Listings
from the Carlton Restaurant.
(to 13.30)
The Station Orchestra
conducted by Warwick Braithwaite
Contributors
Musicians:
The Station
Orchestra
Conductor:
Warwick
Braithwaite
Mr. C.H. Driver
Contributors
Speaker:
C.H.
Driver
In 1880, Tchaikovsky paid a visit (his second) to Italy. He was pleased with the folk-songs, old and new, that he heard, and built this 'Fantasia' (as he called it) upon them. It was well received when first produced, though somo critics declared it to be vulgar.
The piece opens with a Trumpet call-a reminiscence of the military music he heard when he stayed near a barracks in Rome.
The Strings introduce the first of the folk-songs used in the work. After it has been worked up a little, the Trumpet call, repeated, brings in a pastoral tune, on the Oboes, that is piquantly picked out by several orchestral groups.
A new section Moderately quick, begins with a Violin theme, Horns having a contrasting melody at the same time. This is worked for a while, and the opening folk-song re-enters.
The last section of the work consists of a Tarantella, the extremely lively Italian dance that in superstitious days was esteemed a cure for the bite of the tarantula spider. The pastoral tune looks in for a moment on the Full Orchestra, and then the Tarantella is resumed, and the piece sweeps on to its riotous conclusion.
Mr. F.J. Harries
Contributors
Speaker:
F.J.
Harries
Miss Kathleen Freeman
As the eleventh of her 'Writers of Greece', Miss Freeman has chosen Theocritus, the creator of pastoral poetry, who, in the third century B.C., wrote lovely poems of nymphs and goatherds, gods and goddesses, which have formed the model for bucolic poets ever since.
Contributors
Speaker:
Kathleen
Freeman
Relayed to London
The Call to Arms! - and the blood of Britain set throbbing.
Reveille! - and the men of the sword have awakened.
'With hand made sure, clear eye and sharpen'd power
To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,
Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary.'
The Cardiff Station's programmes of war-time reminiscences have proved so popular that this one is to have a wider audience. As will be seen from the details given above, it surveys briefly the whole course of the war, as it left its record in popular song and story, from the beginning of enlistment to the demobilization.
Contributors
Singer:
Grace
Daniel
'They followed the sword that gleamed and sang
They held, they fought, they stood
Where rivers of doom roared black with gloom
Through raging Mametz Wood.'
Donald Davies
'What wonder their glory liveth, who to sorrow bade good-morrow, and filled the gloom with laughter.
A rough diamond - a tender heart.'
Contributors
Singer:
Donald
Davies
'And he' as the old Ballad says, 'got edication befitting his station'.
John Rorke
Good-byee
Contributors
Singer:
John
Rorke
They held they fought, they stood, they won...
And then to "dear old Blighty".
Tommy Buys a Souvenir
by Laurence Craven.
The interior of a small estaminet in the fighting area in France. There is a well-worn counter, behind which stands the French girl, pretty and business-like. In addition to her stock of multi-coloured bottles of sirops, liqueurs, biere, vin rouge, vin blanc, etc., she has a small selection of cheap and mostly spurious souvenirs. The Tommy, not unlike Old Bill, is wearing his great-coat, full pack find equipment, and carries his rifle slung over his right shoulder. He opens the door and stands for a moment staring woodenly at the girl. Then she speaks.
Contributors
Writer (Tommy Buys a Souvenir):
Laurence
Craven
'The "Guerre" is "finie" and with it go Tommy's troubles'
Grace Daniel
Pack Up Your Troubles
Contributors
Singer:
Grace
Daniel
'The ship's siren once more but this time the word is "Home"'.
John Rorke and Yvette
John Rorke and Everybody
"Now Are We all Here - Yes!"
Contributors
Singer:
John
Rorke
Singer:
Yvette
The Station Orchestra
Contributors
Musicians:
The Station
Orchestra
Will Sing About Kisses and also:
"I've Turned Devonshire Down"...T.C. Sterndale Bennett
10.20 Orchestra
Contributors
Comedienne:
Yvette
Contributors
Singer:
John
Rorke