An opera in three acts
Libretto by Christopher Hassall
Music by William Walton
Cast in order of singing:
Priests and Priestesses of Pallas
Trojans, Greeks
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master,
Douglas Robinson
COVENT GARDEN ORCHESTRA Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Production rehearsed by Christopher West
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The action takes place about the 12th century B.C.
Act 1
The citadel of Troy. before the temple of Pallas
by W. A . WARD of St. John's College. Cambridge
Mr. Ward thinks that muck Dickens criticism goes astray by concentrating on plot and psychology. The great Dickens characters are an effluence of his unique linguistic virtuosity.
Act 2
Scene 1: In the house of Pandaruas the evening of the next day
Scene 2: The same: next morning
by FILLO ATXINSON, A.R.I.B.A.
Nearly thirty years ago Le Corbusier set down (in When the Cathedrals Were White) his deep concern for the United States and his belief that, in spite of all the * inhuman jazz,' it would be the first to achieve an architecture to honour modem life. Yet it is only this year that he completed a commission there.
Fello Atkinson reflects on this building-the Carpenter Center at Harvard-and on the Corbusier exhibition now at the Museum of Modern Art. Do they mark an end to the long estrangement between a great architect and what he called * the country of timid people ' ?
The Greek encampment, before the pavilion of Calkas, ten weeks later: evening.
George Mackay Brown introduces a selection of his own poems
Reader, John LAURIE Second broadcast
