Listings
: Yascha Krein and his Gypsy Orchestra
Traditional PiecesArmenian Dance
Rural Songs of Russia Rumanian Folk Songs Tabor (Caravan)
Hungarian Folk Songs
All arrangements by Yascha Krein
Contributors
: PART SONGS BY ALEC ROWLEY
The BBC Singers (B)Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
At the pianoforte, John Wills
Five English Pastorals
1 Prologue. 2 Pastorella. 3 Jillian of Berry. 4 Song to a Minuet. 5 Shall we go dance the Hay ?
The Castle
Down in yonder meadow Old Floyd Ireson Five Rondels
1 To the Sun. 2 Heigh Ho! 3 The Lovers' Song. 4 Night. 5 The Dance
Contributors
: THE ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip WhitewayConducted by Peter Montgomery
David Richardson (bass)
Contributors
: 'THE BLACK VEIL'
A short story by Charles Dickens , adapted for broadcasting by Nelson Welch , and read by Carleton Hobbs(First broadcast in the National programme on April 29)
Contributors
: ' HERE THEY ARE AGAIN'
The first of a weekly series of gramophone programmes of popular tunes you all remember: A LIGHT CLASSICAL CONCERT
Flora Mann (soprano)The Philharmonic String Trio:
David Martin (violin) ;
Frederick Riddle (viola) ;
James Whitehead (violoncello)
Contributors
: THE BAND OF HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL MARINES
(Chatham Division)(By permission of Brigadier A. L. Forster,
D.S.O.)
Conducted by Lieut. Thomas Francis
Director of Music, Royal Marines
Contributors
: THE HOTEL VICTORIA ORCHESTRA
Leader, Arthur Spiero from the Hotel Victoria, LondonTorero triunfador (The Victorian Toreador - Racho
That Old Feeling - Brown and Fain
Selection, The Cinema Star - Gilbert
Serenade in May - Bettinelli
Tango, Carmelita - Calza
Waltz, Fruits of Vienna - Czibulka
Yanosik - Smatek
Contributors
: TOMORROWS SONGS
in the Moreton and Kaye mannerA peep into the musical future with Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye at two pianos
Contributors
: A Programme of GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
Richard Crooks (tenor): Neapolitan Love Song (Princess Pat) (Herbert) ; Killarney (Balfe) ; Castles in the Air (Frau Luna ) (Lincke)Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Clemens Krauss : Liebeslieder (Love Songs) (Waltz) (Johann Strauss ).
Don Cossack Choir: Dance Song;
Song of the Cossacks (trad.) ; Blow, blow ; There's a Cloud of Dust ;
A Little Red Berry (trad.).
Contributors
: 'SONGS WITHOUT WORDS'
The Little OrchestraDirected by Jack Hardy
(Northern Programme)
Contributors
: THE SECOND NEWS
including Weather Forecast: An excerpt from the pantomime 'PUSS IN BOOTS'
with Harry Gordon Esme MarshallJones and Thomas Hazel Jennings
Jack Holden
De Haven and Page
Betty and Olga Pepino 's Circus
18 Sherman Fisher Girls
12 Eileen Rogan Children from the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow
Contributors
: THE BBC ORCHESTRA
(Section D)Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould A Jolly Concert for Twelfth Night
Marches by Sousa
Overture and Dances by Johann Strauss
March, The Liberty Bell
Overture, The Gypsy Baron
Waltz, Wiener Blut (Viennese Blood) Two Polkas:
1 Pizzicato. 2 Tritsch-Tratsch
Waltz, Roses from the South
A Musical Joke, Perpetuum mobile Waltz, The Emperor
March, The Stars and Stripes
Forever
Contributors
: HUNTLEY WRIGHT as ' Wun-Hi ' in 'THE GEISHA'
A broadcasting version of Owen Hall's story of a Tea House-with some additional pidgin English by Clifford W. Collinson , F.R.G.S.Lyrics by Harry Greenbank
Music by Sidney Jones (Composer of 'A Greek Slave', 'An Artist's Model', A Gaiety
Girl', etc.)
Characters ill the order of their appearance Officers of H M S Turtle :
Geisha, Tea Girls, Naval Officers,
Police, Tourists, etc.
The BBC Revue Chorus and The BBC Theatre Orchestra Conducted by Harold Lowe
Scenes
Act 1, The Tea House of a Thousand
Joys
Act 2, A Chrysanthemum Fete in the Palace Gardens
Adaptation and production by Gordon McConnel with the technical assistance of Rex Haworth
See the article by Gordon McConnel on page 6
The Geisha ' was broadcast in the National programme on Tuesday
Contributors
: JACK JACKSON AND HIS BAND
with HELEN CLAREJACK COOPER
JOE FERRIE
THE JACKDAWS from the Dorchester Hotel
Contributors
: A Programme of GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
International String Quartet: TwoFour-Part Fantasias, No. 2 and No. 8 (Purcell, arr. Warlock)
Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra: Rice'rcare a 6 voci (6 part Fugue) (From Musical Offering) (Bach, arr. Fischer)
Contributors
: LATE NEWS SUMMARY
including Weather ForecastAbout this project
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