An imaginary chapter of autobiography: by Dorothy Baker
Characters in order of speaking:
Narrator (Julia Lang ); Cobbler (John Phillips ); Mme. Maria Calvet (Patience Collier); Marguerite Marie (Ann Tollen ) ; Berthe, the cook (Marjorie VC'esiburv ); Hippolyte (Martin Starkie ); M. Julien Calvet (Francis de Wolff ); Phillipe (Ian Hindle ); Albert (John Sharp ); Thomas, the fardencr (Bryan Powey ); Helene (
Olive lirby ); Andre Blois , the butcher (John Stockbridge ); Mme, de Frontenac (Gladys Spencer ); Charles Duval (John Phillips ). Eighteen YEARS LATER: Marguerite-Marie (Olive Gregg ); Phillipe (Denis McCarthy )
Production by Christopher Sykes
Opera in four acts
Libretto (after Merimee) by Meilhac and Halevy Music by Bizet sung in French: on records and Petits Chanteurs de Versailles
Chorus, Maitrise, and National Orchestra of Radiodiffusion-Television Française
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Bt.
Act 1: A square in Seville
by Bruce Milder
Professor of Politics
In the University of Leicester
After a stav of six months in Delhi Professor Aliller, while recognising the superficial similarities between political practice in Britain and India, discusses some of the forces leading to the evolution in India of a new political style.
Act 2: Lillas Pastia's tavern
by Joel Hurstfield
Professor of Modern History at University College, London
Professor Hurstfield discusses the contribution of this veteran American historian (who died last year at the age of seventy-eight) to our knowledge of the Elizabethan age, and contrasts his approach to historical biography with the new methods and techniques tried out by younger historians.
Act 3: A wild part of the mountains
Acr 4: Outside the Plaza de Toros, Seville
Three music talks by Deryck Cooke
1-The Cosy Chord-Continuum
All Heart, No Head: May 2
by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61)
CANTO 1
Produced by Anthony Thwaite
Canto 2: April 24
Amours de Voyage was written in 1849, when Clough was in Rome. It deals, in a series of verse-letters, with two parallel events: Claude's relationship with the Trevellyn family—with Alary, in particular —and the war between the Roman Republic and France. The poem is written for the most part in English hexameters.
The Monk Consort:
Brian Baker (cornettino)
Christopher Monk (cornet to) Alan Lumsden (alto sackbut)
Ray Carter (tenor sackbut) John Hallett (bass sackbut)