Part 1
Concerto in E flat
(Dumbarton Oaks) played by An Instrumental Ensemble Conducted by Robert Craft
Second of two talks by the Rev. Peter Hammond
In his second talk Mr. Hammond suggests that the laos, the common people of Western Christendom in the Middle Ages, came to be relegated to a peripheral position in the Church, so that mysticism, spirituality and the life of devotion seemed to be ' not their concern,' or at least divorced from secular issues. He believes that, through the example and influence of Eastern Orthodoxy, what was lost can be found again, and Christian society in the West thereby revivified.
Part 2
THE SOLDIER'S TALE (Histoire du Soldat)
Libretto by C. F. Ramuz
English translation. by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black
Christopher Hassall (Narrator)
Charles Leno (The Soldier)
Ernest Milton (The Devil)
Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Joseph Castaldini (bassoon)
David Mason (trumpet)
Evan Watkin (trombone)
James Blades (percussion)
Granville Jones (violin)
Francis Baines (double-bass)
Conducted by Robert Craft
Produced by John Manduell
First of six programmes to mark Stravinsky's seventy-fifth birthday
A story by Kafka from the collection "In the Penal Settlement" translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.
Read by Kenneth Griffith with music composed by Franz Reizenstein.
Peter Forster writes on page 9