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@ From page 41 of ' New Every Morning '
KEVIN FITZGERALD
Here is a talk on this lost art by one who has found it again and gloats over his enjoyment of it, for Kevin Fitzgerald knows the wisdom of that wise saw of Jorrocks's. ' Where I dines I sleeps and where I sleeps I has my breakfast'. Not for him the turning out on a winter's night to spend the evening with Other people. Let them come to him.
And they do, and over his fire give him their confidences. At midnight, in his carpet slippers, he stands in the hall for a moment and sees them go out reluctantly into the wind or snow.
And returning to his snug room, the glow of the fire, he chuckles to himself : ' Not me '.
In this amusing talk he will describe the ghastiv evening he once spent rushing wildly about London in search of pleasure which he never found-an evening which he determined never to repeat and which caused him to cultivate the lost art of staying at home.
Contributors
Unknown:
Kevin
Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Kevin
Fitzgerald
at the Organ of the Ritz Cinema,
Belfast
David Martin (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
James Whitehead (violoncello)
Contributors
Violin:
David
Martin
Viola:
Frederick
Riddle
Viola:
James
Whitehead
Directed by HARRY DAVIDSON from the Commodore Theatre,
Hammersmith
Contributors
Directed By:
Harry
Davidson
Jascha Heifetz (violin): Caprice,
Op. 1, No. 24 (Paganini, arr. Auer) ; Fritz Kreisler (violin) : Larghetto (Weber, arr. Kreisler) ; Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven (Weber, arr. Kreisler)
Joseph Szigeti (violin) : Fountain of Arethusa—Myths, Op. 30 (Szymanmvski) ; Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Pastoral (Stravinsky)
Contributors
Violin:
Jascha
Heifetz
Violin:
Fritz
Kreisler
Violin:
Joseph
Szigeti
Opera by Humperdinck
Act I. Scene : The Home
Act II. Scene : The Forest
Conductor, Geoffrey Corbett
Producer, Sumner Austin
Chorus Master, Geoffrey Corbett from Sadler's Wells Theatre
After the overture the curtain rises on Hansel and Gretel in their cottage; they are romping and singing when their mother returns to find them neglecting the tasks she had set them. She packs them off to the woods to gather berries, and no sooner have they gone than the father comes home ; he has had a lucky day selling his brooms. When he hears where the children are, he is horrified, and soon makes his wife share in his terror ; a witch, he tells her, lives in the wood, who eats little children. They rush off together in search of Hansel and Gretel.
Act II is in the wood where the children have lost their way. In answer to their prayer, as they lie down to sleep, angels come down from on high to guard them.
Contributors
Conductor:
Geoffrey
Corbett
Chorus Master:
Geoffrey
Corbett
Gretel:
Sybil
Hambleton
Hänsel:
Rose
Morris
Mother:
Edith
Coates
Father:
Arnold
Matters
Sandman:
Myfanwy
Edwards
' Pigs is Pigs', by ELLIS PARKER BUTLER , read by EUGENE LEAHY
Contributors
Unknown:
Ellis Parker
Butler
Read By:
Eugene
Leahy
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, E. GODFREY BROWN
HUGH CARSON (baritone)
William Walton 's ' Façade ' was written in 1923 when the composer was twenty-one years of age. It was originally conceived as a series of poems by Edith Sitwell to be recited through a megaphone with musical accompaniment, for flute, clarinet, saxophone, 'cello, trumpet, and percussion. These accompaniments are mostly in the form of very clever and witty parodies of popular dance tunes, ranging from the polka to the foxtrot.
In 1926 Walton revised this work and a!so arranged an orchestral Suite for concert use, in which form it was played as an interlude during the Diaghilev Russian Ballet seasons, and will be heard this evening.
A few years ago, however, the Vic-
Wells Ballet thought of the happy idea of adapting the music of ' Fa9ade ' as a ballet, and accordingly one of the cleverest and wittiest of modern ballets was produced, Frederick Ashton being responsible for the choreography and John Armstrong for the costumes and decor. There is no story to the ballet; it consists merely of a series of brilliant little character studies. On its first performance at Sadler's Wells it was an immediate success, and since that time it has been one of the most popular ballets in the Vic-Wells repertoire.
Contributors
Conductor:
E. Godfrey
Brown
Baritone:
Hugh
Carson
Unknown:
William
Walton
Unknown:
Edith
Sitwell
Produced:
Frederick
Ashton
Produced:
John
Armstrong
Directed by HENRY HALL
Contributors
Directed By:
Henry
Hall
including Weather Forecast
The Radio Gazette
A Recorded Review of Events at Home and Abroad
6.30 Yr Egwyl Gymraeg
@ (The Welsh Interlude)
Datganiad o Ganeuon
BRENDA HARRIS (soprano) (A Recital of Welsh Songs by Brenda Harris , soprano)
(From Cardiff)
Contributors
Soprano:
Brenda
Harris
Songs By:
Brenda
Harris
ESSIE ACKLAND (contralto)
An old favourite with new features
Produced by A. W. HANSON
Contributors
Produced By:
A. W.
Hanson
of Mr. Penny ' by MAURICE MOISEIWITSCH
Episode No. 6 : 'Mr. Penny's Christ- ! mas Box '
Presented by MAX KESTER with RAE JENKINS AND HIS Bijou ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST LONGSTAFFE
Contributors
Presented By:
Max
Kester
Unknown:
Rae
Jenkins
Conducted By:
Ernest
Longstaffe
Chamber Music and Lieder
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
John Francis (flute)
The London String Trio:
Jean Pougnet (violin)
William Primrose (viola)
Anthony Pini (violoncello)
John Francis and Trio
Flute Quartet in A
1. Andante 2. Minuetto 3. Rondo: Allegretto grazioso
Elsie Suddaby
Ridente la calma
Wie sanft, wie ruhig fühl' ich hier
Wiegenlied
Un moto di gioja
Trio
From Divertimento in E flat
Minuetto: Allegro
Allegro
Contributors
Soprano:
Elsie
Suddaby
Flute:
John
Francis
Violin:
Jean
Pougnet
Viola:
William
Primrose
Violoncello:
Anthony
Pini
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
NORMAN LONG
A Song, a Joke and a Piano
THE WESTERN BROTHERS
(Kenneth and George)
ELSIE AND DORIS WATERS
Radio's ' Gert and Daisy'
. LARRY ADLER
The Wizard of the Harmonica
GIPSY NINA
American Singing Accordionist
THE BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
. Conducted by CHARLES SHADWELL
Contributors
Unknown:
Larry
Adler
Conducted By:
Charles
Shadwell
(Section E)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conducted by FRANK BRIDGE
THE BBC MEN'S CHORUS
HAROLD WILLIAMS (baritone)
Contributors
Unknown:
Laurance
Turner
Conducted By:
Frank
Bridge
Baritone:
Harold
Williams
from the Dorchester Hotel
including Weather Forecast