by DÉSIRÉE HIRST
Lecturer in the Department of English, Swansea
Désirée Hirst has made an intensive study of Blake's sources and of the traditions, mystical and intellectual, which shaped his thought and its poetic expression. She believes that Blake's religious convictions can only be understood as a series of apparent contradictions, the key to which is his dictum that ' without Contraries is no progression.'
by Daniel Waley
A personal portrait of Frederick II
Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily 11194-1250) as he is reflected in the letters, anecdotes, and reminiscences of the men of his time, among them the Italian friar Salimbene, the St. Alban's chronicler Matthew Paris, the Scottish astrologer Michael Scott , and the Palestinian historian Yafi'i
Music by Antony Hopkins
Produced by NESTA PAIN
To be repeated on January 7
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LAMAR CROWSON (piano)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer. Peter Carter
Keith Lovell , Michael Evans PORTIA WIND ENSEMBLE
Mary Ryan
(alto-flute and piccolo) Mary Murdoch (oboe) Thea King (clarinet) Daphne Down
(clarinet and bass-clarinet) Valerie Smith (horn)
Deirdre Dundas-Grant
(bassoon and double-bassoon) with ISABEL SMITH (guitar)
MARIA KORCHINSKA (harp)
ALFRED FLASZYNSKI (trombone) JAMES BLADES (percussion) OLIVE ZORIAN (violin) HARRY DANKS (viola)
RAYMOND CLARKE (cello) , JOHN STEER (double-bass)
Conducted by BENJAMIN FRANKEL and JOHN CAREWE
Part 1
Piano Sonata in C major
(Haydn Society No. 50)
Haydn
Continued in next column
8.48* Catalogue of Incidents in Romeo and Juliet Benjamin Frankel for oboe, two clarinets. horn. bassoon. harp, percussion, violin. viola, cello, and double-bass
Conducted by the composer
BBC commission: 1st performance
9.10* Piano Trio No. 19, in D minor Haydn
3: Alien Communication by DERWENT MERCER
Lecturer in Physics,
University of Southampton
You may be able to travel to other worlds, and meet the local inhabitants, but how will you communicate with them? Dr. Mercer discusses some solutions to this problem which have been suggested by authors of science fiction.
Alien Sociology: December 13
Part 2
Shakespeare Music
Peter Maxwell Davies for alto-flute and piccolo, oboe. clarinet, bass-clarinet, horn. bassoon and double-bassoon. guitar, fombone, percussion. viola, and double-bass
Conducted by John Carewe
BBC commission: 1st performance
10.4* String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74 No. 3...Haydn
Given before an invited audience in the John Lewis Auditorium , 4 Old Cavendish Street, London, W.l. Applications for tickets, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. should be sent to [address removed]
Next Tuesday, from the Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, London, E.C.2: Bach and Purcell programme conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
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by PETER WILLIS , A.R.I.B.A.
Fellow of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University
A study of Pope's famous garden at Twickenham, of Matthew Prior's at Down Hall, and of the poets' friendship with Charles Bridgeman reveals new evidence for the origins of the English landscape movement.
Second broadcast
