Thirty-sixth festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music Dorothy Do row (soprano) Johanna Peters (contralto) Hugues Cuenod (tenor) Roger Stalman (bass)
Sebastian Shaw (speaker)
BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Hans Rosbaud PART 1
See page 42
1920-1944
A selection of poems introduced and read by Ted Hughes
Mr. Hughes believes that by the time
Keith Douglas was killed in Normandy he had produced ' a more inexhaustibly interesting body of poetry than anyone of his generation has produced since, in England or America.'
Part 2
From the Royal Festival Hall
The Medieval Cornish Play translated into English verse and adapted for broadcasting by TERENCE TILLER
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
Sections of the New Symphony Orchestra and of the Covent Garden Opera Chorus conducted by Douglas Robinson with Caroline Foster (mezzo-soprano)
Production by TERENCE TILLER
A new version of the programme first broadcast in 1949.
Kreisleriana played by Alfred Cortot on a gramophone record