(' Les Loups') by Romain Rolland
Translated by John Holmstrom
Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced by R. D. Smith
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Peter Carver , Peter Claughton and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
The date is 1793. The city of Mainz. held by the French Citizens' Army, is besieged by Prussian forces: the great hall of the Hotel du Roi d'Angleterre is serving at staff headquarters to the National Convention, and the Republican officers are in council.
(Leo McKern is in ' The Queen and the Rebels ' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
at 9.10
Peter Forster writes on page 6 followed by an interlude at 4.30
('The Woman without a Shadow ')
An opera in three acts
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
(sung In German)
Voices of Unborn Children:
Erika Koth , Anny van Kruyswyk. Antonie Fahberg , Elisabeth Lindermeier , Ruth Michaelis. and Ina Gerhein
(Continued in next column)
Watchmen: Max Proebstl ,
Karl Hoppe , and Hans Hermann Nissen
Serving-maids: Erika Koth ,
Antonie Fahberg , and Ruth Michaelis
Chorus and Orchestra of the Munich State Opera
CONDUCTED BY GEORGE SEBASTIAN
Producer. Rudolf Hartmann
Act I
The terrace of the Emperor's palace; Barak's house
Stephen Williams writes on page 4
by Eva Taylor
Looking with a geographer's eye at some of the new towns like Harlow and Basildon, Professor Taylor suggests that their location was not considered with enough care. She has, however, some constructive suggestions to make.
' AcT 2
Barak's house; a pavilion in a wood; Barak's house; the Empress's bedroom; Barak's house
A talk about Wittgenstein and why he presents no method in philosophy by G. A. Paul
Fellow of University College, Oxford
A poem in four parts by John Redwood Anderson
Read by Gerik Schjelderup
at 8.20
Act 3
An underground vault; the entrance to a temple; inside the temple; an open landacape
To be repeated on January 29 followed by an interlude at 9.20
Talk by Ralph Vaughan Williams , o.M.
A shortened version of a lecture recently delivered at the Composers' Concourse, London
The Art of Fugue
Pietro Scarpini (piano)
Contrapuncti 1-4
(four simple fugues)
Contrapuncti 5-7
(three stretto fuguea)
This is the first of three recitals in which ' The Art of Fugue ' will be played by Pietro Scarpini.
Wednesday at 10.0
by Sacheverell Sitwell
A talk suggested by the exhibition of Portuguese Art from 8oo to 1800, at present on view in London at the Royal Academy.
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 5)
Suite: L'Histoire du Soldat played by David Oppenheim (clarinet) Loren Glickman (bassoon)
Robert Nagel (trumpet) Erwin Price (trombone) Alex Schneider (violin)
Julius Levine (double-bass) Alfred Howard (percussion) Conducted by the composer on gramophone records
