Horn- Trio in E flat major played by AUBREY BRAIN (horn) ADOLF BUSCH (violin)
RUDOLF SERKIN (piano) on a gramophone record
A series of four programmes
1: Tradition and Creation-
The Breach with the Past
FRANK KERMODE
Professor of English Language and Literature,
University of Manchester talks about the subject and presents conversations with HAROLD ROSENBERG
American art critic and author of The Tradition of the New
ERNST GOMBRICH
Director of the Warburg Institute and author of Art and Illusion
JACQUES BARZUN
Professor of History in the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University. New York. and author of Classic, Romantic, and Modern
Second broadcast
The Use of the Past: March 7
A play for radio by Ray Jenkins
' ... I don'become involved. Involvement means pain ... Lately, though, I was involved and I came away with these beads of sweat between my fingers, having got near to ordinary pain. It has changed me. 1 don'know how. and I'm afraid.... '
Frankie, as a man.ANTHONY HALL
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
Third broadcast
JOHANNA PETERS (contralto)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Pierre Boulez
Part 1
See page 6
Given before an Invited audience tn BBC Studio 1, Malda Vale, London. Applications for tickets. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. should be sent to [address removed]
Peter Calvocoressi gives the second of his four contributions to this series of fortnightly commentaries on a theme suggested by events of the previous two weeks.
Part 2
ROBERT STILL examines the composer's psychological crisis and its relation to the Tenth Symphony followed by an interlude at 10.55