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VERA TOWSEY (Pianoforte)
Contributors
Pianoforte:
Vera
Towsey
Directed by JOSEPH MUSCANT
From THE COMMODORE THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH
Contributors
Directed By:
Joseph
Muscant
by H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G. in the presence of THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
Relayed from THIEPVAL, FRANCE
(For order of Service see facing page)
by a Jury of Six Maids and Six Bachelors
According to Ancient Custom
THECLAIMANTSWILL BE SELECTED)
FROM :
Mr. and Mrs. PORTER, Poplar Mr. and Mrs. S. G. NICHOLLS , Axminster
Mr. and Mrs. ANDREW SAMS , Dunmow Relayed from CAUSEWAY MEADOWS,
ÐUNMOW
Contributors
Unknown:
Mrs. S. G.
Nicholls
Unknown:
Mrs. Andrew
Sams
Judge:
Colonel T
Gibbons
Counsel for the Flitch:
Philip
Guedalla, Esq.
Counsel for the Claimants:
Edwards. T.
Davies, Esq.
Court Chaplain:
Rev. P. E. T.
Widdrington
Clerk of the Court:
H J
Smith Esq
Court Usher:
John
Gibbons, Esq
Foreman of the Jury:
C. S.
Sutthery Esq.
' From Sunshine to Shadow'
Mary Stuart , Princess and Queen by HELEN DREVER
(From Edinburgh)
Contributors
Unknown:
Mary
Stuart
Unknown:
Helen
Drever
WEATHER FORECAST, FIRST GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN
The ITALIAN AND SPANISH SONGS OF WOLF
Sung by WINIFRED RADFORD (Soprano) and SUMNER AUSTIN
(Baritone)
SUMNER AUSTIN
Italian :
Und steht Ihr früh am Morgen auf (When in the early Morning)
Dor Mond hat eine schwere Klag' erhoben
(The Moon hath been most grievously complaining)
Gesegnet sei, clurch dem die
Welt entstund (Give praise to Him through Whom the World)
Nun lass uns Frieden schliessen
(My dearest Life, now let us)
Ein Standchen Euch zu bringen (A Serenade to sing you)
Schon streekt' ich aus im Bolt die müden Ulieder (When Day is done)
Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen (If thou wouldst see thy Lover)
Ihr seid die Allerschonste (Indeed thou art the fairest)
English from tlte translations by Lily Henkel
HUGO WOLF died in 1903, but it is only within recent years that the recognition of his genius has become at all general. Now, however, there are many who declare that he is greater than Schubert, and consequently the greatest of all song-writeis. s. But to rank the very great in order of greatness is almost always unprofitable. To compare and contrast them as artists is better, for Wolf and Schubert had much in common. Both, for example, died young, and although Wolf lived twelve years longer, his period of active composition was shorter even than Schubert's, since Wolf wrote the greater part of his many hundred songs within a stretch of four years. Both of them, too, worked much in the same manner. Wolf would literally become possessed by the poem he was setting, as would Schubert Each composed with feverish, almost inhuman, rapidity, and without pause or hesitation. We have all read of the speed with which Schubert produced his songs, sometimes several in a day. Wolf did the same, and would often keep going in this manner for months at a time.
Where, however, Wolf differed from Schubert and from all his predecessors was that Wolf was at the same time both poet and musician.
He was the first composer to regard the poem as an integral part of the whole and of equal importance with the music, whereas Schubert makes almost the whole of his appeal through the music alone. Wolf, on the other hand, set his poem so that, note for note, bar for bar, and phrase for phrase, the music interpreted 'he poem and the poem supplemented the music. He did not write for the voice accompanied by the piano, but for the voice ond piano as an inseparable whole.
Wolf's greatness lies not only in the beauty of the music of his songs, bat in his supreme faculty of piercing to the very heart of a poem and finding there the music that he sought.
Contributors
Soprano:
Winifred
Radford
Unknown:
Dor
Mond
Unknown:
Ein Standchen
Euch
Unknown:
Lily
Henkel
Unknown:
Hugo
Wolf
Mr. DESMOND MACCARTHY
MR. DESMOND MACCARTHY , literary and dramatic critic, and Editor of Life and Letters, reviews new books in a broadcast causerie made notable by his sympathetic understanding of the moderns and erudite grasp of the classics. He is one of the few modern critics who judges contemporary books and plays by an ideal standard, and praise from him is a safe, if severe, guide to taste.
Contributors
Unknown:
Mr. Desmond
MacCarthy
Unknown:
Mr. Desmond
MacCarthy
WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN
Miss SUSAN ERTZ: 'The America that isn't in the paper'
HOLLYWOOD and New York, with all the instruments of 'ballyhoo,' films, press, radio and brazen throats, have projected upon the world a picture of American life that may bo true of a vociferous minority, but certainly is not of the majority of its inhabitants.
Miss Susan Ertz , author of ' Now East, Now
West,' ' Madame Clare ,' and other novels, gives an unvarnished account of the American life that is not ' news,' in the second talk of a new and vigorous series.
Contributors
Unknown:
Miss Susan
Ertz
Unknown:
Madame
Clare
Saturday, August 10, 1895
DOROTHY BENNETT
(Soprano)
MARGARET BALFOUR
(Contralto)
THORPE BATES (Baritone)
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Led by LAURANCE TURNER )
Conducted by SIR HENRY J. WOOD
Contributors
Soprano:
Dorothy
Bennett
Contralto:
Margaret
Balfour
Baritone:
Thorpe
Bates
Unknown:
Laurance
Turner
Conducted By:
Sir Henry J.
Wood
BILLY COTTON and his BAND
Contributors
Unknown:
Billy
Cotton