Jascha Veissi (viola) Ernest Lush (piano)
by W. W . Rostow
Professor of Economic History at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Professor Rostow considers the recent course of United States policy on aid to backward areas, and its appeal to American public opinion, in the light of President Eisenhower's proposal for an economic development fund.
Second of two programmes from
David Hume's ' Dialogues
Concerning Natural Religion'
Arranged by Richard Peters
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
("The Troubador")
An opera in three acts
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
Based on the Spanish play "El Trovador" by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez
Music by Verdi (sung in Italian)
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson)
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor)
Conducted by Edward Downes
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The action takes place in Spain at the beginning of the fifteenth century
ACT 1
Scene 1: The guardroom of the palace of Aliaferia.
Scene 2: The palace garden at night.
Scene 3: A gypsy camp in the Biscayan Mountains.
Reminiscences by Sewell Stokes
ACT 2
Scene 1: The cloisters of the Jerusalem convent
Scene 2: The camp of the Aragonese army before the fortress of Castellar
Scene 3: A room in the fortress of Castellar
by Florence O'Donoghue
Mr. O'Domghue questions some of the accepted interpretations of the Irish war of independence an i inspects the underlying motives of those who joined in the national struggle. 'What happened in the Ireland of the early twenties,' he says, ' is not merely of academic interest.'
ACT 3
Scene 1: A courtyard of the prison of the Aljaseria palace
Scene 2: Inside the prison
The second of four programmes of poems by Baudelaire to commemorate the centenary of ' Les Fleurs du Mal'
French readers:
Madeleine Renaud and Gerard Phillpe
English readers:
Mary Wimbush and Stephen Murray
Translations by L. E. Jones
Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall
Preludes and Fugues
In C. C minor. C sharp,
C sharp minor, and D minor
(Das wohltemperlerte Clavier, Book 2) played by Rosalyn Tureck (piano) on gramophone records
