of British Contemporary Music
SYMPHONY CONCERT
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Hugh Maguire )
Conducted by Sir Arthur Bliss From the Town Hall, Cheltenham
Part 1
Contempt of Court by C. J. Hamson
Professor of Comparative Law In the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College
Part 2
Two talks by Peter Stadlen
1-The Art of Repetition
Mozart and Beethoven often changed their minds as to how often and in what way a phrase or section of music should be repeated. Mr. Stadlen, who has made an intensive study of their autograph scores, talks about the significance of their alterations.
J.M. Cook, Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology in the University of Bristol, speaks about the Greek revival in the light of archaeological evidence and considers the directions it followed in the eighth to the seventh century B.C.
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 23)
(Greek literature at the end of the Dark Ages, by Denys Page: July 20)
Conductor, Imre Csenki
« on a gramophone record
Tur6t eszik a cigany ; Matrai kepek
(Pictures from the Matra) (arr. Koddly)
Dal (Song) (arr. Bartdk)
Ne menj el (Don't go!); Bolyongas
(Wandering); Resteknek n6taja (Song of the lazy ones); Cip6sutes (Breadbaking) (Bartdk)