The Rite of Spring
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
Conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ on a gramophone record
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI discusses the introduction of electronic elements into contemporary composition and introduces his recent Jeux vénitiens which employs improvisatory interludes
Three programmes by A. Alvarez
1: Kennedy and the Intellectuals
On a special visit this year to New York. Washington. Chicago, and San Francisco. A. Alvarez recorded interviews with American writers, artists, and critics. In three programmes he reports on the intellectual climate in America today. His first subject of analysis is the Kennedy era and its violent termination.
Voices heard include those of Hannah Arendt , Lionel Trilling , Richard Hofstadter , August Heckscher, Norman Podhoretz , and Arthur Schlesinger Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Second broadcast
+ A piano recital by VLADO PERLEMUTER
Fantaisie in F minor. Op. 49
7.22* Polonaise in F sharp minor
7 33* Mazurka in F sharp minor. Op. 6 No.
7.36* Mazurka in C sharp minor. Op. 50 No. 3
7.40' Sonata in B minor
on Shakespeare's Sonnets
The second of two programmes in which the Sonnets are reconsidered by one of the leading poets of our time followed by a reading from the Sonnets by Marius GORING
Reigen
A sequence of ten dialogues by Arthur Schnitzler translated by Other parts: Jo Manning Wilson and Bruce Beeby
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
Second broadcast
Martin Esslin has written:
Arthur Schnitzier (1862-1931) is gradually being recognised as a major dramatist of the era which produced Ibsen. Strindberg. and Chekhov. His knowledge of the human heart was deep, compassionate, but at the same time Ironical. ' Reigen.' the ten dialogues about carnal love which he wrote In the winter of 1890-91. shows these qualities to perfection.
Fantasy in two movements played by YFRAH NEAMAN (violin)
