by Harry Levin
Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard
Since written literature existed there have always been literary exiles banished for political reasons or because their works were considered morally subversive; and there were those who were alienated from home without leaving it — Melville's Ishmaels.
Professor Levin speaks on the influence of exile on the content and style of these poets and novelists from Ovid and Dante to Ezra Pound and Nabokov.
followed by an interlude at 8.40

(Leader, Wilfred Lehmann )
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult and Meredith Davies
April Cantelo (soprano)
From the Town Hall, Birmingham

An enquiry into the sources of Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest' by J.I.M. Stewart

La Messe de Nostre Dame
Pro Musica Antiqua
Conductor, Safford Cape On a gramophone record