by Professor M.M. Lewis, Director of the Institute of Education, University of Nottingham
(The recorded broadcast of April 8)
String Quartet No. 3
Grave e sostenuto - Allegro moderato; Andante; Allegro molto e con brio;
Lento: Allegro comodo
played by the New Edinburgh Quartet: Robert Cooper (violin), Anne Crowden (violin),
Christopher Martin (viola), Joan Dickson (cello)
Third of four programmes of chamber music and songs by Michael Tippett
A topical programme on the arts, literature, and entertainment
Three speakers comment on whatever seems of most immediate interest in the world of the various arts: exhibitions, new productions in the theatre, new films and books.
John Wain talks about The Entertainer, a new play by John Osborne at the Royal Court Theatre, London; and A. Alvarez about a production of Tennessee Williams's Camino Real, at the Phoenix Theatre, London.
A chronicle of the development of English drama
Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton
'Fulgens and Lucrece' by Henry Medwall (c. 1497)
Extract from 'Mundus et Infans' (before 1522)
Extract from 'Hickscorner' (before 1512)
The first part of 'Magnyfycence' by John Skelton (c. 1516)
Courtiers:
Music composed by John Hotchkis with the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by the composer
Maria Stader (soprano)
Marianna Radev (contralto)
Ernst Haefliger (tenor)
Kim Borg (bass)
Choirs of RIAS and St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin
RIAS Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Ferenc Fricsay
(on gramophone records)
by Alvar Aalto
The distinguished Finnish architect has recently paid a brief visit to London to receive this year's Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, awarded by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
During his visit he gave the first of a series of Annual Discourses, newly established by the R.I.B.A., of which this is a broadcast version.
(To be repeated on April 26)
played by Geraint Jones
From Hillington Church, Norfolk
A Meditation by the Rev. George F. MacLeod, M.C., D.D., Leader of the Iona Community
