The first of the B.B.C.'s winter season of Symphony Concerts
will be broadcast on Wednesday next. The season consists of eighteen concerts and extends until the end of March. Dr. Adrian Boult will conduct eleven of the concerts, and Sir Henry Wood five, leaving guest-conductors with the barest tit-bit. Ansermet is down to conduct Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, Schonberg his new Variations for Orchestra (listeners may recall the performance given during the course of last year's Contemporary Music Concerts), and Eiger is to appear in person at two of the three concerts constituting the " Elgar Celebration." With one exception (Adelheid Armhold) the soloists are all tried favourites in this country, and the most interesting novelty is Ilindemith's new oratorio, Das Unaufhorliche. So far as contents go, the prospectus offers an inviting whiter's entertainment for
listeners : it-only remains to be seen how the orchestra will acquit itself. * * * *
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