A weekly review of the arts
BRETT WHITELEY , the Australian painter, in conversation with EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH about new developments in his work as exhibited in ' The New Generation 1964 ' at the Whitechapel Gallery, and his one man show at the Marlborough New London Gallery, Old Bond Street.
Roy WALKER on the National
Theatre production of Othello with Laurence Olivier , at the Old Vic
Produced by PHILIP FRENCH
PATRICIA CLARK (soprano) MARY THOMAS (soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) MAURICE BEVAN (baritone)
OLIVE ZORIAN (violin) FRANCES MASON (violin)
LONDON TROMBONE Quartet Tony Moore, John Edney, Alan Lumsden, John Pritchard
Joy HallL (viola da gamba and cello continuo)
Roy Jesson (organ and harpsichord continuo)
Ralph Holmes (violin)
Eric Allen (percussion)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET Sydney Humphreys, Raymond Keenlyside, Watson Forbes, Derek Simpson
Part 1
Alan Bush
Dialectic, Op. 15, for string quartet
8.45* Schutz
O quam tu pulchra es, for tenor, baritone, two violins and continuo
Fili mi, Absalon, for baritone, four trombones, and continuo
(Symphoniae sacrae. 1629)
9.4* Alan Bush
Prelude, Air, and Dance, Op 61, for violin, string quartet. and percussion
Commissioned by the BBC first performance
Conducted by the composer
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed]
Some scientific concepts in perspective
6: Causality* by O. R. FRISCH , F.R.S.
Jacksonian Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge
It is one of the tenets of quantum physics that atomic events can never be accurately predicted; for example, we can compute the probability, but no more. that a given radium atom will break up during a given day. But are such events really not determined? And what are the implications?
Part 2
Monteverdi Scherzi Musicali , 1607
Non cosi tosto io miro Dolci miei sospiri
0 Rosetta, che rosetta Amorosa pupilletta
Entrata e balletto: De la bellezza le dovute lodi
9.56* Stravinsky
In memoriam Dylan Thomas , for tenor, string quartet, and four trombones
Conducted by Roy Jesson
Sketches
The first of three programmes presenting Harold Pinter 's revue sketches
1: Last to Go
2: The Black and White
3: That's Your Trouble
Produced by MICHAEL BAKEWELL followed by an interlude at 10 55
