Three programmes by A. Alvarez
2: The Intellectuals and Society Continuing his report on the literary and artistic climate in America today, Mr. Alvarez turns from the Kennedy era, the subject of the first of his three programmes, to the U.S.A. as ' the only country in the world which is squarely, uncompromisingly in the twentieth century.'
Voices heard include those of Robert Lowell. Elizabeth Hard-wick, Norman Mailer , Saul Bellow , Zero Mostel. and R. P. Blackmur
Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
To be repeated on June 14
June 3: The Problems of the Artist
Yehudi Menuhin with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by The Composer playing Elgar's violin Concerto in B minor
Recorded in 1932
(Toscanini conducting the NBC Orchestra in 'La Mer' (Debussy): June 26)
A story by Marcel Jouhandeau translated by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL read by CARLETON HOBBS
THE MELOS Ensemble
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
Second broadcast
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