's drawing-room.
Winter.
Scene 2. The river bank. Early the following morning.
Act 3
Scene 1. Ballroom in a fashionable house in St. Petersburg. Some years later.
Scene 2. Prince Gremin's house. Next day.
by Raymond Firth
Professor of Anthropology
In the University of London
The first of two talks based on the Frazer Lecture delivered this year by Professor Firth before the University of Cambridge. This lecture in honour of Sir Jnmes Frazer is given annually at various university centres.
In this talk Professor Firth examines some of the ideas of a primitive Polynesian people, the Tikopia, about life after death.
A selection of his poems read In Italian and in translation
Chosen and introduced by Luigi Meneghello
Translations by Arthur Boyars and Edwin Morgan
Readers:
Anthony Jacobs , Paul Colacicchl
Sonata in B minor, Op. 40 No. 2 played by Artur Balsam (piano) on gramophone records
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