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of Sophocles
A new translation by C. A. Trypants Antigone (Joan Plowright); Ismene (7udy Bailey); Creon (Brewster Mason); Guard (Derek Smith); Haemon (Gabriel Woolf); Teiresias (Leon Quarlermaine); Messenger (Ronald Wallace); Eurydice (7oan Muheson); Second Messenger (Frederick
Treves); Chorus (leader, Carleton Hobbs ; Peter Claughton , Hugh Manning , Robert Sansom , Charles Simon , David Steuart )
Music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis
Chorus directed by Colette King
Production by Val Gielgud

Contributors

Translation By:
C. A. Trypants
Leader:
Carleton Hobbs
Leader:
Peter Claughton
Leader:
Hugh Manning
Leader:
Robert Sansom
Leader:
Charles Simon
Leader:
David Steuart
Conducted By:
John Hotchkis
Directed By:
Colette King
Production By:
Val Gielgud

IN THE THIRD PROGRAMME: RECORDING OF A PERFORMANCE AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, NEW YORK
A MUSIC DRAMA IN THREE ACTS AND FIFTEEN SCENES Act 1: 7.40-8.20
The Captain's room: early morning - An open field, the town in the distance: late afternoon - Marie's room: evening - The Doctor's consulting-room: a sunny afternoon - The street outside Marie's front door: twilight Act 2: 8.40-9.20
Marie's room: mid-morning— In the street: daytime - The street outside Marie's room: a gloomy day - A tavern garden: late evening - Guard room in the barracks: night Act 3: 9.30-10.0 Marie's room: night, candle-light - A woodland path by a pond-A low tavern dimly lighted—A woodland path by a pond: moonlight—Outside Marie's front door made available by courtesy of Voice of America

BASED ON THE PLAY BY GEORG BUCHNER

English translation by Vida Harford and Eric Blackall

Music by Alban Berg

THE CAPTAIN.................................Paul Franke WOZZECK, the Captain's batman....Hermann Uhde MARIE, his wife Eleanor Steber ANDRES, a soldier, Wozzeck's friend Charles Anthony MARGRET, a neighbour............Margaret Roggero THE DOCTOR.................................Karl Doench THE DRUM MAJOR...........................Kurt Baum FIRST APPRENTICE...................Ezio Flagello SECOND APPRENTICE.......................Calvin Marsh AN IDIOT................................Alessio De Paolis A soldier Earl Ringland A TOWNSMAN...............,..........Charles Kuestner MARIE'S CHILD..............................Alice Plotkin

Chorus and Orchestra of the METROPOLITAN OPERA, NEW York

Conducted by Karl Bohm

Producer, Herbert Graf

There is no Economic Miracle by Dr. Hugo Buschmann
Dr. Buschmann. director of an industrial concern in Berlin and West Germany, believes that, far from a miracle. the economic situation in Germany is the result of a competitive economy granting all liberty to businessmen, and of cooperation by the unions during the difficult post-war years.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Hugo Buschmann

by F. S. Northedge
P. S. Northedge , Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics, discusses the career of Lord Curaon, who he believes was in some ways ' the ideal civil servant.' He concentrates in particular on Curzon's relationship with Lloyd George.

Contributors

Unknown:
F. S. Northedge
Unknown:
P. S. Northedge
Unknown:
Lloyd George.

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