A broadcast from the opening concert of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's season at Queen's Hall, London, will be heard by listeners to Transmission 4 on October 19 and earlier in the day there will bë a special performance, for Transmission 2 listeners, of the work to be broadcast. This—on both occasions it will be conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, BBC Director of Music—is. Brahms Symphony No. 1 fu C minor. Thi famous work might be called the "Cambridge Symphony," if it were given an English nickname. it wus composed in 1876, and Stanford, Professor of Music at Cambridge, arranged a performance which Brahms was invited to conduct. All efforts to persuade him, however, failed. By a coincidence, the last movement opens with an unintentional quotation of a theme resembling that of the "Cambridge Chimes," which Brahms had never heard. The BBC symphony orchestra of 119 players and the various sections into which it can be divided to meet the requirements of various types of music, is responsible for upwards of 400 programmes during the year. Its public concerts are regarded as events in British musical life. The orchestra owes much to its conductor, Sir Adrian Boult, who became the BBC's Director of Music in May, 1930. During the seven years immediately preceding his joining the BBC he was conductor of the City of (Birmingham Orchestra. Be-tore that, his enterprises included the conducting of the British Symphony Orchestra; a season with Diaghilev's Ballet; Sunday concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra; and Continental tours. He first established his reputation by his work for the Royal Philharmonic Society in 1918 and 1919.
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