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Delius Society Album No. 3 (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with the BBC and Royal Opera Choruses; Columbia: 14 sides). Blind, British-born Composer Delius spent much of his youth on a Florida orange plantation, remembered the singing of Florida Negroes, later based one of his finest tone poems, Appalachia, on these memories. The four-year-old Delius Society's best album to date contains Appalachian first recording, plus a sheaf of smaller items...
...belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent most of her time on stairways talking to the servants. When an inter-room telephone system was installed, the novel went swimmingly...
...Recent nightly "straight news" programs from British Broadcasting Corp. in German, designed to counteract the distorted news given by the Nazi officials to the German public, have had a welcome reception in many a German home. BBC has received a surprising number of unsigned letters from German listeners urging it to continue the broadcasts...
Arthur Bliss: Music for Strings (BBC Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; Victor: 6 sides). A bustling, not-too-modernistic suite by one of the most gifted of contemporary British composers...
This super jam-session was designed not primarily for its small U. S. audience but for English swing fans who heard it over an exclusive BBC broadcast. King of Swing Benny Goodman was conspicuously absent. He was at Manhattan's Town Hall playing with the sedate Budapest String Quartet in an unswung version of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major. Chamber-music alligators found Goodman's classical tooting almost in the groove...