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A weekly review of the arts
In the interests of topicality it is not always possible to include details of Comment Items in RADIO TIMES. This week's items will be announced at the microphone.
Part 2
These weekly concerts are given before an invited audience at the BBC's studios in Delaware Road, Maida Vale, London. Tickets may be obtained by applying to T[address removed], enclosing stamped addressed envelope.
Charles Rosen (piano) with the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble in a programme of music by Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, and Janacek
The second of a series of six short talks in which
Sir Adrian Boult offers his views on problems of conducting
Conducting Concertos: March 4
by Raymond Queneau
English version by Barbara Wright with music by Pierre Philippe conducted by Charles Mackerras
Production by Douglas Cleverdon the quartet:
Denis Quilley , Andrew Downie
Alan Dudley , David Rees
THE STYLISTS:
Max Adrian , Norman Shelley Frank Duncan , George Hagan and Michael Turner
The Episode: A young man on the platform of a bus gets his feet trodden on by an older man whenever passengers get on or off. Later, the young man is seen on the corner of the street in conversation with a friend who is advising him to have the top button of his overcoat raised.
The Exercises: In the original version Raymond Queneau explored the possibilities of language by relating this episode in ninety-nine different ways-as a dream, a cross-examination, an ode, in botanical terms, in various grammatical forms..... The English Version: The programme consists of thirty of these Exercises, freely adapted to the English tongue.
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