A weekly review of the arts
In this edition
ANDREW FORGE discusses the monograph on Francis Bacon by Ronald Alley and Sir John Rothenstein
GINO VALLE , Italian architect from Udine. talks to JOSEPH RYKWERT on the occasion of an exhibition of his work in London
Eric MorrRtM on The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
HELEN WATTS (contralto)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
KENNETH TUDOR (baritone)
CHARLES SPINKS (organ) (and harpsichord and organ continuo)
KEITH HARVEY (cello continuo)
BBC CHORUS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by ARNOLD GOLDSBROUGH
Handel
Part 1
Organ Concerto No. 1, in G minor
8.45' Silete venti soprano, Heather Harper
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]
by SIR ANTHONY WAGNER
Garter King of Arms
Class distinctions in England were never so clear or so impregnable as in Germany or France. In Entiland the status symbol was more important just because the frontiers of status itself were more fiuid and more doubtful.
Part 2: Dixit Dominus
Sketches
The second of three programmes presenting Harold Pinter's revue sketches
1: Request Stop
2: That's All
3: Applicant
Three Burlesques
Ten Easy Pieces played by Gyorgy Sandor (piano) on a gramophone record