1YA Lecture Recital

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 9, 12 September 1930, Page 6

1YA Lecture Recital

MES. DAISY BASHAM, whose lecture-recitals on famous composers are always appreciated by 1YA listeners, has chosen Cherubini for her subject on Friday, September 19. On this occasion she will be associated with Mr. Barry Coney, the well-known baritone. Jsisteners will find this lecture-recital to be of more than usual interest. Cherubini, born in Florence in 1760, lived to the great age of eighty-two. In the important development which music underwent in those long years, he had himself a large share; the Church and theatre music of France in particular, to which he devoted most of his mature work, owe him more than it would be easy to compute. For the most part "rave and serious, his music displays 2 breadth and vigour not unlike the rreat Beethoven’s; it is all sincere and dignified, even in its more light-hearted moods.