Scenes for Presentation

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 34, 6 March 1931, Page 2

Scenes for Presentation

THE three scenes from "Lucia -dl Lammermoor" to be presented are: The first depicts the assemblage in the castle hall witnessing the marridge of: Lucy of Lammermoor with Lord Arthur Bucklaw. "Hail to the enc Day" will be sung by Mr. @, » tenor soloist, and the company. The next portrays the peasants and . domestics making merry, and their consternation and dismay when Raymond tells them that Lucy has gone insane and stabbed her husband. O Dire Misfortune" will be sung by Signor Cesaroni and company. The third and final scene opens when Lucy, pale and almost: fainting, signs the document making her Lady Arthur Bucklaw, a stranger enters, sword ‘in hand. ‘It is Edgar of Ravenswood. Then follows the sextet — "Chi me frena" (What Restrains Me) which will. be sung by Mesdames D. Ardrey and H.- Maplesden, Messrs. R. Porteous, R. Trewern, G. Gray and Signor Lucien Cesaroni. .'To attempt to deseribe this sextet is superfluous; only music may express music. Its flowing melody, majestic rhythm, and gorgeous ; harmonies and climax: are known to all; but few realise how magnificently it expresses in sound the conflicting emotions of this dramatic scene.