Extract from 1938 Radio Times and newspaper cuttings

Extract from 1938 Radio Times and newspaper cuttings

Two pages removed from the Radio Times covering 6 May 1938. A central box draws attention to The Schools Music Festival being broadcast that afternoon from the Royal Albert Hall. Newspaper cuttings record the same event and lists the names of the Portsmouth children taking part, they include Frank.

1938-05-06

Two printed pages, two cuttings

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RADIO TIMES, ISSUE DATED APRIL 29
65

NATIONAL FRIDAY

DROITWICH 200 kc/s, 1500 m. LONDON, AND NORTH 1149 kc/s, 261.1m. For Scottish National see page 72
MAY 6, 1938

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Schools' Musical Festival
The National Festival of the schools will be broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall this afternoon at 2.50. F.H. Grisewood will describe the scene.

(D) [italics] Programmes marked thus will be radiated by Droitwich, but not by London and North National transmitters. [/italics]

(D) 10.15 THE DAILY SERVICE
From page 37 of 'New Every Morning'

(D) [italics] Time Signal, Greenwich, at 10.30 [/italics]

(D) 10.30 Weather Forecast for Farmers and Shipping

(D) 10.45 'THE HEALTH OF THE SCHOOL CHILD'
Look after their Eyes by a Doctor

(D) 11.0 FOR THE SCHOOLS
Music and Movement for Juniors
ANN DRIVER

(D) 11.20 A Pianoforte Interlude by J.W. Horton

(D) 11.30 Music and Movement for Infants
ANN DRIVER

(D) 11.50 AN ORGAN RECITAL by Harry Moreton
from St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth
Overture in D . . . [italics] W. Faulkes [/italics]
Barcarolle in F minor [italics] Rubinstein, arr. H. Moreton [/italics]
Scherzo – Symphonique [italics] G. Debat-Ponson [/italics]
Caprice, The Brook . . . [italics] G.M. Dettner [/italics]
March (Symphony Cantate Ariane) [italics] Guilmant [/italics]

(D) 12.20 TOMMY KINSMAN AND HIS DANCE ORCHESTRA with HELEN McKAY
JOHNNIE JOHNSTON

(D) 1.0 'A CYCLING TOUR OF THE NORTH' – 2 by Harry Rudall
read by Felix Deebank
(Broadcast previously in the Northern programme on Sunday) [italics] (From North) [/italics]
This is the second of six talks. The author of them is a much travelled New Zealander who has spent many months exploring England, and the North particularly, either by cycle or on foot. Usually he camps; but sometimes will stay in inns, or lodgings, good or bad, and once even spent the night in a telephone box.

(D) 1.15 FRIDAY MIDDAY CONCERT
Under the direction of Johan Hock from Queen's College Chambers Lecture Hall, Birmingham
A Pianoforte Recital by Betty Humby
Sonata in E, Op. 109 . . . [italics] Beethoven [/italics]
1 Vivace, ma non troppo. 2 Adagio espressivo. 3 Prestissimo. 4 Andante molto cantabile ed expressivo con variazioni
Sonata in E, Op. 6 . . . [italics] Mendelssohn [/italics]
1 Allegretto con espressione. 2 Tempo di minuetto. 3 Adagio. 4 Molto allegro e vivace

(D) [italics] Time Signal, Greenwich, at 2.0 [/italics]

(D) 2.0 Interval Music

(D) 2.5 FOR THE SCHOOLS
Travel Talk 'The Swing of the Seasons' 'May in the Mediterranean' G.T. SWANN

(D) 2.25 Interval Music

(D) 2.30 Feature Programme and Topical Talks
The Empire Exhibition (Scotland)
A descriptive tour of the Exhibition at Glasgow
[italics] (Scottish) [/italics]

(D) 2.50 NATIONAL FESTIVAL of Schools' Musical Festivals of England (Non-Competitive)
Massed Choir of 1,000 Voices
National Festival Percussion Band
The London Symphony Orchestra Leader George Stratton
Conductors, Geoffrey Shaw, Cyril Winn, Stephen S Moore
At the Organ, G. Thalben Ball from the Royal Albert Hall

MASSED CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
England . . . [italics] Parry [/italics]
The Song of the Music Makers [italics] Cyril Winn [/italics]
National Songs:
The Oak and the Ash
Polly Oliver
Come unto these yellow sands [italics] Purcell [/italics]

ORCHESTRA AND PERCUSSION BAND
From the Suite, Wand of Youth [italics] Elgar [/italics]
1 The Tame Bear. 2 Fairies and Giants

[italics] Programme continued overleaf [/italics]

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR programmes for all Regions 5.0 – 6.0
877 kc/s REGIONAL 342.1 m.
5.0 A story for younger ones 'THE ADVENTURES OF THE LITTLE PIG' by F. le Gros and Ida Clark
followed by some gramophone music, and A story for older ones 'MOORHENS AND COOTS' by C.M. Skerrett-Rogers

Some of you may remember the first nature story by C.M. Skerrett-Rogers ever to be broadcast, although it was given as long ago as 1934. It was called 'Bird-watching', and proved that he had a very intimate knowledge of wild life. Nature stories of his have been broadcast ever since. The one that is to be told today has an object lesson in it. If your uncle comes back from India and tells you about the ingenious way in which he saw a native catching wild duck, think twice before you go to the pond and try to catch a moorhen in the same manner.

5.45 THE STAR-GAZER (Lt. Commander R.T. Gould)

1013 kc/s MIDLAND 296.2 m.
5.0 ANOTHER EPAMINONDAS STORY by Constance Egan, told by Dorothy Summers

5.10 'COME TO THE FAIR'
The month of May is the beginning of the season of fairs, and the long processions of gaily coloured caravans and waggons take to the road. Our programme today has an All Fair Flavour.

5.45 Regional Programme
668 kc/s NORTH 449.1. m.

5.0 'HANS CLODHOPPER' A play by Sybil Clarke from the fairy tale by Hans Andersen

THE PRESENDA TRIO will play more music you may have learnt

5.45 Regional Programme

804 kc/s WALES 373.1 m.
5.0 THE CANDLE JAR
A story by Dorothy Cooper, told by Elwyn

5.15 AROUND THE COUNTRY with William Aspden, Griff, and Joan
Won't you join them?

5.45 Regional Programme
977 kc/s N. IRELAND 307.1 m.

5.0 'TAKE PEN AND INK AND WRITE IT DOWN' A programme of material supplied by children
'I DON'T AGREE' A discussion between children

5.45 Regional Programme
767 kc/s SCOTTISH 391.1 m.

5.0 'THE WESTERN FISH', PART 5
a serial story for younger listeners by Ann Scott Moncrieff, and violin solos played by J. Mouland Begbie

5.30 THE MERRY, MERRY MONTH
A musical programme with songs sung by Miss Mouse and Juliette McLean

5.45 Regional Programme

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RADIO TIMES, ISSUE DATED APRIL 29

FRIDAY NATIONAL

MAY 6, 1938 DROITWICH 200 kc/s, 1500 m. LONDON, AND NORTH 1149 kc/s, 261.1 m. For Scottish National see page 72

MASSED CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Round, Summer is a-comin in
The Lass with the Delicate Air [italics] Arne [/italics]
Beyond the Spanish Main . . . [italics] Tatton [/italics]
Thanksgiving . . . [italics] Dyson [/italics]

ORCHESTRA
Overture, Shamus O'Brien . . . [italics] Stanford [/italics]

MASSED CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Pilgrim Song . . . [italics] Dunhill [/italics]
Folk Songs
Heave away, my Johnny [italics] arr. Cecil Sharp [/italics]
I will give my love an apple (Unaccompanied) [italics] arr. Vaughan Williams [/italics]
Since first I saw your face . . . [italics] Ford [/italics]
Ring out, ye crystal spheres [italics] Geoffrey Shaw [/italics]

ORCHESTRA AND PERCUSSION BAND
Dance a Cachucha (The Gondoliers) [italics] Sullivan [/italics]
Grand March (Alceste) . . . [italics] Handel [italics]

MASSED CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
Grasmere Carol . . . [italics] Somervell [/italics]
Let us now praise famous men [italics] Vaughan Williams [/italics]
Glad Hearts Adventuring [italics ] Martin Shaw [/italics]

This festival represents a combination of the non-competitive Schools' Musical Festivals of England, and the choir of a thousand voices will be drawn from forty-five local festival choirs throughout the country, representing thousands of schools, both elementary and secondary, in sixteen counties. There will also be a percussion band of fifty children from Bradford, Worcester City, and Bromsgrove.

The festival, which is under the direct patronage of H.M. the Queen, is intended, in the words of its promoters, as 'an act of homage to the Royal Family by the school-children of England.'

(D) 4.45 app. A Programme of GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
Leon Goossens (oboe) accompanied by Clarance Raybould; Gavotte [italics] (Rameau). [/italics] Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) [italics] (Kreisler). [/italics] Le Cygne (The Swan) [italics] (Saint-Saens). [/italics] Piece [italics] (Faure) [/italics]

5.0 THE BRONKHURST TRIO
[italics] Light Music for Trio No. 1 – Frank Bridge [/italics]
Miniatures, Third Set:
Valse russe
Hornpipe
Marche militaire
Miniatures, Second Set:
Romance
Intermezzo
Saltarello

This is the first of a new series of six programmes devoted to light music for piano trio. For the last eighteen months Henry Bronkhurst has been making extensive researches into the repertoire of light music that has been specially composed for this combination, and he has now acquired a considerable amount of material. In addition to Frank Bridge, the composers to be represented are Armstrong Gibbs, Leslie Woodgate, Alec Rowley, Eric Thiman, and Roger Quilter.

5.20 TROISE AND HIS MANDOLIERS with Don Carlos
Il sole tramonte (Sunset) [italics] Hinsby and Troise [/italics]
Das verliebte Bandoneon (Bandoneon in Love) . . . [italics] Codevilla [/italics]
Torna a Surriento (Return to Sorrento) . . . [italics] de Curtis [/italics]
Jack-Pot . . . [italics] Gaida [/italics]
The Dance of the Clowns . . . [italics] Finck [/italics]
Far Away . . . [italics] Thayer [/italics]
In Old Granada ) (Suite, Changing Skies) [italics] Ewing, arr. Cowlrick [/italics]
Hawaiian Rêverie } (Suite, Changing Skies) [italics] Ewing, arr. Cowlrick [/italics]
Catalana . . . [italics] Bonavolonta [/italics]
Cantastorie (Wandering Minstrel) [italics] Rusconi
Norwegian Dance, No. 2 . . . [italics] Grieg [/italics]
Goodbye, Hawaii [italics] Robins and Apollon [/italics]
Pattuglia giapponese (Japanese Patrol) [italics] Billi [/italics]

6.0 [italics] Time Signal Greenwich [/italics]
THE FIRST NEWS including Weather Forecast

6.20 National Bulletin for Farmers

6.25 'THE WEEK IN WESTMINSTER' Richard Acland, M.P.

6.45 REGINALD FOORT
At the BBC Theatre Organ with The Three Minx
George Melachrino and Ivor Dennis

7.15 BIG BILL CAMPBELL and his HILL-BILLY ROUND-UP
including Jack Curtis, Chief White Eagle and The Hill-Billy Band
Production by Anthony Hall

8.0 THE BBC ORCHESTRA (Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Concerto grosso in C minor (Op. 6, No. 8) . . . [italics] Handel [/italics]
1 Andante. 2 Grave. 3 Andante allegro. 4 Siciliana. 5 Allegro
A London Symphony [italics] Vaughan Williams [/italics]
1 Lento – Allegro risoluto. 2 Lento. 3 Scherzo (Nocturne): Allegro vivace. 4 Andante con moto – Maestoso alla marcia.
Epilogue: Andante sostenuto

[sketck] Cads College THE WESTERN BROTHERS – ARCHIE GLEN – DAVY BURNABY – PADDY BROWNE – CECIL JOHNSON – TOM KINNIBURGH – FRED MORRIS [/sketch]
The Cads are here! Tonight at 9.35, led by the Western Brothers, they introduce to you for the first time the remarkable educational establishment, 'Cads College' of Hounds Green, Dunceter.

9.0 [italics] Time Signal, Greenwich [/italics]
THE THIRD NEWS including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

9.20 'OUR NEW LISTENERS' – 3
During the last four months the BBC has undertaken an extension of its news service in foreign languages to the Arab-speaking countries and to the republics of Central and South America. This involves broadcasting to people in some twenty-five different countries and using three languages: Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese.

In this series four speakers will give a bird's-eye view of the geographical and historical background of the people concerned.

The third talk, on Brazil, will be given this evening by L. Dudley Stamp, D.Sc.

9.35 'CADS COLLEGE' devised and presented by The Western Brothers (Kenneth and George) with Archie Glen (dunce) Davy Burnaby (headmaster) Paddy Browne (botany mistress) Fred Morris (boots) Cecil Johnson (commentator) Tom Kinniburgh (Scotch master) and The Western Brothers (Head Prefects)
Visiting Old Boys: Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye
Cads Choir Collegiates, Charles Shadwell and the BBC Variety Orchestra
Produced by Cad George Barker (Cads College is situated at Hounds Green, Dunceter)

10.20 FRANK WALKER AND HIS OCTET
Overture, The Opera Ball [italics] Heuberger, arr. Kochmann [/italics]
Automaton Music and Waltz [italics] Delibes, arr. Nemeti [/italics]
Clair de lune (Moonlight) (Suite bergamasque) [italics] Debussy, arr. Mouton [/italics]
Variation (La Source) (The Spring) [italics] Delibes, arr. Weninger [/italics]
Ebb-Tide (Sea Music) . . . [italics] Cowlrick [/italics]
Gypsy Dance (Carmen) [italics] Bizet, arr. Roberts [/italics]
True Confession . . . [italics] Hollander [/italics]
Passepied (Le Roi s'amuse) (The King's Diversion) . . . [italics] Delibes [/italics]
The Little Leaden Soldiers . . . [italics] Pierné [/italics]
Flower Waltz (Nutcracker) [italics] Tchaikovsky, arr. Weninger [/italics]

11.0 MICHAEL FLOME AND HIS BAND with PAULA GREEN – SYDNEY GOWAN – MICK, MAC, and MIKE from the May Fair Hotel

[italics] Time Signal, Greenwich, at 11.30 [/italics]

11.30 – 12.0 DANCE MUSIC on gramophone Records

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3. - THE EVEN[missing letters]

CITY CHILDREN AT ALBERT HALL

National Festival

QUEEN HEARS SINGING OF 1,000 SCHOLARS

Thirty-six Portsmouth children were among the 1,000 elementary scholars who sang before the Queen, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and a great crowd in the Royal Albert Hall, London, yesterday afternoon.

The festival was a triumphant justification of the non-competitive festival campaign in schools, which has performed splendid work in instilling the love of the performance of music in schools, without the spirit of competition.

From the auditorium we looked up into a sea of white-clad children, rising immediately behind the London Symphony Orchestra, tier upon tier, right up to and into the highest gallery. The percussion bands, with their tambourines, castanets, triangles, and drums, were placed behind the orchestra.

When the Queen and the Princesses arrived a few minutes after three o'clock they were greeted with a burst of applause.

Dr. Geoffrey Shaw, H.M. Chief Inspector of Music in Schools, was on the dais awaiting the Royal arrival, and the National Anthem was immediately sung with all the fervour of 1,000 children about to have the proudest time of their lives.

English Works
As to the festival itself, it must be said that if this is what the movement is doing for music in England, there must be many more events of the same type. Already many provincial cities, including Portsmouth, have their festival, and the idea is spreading.

As befitted the occasion, the works performed were exclusively English, with the exception of one march by Handel, who was practically English by adoption.

Almost the whole of the singing was in unison, largely because there were many junior children in the great chorus, but descants were fitted into Somervell's Grasmere Carol with delightful effect, and the adaptation of England's oldest piece of music, "Summer is icumen in," was sung as a jubilant round.

The wave upon wave of sound which Dr. Shaw controlled so masterfully made this the most effective episode of the afternoon.

So well trained were the young vocalists that, despite their numbers, each word and syllable was as clear-cut as if they had been sung solo. Another remarkable feature of the singing was the purity of accent. This was the King's English in music at its best.

Though drawn from 15 counties between Durham and Dorset, the children sang as one, and there was never a noticeable clash of vowel sounds, which might well have been expected.

Sung to Perfection

The item that exemplified this most vividly was the lovely "Thanksgiving" of Dr. George Dyson, now Principal of the Royal College of Music, and well known in Portsmouth. It was sung to perfection.

Other items worth mentioning were "The Song of the Music Makers," conducted by the composer, Mr. Cyril Winn, who is another inspector of schools; Thomas Dunhill's noble "Pilgrim Song" from "Pilgrim's Progress"; A Somerset sea shanty "Heave away my Johnnie"; the charming smoothness of "Since first I saw your face," and Geoffrey Shaw's "Ring out ye crystal spheres."

The percussion bands, with the orchestra, played two pieces from Elgar's "Wand of Youth" suite, Handel's "Alceste" March, and "Dance a Cachuca" from "The Gondoliers." These numbers were conducted by Mr. Stephen S. Moore, Hon. Organizing Secretary of the festival.

Three rousing cheers were given for Her Majesty and the Princesses, at the end. – J.C.D.

PORTSMOUTH CONTINGENT

The Portsmouth contingent, which was in charge of Mr. Lutman Broadbridge in London, was taken around the Houses of Parliament yesterday morning by the Hon. Ralph Beaumont, M.P. for Portsmouth Central.

They spent Friday night in London at an hotel, having attended the rehearsal of the festival during the afternoon, and returned by coach last night.

The 36 children in the contingent were: Frank Chambers and Frank Jolliffe (Copnor), Edward Taylor, Cyril Wittcombe, Freda Davis, and Rita Dance (Highland Road), Roger Dean (Portsdown), Leonard Otley, and Ivy Lukey (Northern Parade), Gerald Dawson and Cyril Burnett (St. Luke's), Robert Daniell, Halden Hogg, William Kerridge, Stanley Jones, Joyce Foley, and Ethel Rogers (Kent Street), Fred Howard, Dilwyn Bowen, and Joyce Barker (Omega Street), Edward Simmonds, Joan Overington, and Muriel Williams (St. John's), Albert Needham, and Margaret Wilson (Corpus Christi), Albert Lyons, Peter Neville, Betty Griffiths, and Christine Gilfillan (Meon Road), Doreen Mittens, Phyllis Tuckey (Francis Avenue), Cathryn Hay and Gladys Moseley (Northern Secondary), Joyce Simmons and Sylvia Russell (Drayton Road), and Lucy Comben (Penhale Road).

Among the stewards of the Festival was Mr. G.L. Hore, who, as President of Portsmouth Festival, was a Vice-President of the National Festival.

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THE Queen and the two Princesses were attended at the National Schools' Festival of Music in Royal Albert Hall, London, yesterday afternoon by Lady Helen Graham and Captain Richard Streatfield. Her Majesty was received on arrival by Viscountess Boyne, who is President of the National Festival. Princess Elizabeth chatted animatedly with Lady Graham in the intervals, and Princess Margaret had many inquiries to make of her mother, to whom she was seen to hand, with childish charm, a red rose which she plucked from the Royal bouquet.