An operetta in three acts by JOHANN STRAUSS
Libretto adapted from M. Jokai by Ignaz Schnitzer
BEEGENZFESTIVAL CHORUS
Vienna SYMPHONY Orchestra
Conducted by WALTER GOLDSCHMIDT Producer, Adolf Rott
Time: the middle of the 18th century
ACT 1: A ruined village in the province of Temesvar, Hungary

A short story by Dazat Osamu 1909-48
Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris
Read by Robert Rietty
: second broadcast

ACT 2: A gypsy village in Temesvar Act 3: In Vienna
See page 12

Self Portrait, Part 1
Born in the Bronx in 1923, the New York painter Larry Rivers made, as well as painted, history when seven years ago, at the height of Abstract Expressionism, he produced 'Washington Crossing the Delaware.'

Part 2 of this Self Portrait, which Rivers originally sketched out before an audience of art students in London recently, will be broadcast on December 31.

Alicia Schachter-Rich (piano)
Sixth of twelve programmes to include most of Bartok's piano works

Michael Tippett introduces a selection of poems he has enjoyed Readers:
Denys Hawthorne , Alan Wheatley

Concerto Grosso in D, Op. 6 No. 7
(Corelli) I Musici
Organ Concerto No. 1, in G minor
(Handel)
Karl Richter at the organ of St. Mark's Church, Munich, directing a Chamber Orchestra
Suite No. In C (Bach)
Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra directed by Yehudi Menuhin on gramophone records

Translated into English verse from the medieval Cornish and adapted for broadcasting with additional passages in verse by TERENCE TILLER
The music composed by Elizabeth Poston
The Cavendish Orchestra and a section of the Covent Garden Singers
Conducted by Douglas Robinson with Mary Dunkley (soprano) Edgar Fleet (tenor)
Production by TERENCE TILLER
A new version of the programme first broadcast in 1949