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: NEWS SUMMARY
and Weather Forecast: PRECOCIOUS GENIUS
Music by composers in their teensOverture: A Midsummer Night's
Dream (Mendelssohn)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by PAUL KLETZKl
7.16* Violin Concerto in D major
(K.211) (Mozart)
(cadenzas by Arthur Grumiaux)
ARTHUR GRUMIAUXwith the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
7.36* Symphony in D major
(Arriaga)
LONDON MOZART PLAYERS
Conducted by HARRY BLECH on gramophone records
Contributors
: NEWS SUMMARY
and Weather Forecast: ST. CECILIA ORCHESTRA
Leader, Lionel BentleyConductor, TREVOR HARVEY
Contributors
: NEWS SUMMARY
and Weather Forecast: THIS WEEK'S COMPOSERS
The sons of BachRecords of trio sonatas and keyboard music by J. C F ., W. F ., and C. P. E. Bach
Contributors
: MUSIC MAKING
ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) Rkx STEPHENS (piano)BBC CHORUS
Conducted by ALAN G. MELVILLE
PORTIA WIND ENSEMBLE
Third broadcast of Song of the Sun
HUMPHREY SEARLE'S Song of the Sun is included in this morning's Music Making to mark his fiftieth birthday, which falls today. It is one of his most recent works, being written for last year's Cheltenham Festival, where its great vitality made a tremendous impact, and it is the recording of this first performance which is being repeated this morning. The words are translations by IRENE NICHOI. SON of three Nahuatl poems, the Nahuatls being precursors of the Aztecs.
Contributors
: INTERMEZZO
Overture: Fingal's Cave(Mendelssohn)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
10.401 Clarinet Concerto No. 1, in C minor (Spohr)
GERVASE DE PEYER with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
11.1* Ballet movements (Les Pati. neurs) (Meyerbeer)
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by JEAN MARTINON on gramophone records
This programme is being broadcast experimentally on the Zenith-G.E. f'ilot tone stereophonic system from the VHF transmitters at Wrotham and Dover, Kent. To hear the programme in stereophony a special receiver, or an adaptor for use with an existing receiver. is necessary. Listeners with normal VHF receivers will hear the programme monophonically as usual.
Contributors
: THIRD AND FINAL TEST MATCH
at The Oval England v. South AfricaFirst day
Ball-by-ball commentaries by JOHN ARLOTT
CHARLES FORTUNE
ROBERT HUDSON
Comments on play and summaries by F. R. BROWN and NORMAN YARDLEY
11.15-1.35*
Including lunchtime summary
2.10*-4.20* including teatime summary
4.30*-6.35 including close of play summary
Contributors
: COMPARATIVE RELIGION
4: Judaism by ALBERT I. POLACKEducation Officer, the Council of Christians and Jews
Reader, RALPH TRUMAN
: THE ELIZABETHAN NATION
Elizabethan Culture and Ideas5: The Peasants and the Land
It's difficult for us to understand the attitudes of people brought up in the Elizabethan countryside.
JOAN THIRSK, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English Local History at the University of Leicester examines the nature of the local community in Tudor England, and discusses how it responded to attempts to interfere with its way of life-particularly to the Enclosure movement
Readings from contemporary sources by JOHN GLEN and MALCOLM TERRIS
Produced by Howard Smith
First broadcast on February 11
A paperback is available
Eight lectures by Joel Hurstfield on Elizabethan Government and Society: Tuesdays at 7 P.M.
Contributors
: HENRY WOOD PROMENADE CONCERT
Barry Tuckwell (horn)Stephen Bishop (piano)
Simon Streatfeild (viola)
London Symphony Orchestra Leader, John Georgiadis
Conducted by Colin Davis
From the Royal Albert Hall ,
London
Part 1
Contributors
: * THE DECLINING ROMAN EMPIRE
First of four weekly talks by different speakersA. H. M. JONES
Professor of Ancient History tn the University of Cambridge corrects the popular notion that the Empire declined principally from internal weakness. It was exhausted by the pressure of external enemies and the necessity to maintain a great army of defence which its primitive ecoromy and primitive technology were unable to sustain. But whereas the West was broken, the Eastern Empire survived.
Roman Currency by Philip Grierson : September 2
Contributors
: * PROMENADE CONCERT
Part 2Colin Davis broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
: THE CANDLESTICK
Le ChandelierA comedy by Alfred de Musset
Translated and adapted for broadcasting by PETER MEYER with Susannah York , Joss Ackland
Willoughby Goddard and Gordon Gardner
Pianist, VIOLA TUNNARD
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
The action takes place tn Andre's house and garden in a small French provincial town in the middle of the nineteenth century
Second broadcast
Contributors
: BERNARDO LUCCHINETTI
Concerto in B flat major, for two organsRUDOLF EWERHART and MATHIAS SIEDEL (organs) on a gramophone record
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: THE NEWS
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