PROGRAMME TIT-BITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1031, 23 July 1930, Page 7

PROGRAMME TIT-BITS

N.Z. AND AUSTRALIAN STATIONS The Leys Institute Orchestra under the conductorship of Mr. Harold Baxter will supply the instrumental section of lYA’s programme this evening. 3YA has an excellent programme arranged for this evening, into which a few operatic numbers have been introduced. The major portion of the items' will be old favourites, such as "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia,” “Lorraine,” “Oft’ in the Stilly Night,” “The Battle Eve,” “Oh, Wert Thou in the Cold Blast,” “Under the Greenwood Tree,” “Sing a Song of Sixpence, ” “The Arrow and the Song,” “Danny' Deever,” “You in a Gondola” and “Marcheta” (Mexican Love Song). 4YA’s programme will be of a novelty nature, “Words and Music,” by the “Optimists.” From 2FC tonight the Melbourne Repertory Theatre Company will present “The Squirrel’s Cage.” The Rhythmic Three in concerted and vocal items will be appreciated by those who listen to 2BL. They will appear at 9.30 (New Zealand time). The weekly relay of dance music will be a feature of the programme from 4QG. TOMORROW EVENING Tomorrow evening the vocal portion of lYA’s musical programme will be contributed by Mr. Tom Moffitt (tenor) and Mrs. Laetitia Parry (soprano). Instrumental selections will be provided by the IYA Orchestral Octet. The whole of the 2YA programme with the exception of a short interval from the studio, will be devoted to a relay of the Wellington Symphony Orchestra’s second concert of the 1930 season. 3YA will be relaying a concert to be given by the Christchurch Male Voice Choir, assisted by the Cathedral Choristers.

The Metropolitan Band will open the programme from 2FC at 9.30 p.m. (N.Z. time), and will also be heard again during the evening. The Radio Revellers will provide revue items from 2BL, and the programme from 4QG will comprise classical music arranged by Mr. George Sampson, conductor of the Queensland State and Municipal Orchestra. • * • FRIDAY EVENING On Friday evening at IYA, the Orchestral Octet will be heard In selections from ”Der Rosenkavalier” and “Salome” (by Strauss), “Serenade,” “Callirhoe Suite” and “Scarf Dance” (by Chaminade). * * * The Lyric Quartet, assisted by Miss Veronica Mackenzie aaid the 2YA Orchestrina. will feature a programme of operatic and musical comedy items from 2YA. A light ppoular concert programme, to be followed by dance music, will b* broadcast from 3YA. Quartets will include the old favourite. “Anchored,” and “Londonderry Air.” Among the solos will be: "Love’s a Merchant,” “I Hear You Calling Me,(” “At Brendon Fair,” “Shipmates o’ Mine,” “Waiting,” “I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby,” and “The Windmill.” An excellent programme, including much variety, will be heard from 4YA.

The cricket scores in the fourth test match in England will be broad cast at Intervals by all the Australian stations. A sparkling variety show will be given by the Garrick Players from 2FC, and the early part of 2BL’s programme will include the negro rlay, “In Old Virginy.” An English comedy trio known as “The Entertainers,” will present amusing items from 4QG. SATURDAY EVENING From 8 to 9 on Saturday evening. IYA will present a studio concert (contributed by Madame Cora Melvin, Mr. Norman Day and the Mali Hawaiian Trio). IYA will also relay a concert by the Municipal Band under the conductorship of Mr. Christopher Smith. 2YA|s concert will serve to intro duce to listeners “The 8 O’clock Revue,” which has been specially written and arranged by Mr. Will Bishop, the well-known entertainer and comic song writer. Practically all the numbers are original, and listeners are in for a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Very popular will be 3YA’s programme (which will also be broadcast by 4YA). Mrs. Lucy O’Brien (soprano), Mrs. D. W. Stallard (contralto), Mr. Leslie Stewart (baritone) and Mr. F. S. Jackson (bass) will be singing. A trombone trio from the Woolston Band will present two Items, “The Three Trombonists” and "Comrades in Arms.” * . * Cricket scores in the test match will be broadcast from the Australian stations every half hour. 2FC will feature items by the Professional Musicians’ Union, and the Malieno Trio will broadcast popular selections from 2BL. “Whistling Rufus” will be heard in a musical novelty from 4QG at 9.45 (New Zealand time).

The x-eproduction given by modern radio receiving sets is now practically perfect, and it Is almost impossible to know, unless an announcement is made beforehand, whether the voice of a living person is being listened to, or whether the voice is being reproduced from a gramophone record. From 2YA recently this was tested out, when listeners were asked to identifv a voice which was put on the air in a vocal number not scheduled on the programme. The artist who sang the song was Miss Millicent Knight, who, a little while back, appeared regularly from 2YA in person. The item in this case, however, was a “recorded” one, as Miss Knight, who has since been married, now resides in England. The majority of the listeners sending in replies to this “mystery” tes-t, took it for granted that an artist was singing in person. Nearly 1,000 receiving sets in the Ohio State (U.S.A.) Penitentiary are owned by prisoners. /