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Opera in one act
Libretto by Franc-Nohaln
Music by Ravel
Bung in French: on a record
Cast in order of singing:
Orchestra of the Suisse Romande
CONDUCTED by ERNEST Ansermet
The action takes place in eighteenth-century Toledo in Torquemada's shop

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Ramiro, a muleteer (baritone):
Heinz Rehfuss
Torquemada, a clockmaker (tenor):
Michel Hamel
Concbpcion, his wife (soprano):
Suzanne Danco
Gonzalve, a bachelor (tenor):
Paul Derenne
Don INIGO Gomez, a banker (bass):
Andre Vessieres

by Cranford Pratt
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
*In Uganda, ... it is not nationalism which has stimulated self-government. On the contrary, a major constitutional advance is being introduced in order to help stimulate nationalism.' ...... Sir Andrew Cohen was, in effect, Uganda's foremost nationalist.'
Professor Pratt, who has been working in Uganda recently on a study of British over-rule in Buganda, examines the elements in Uganda's political life which explain such apparent paradoxes as these.

A series of monthly discussions each comparing different interpretations on gramophone records of a single work.
7—Brahms's Violin Concerto
(first movement) played by Heifetz, Kreisler Menuhin. Szeryng
Speakers:
Mosco Carner
Colin Davis
Neville Marriner
Chairman, J. A. Westrup Heather Professor of Music in the University of Oxford

Contributors

Unknown:
Kreisler Menuhin.
Unknown:
Mosco Carner
Unknown:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
J. A. Westrup

Second of two talks by Sir Russell Brain, Bt.
Sir Russell suggests that works of art are images, asks what they are images of, and how they fulfil this function. This brings him to the problem of communication and in particular to the difficulties people have when they look at pictures or sculpture, especially those produced in the last few decades.

Third Programme

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