British in Flavour
M USIC FOR AN OCCASION is the title of a BBC programme with a very British flavour which 2YA_ will broadcast at 8.0 p.m, on Friday, January 15. The flavour is not surprising, for the transcription was recorded from a programme first broadcast on Empire Day. In it Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the BBC Opera Orchestra, with Webster Booth as soloist. There are two of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches in the programme, as well as William Walton’s Crown Imperial march, composed for the Coronation of George VI. The other orchestral items are by Sullivan, German, Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger. Finally, Webster Booth sings three of Shakespeare’s songs to the music of Roger Quilter and a song from Coleridge Taylor’s Hiawatha,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 755, 8 January 1954, Page 15
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125British in Flavour New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 755, 8 January 1954, Page 15
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