An enquiry into the needs of opera and orchestral music for support from taxes and rates, and the means of organising public control over them conducted by Dennis Arundell and including the recorded comments of JOHN DENISON
Music Director, Arts Council
WILFRED STIFF
Secretary of the . Orchestral Employers' Association
HAROLD FIELDING
NORMAN K. MILLAR
Administrator.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
JOHN PRITCHARD
Conductor and Artistic Director.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
COUNCILLOR C. H. LUCAS
Chairman of the joint
Lancashire and Cheshire Committee for the support of the Halle and Liverpool Orchestras
DAME IRENE WARD
D.B.E., J.P., M.P.
Member of the Carl Rosa Trust
THE COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY
DAVID WEBSTER; C.B.E. General Administrator,
Royal Opera House Covent Garden
NORMAN TUCKER; C.B.E.
Director, Sadler's Wells Theatre

Elizabeth Simon (soprano)
Patrick Piggott (piano)
The Wang String Quartet:
Alfredo Wang (violin)
Stanley Popperwell (violin)
Gordon Mutter (viola)
George Isaac (cello)
Quintet in A flat, for piano and strings
Piano Sonata In E flat
Song: Malinconia
Divertissement in A, for piano and strings
Aria: Guardami un poco da capo a piedi (La Scuola dei Maritati)
Fantasia in A on a theme of Martini,
Op. 3, for piano
Rondo in A flat, for piano and strings

Readings from recent volumes of verse
Introduced by Jonathan Price
In this programme Mr. Price talks about The Next Word by Thomas Blackburn , A Sense of the World by Elizabeth Jennings , The Cocks of Hades by C. A. Trypanis , Out of the World and Back by Andrew Young , and an anthology of poems from behind the Iron Curtain, Back to Life, edited by Robert Conquest .
Readers:
Beth Boyd , Alan Wheatley and Morris Perry

Sonata played by Florence Hooton (cello)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)