Around The Nationals

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 139, 20 February 1942, Page 20

Around The Nationals

ISS Rae Sanders, a young Hastings singer, who made her name as one of the stars of The Youth Show on the ZB stations, is now being heard on 2YH. She was "Jane Potts". in Oh Reggie! an Australian production, which was broadcast by the New Zealand Commercial stations, and in The Youth Show she specialised in swing numbers. She sang over 2YH on Tuesday of this week, end a photograph of her appears on the right. * * a GREETINGS to all Welshmen whose radios can receive 2YA will go from the Wellington Welsh Society when St. David’s Day celebrations are broadcast on Saturday, February 28. As the célebrations are to be held in the EnglishSpeaking Union rooms, it may be presumed that the broadcast will be intelligible to other people than the comparatively small number of Welshmen in the Dominion. The broadcast will open at 8.27 p.m. with the Welsh National Anthem "Hen Wlad Nhadau," followed by "Land of My Fathers." Music will then be performed by a vocal sextet, a choir, and the entire gathering. a * S a tribute to the late Ava Symons, Andersen Tyrer has made an arrange- ment of one of her favourite violin works, a "sonata-concerto " by Veracini, and this will have its first performance on Sunday evening, February 22, by the NBS String Orchestra for violin and keyboard. Mr. Tyrer has arranged it in the manner of a "concerto grosso," with solo Passages tossed about from one string instrument to another. He has had to do a lot of work on it, adding parts in the contrapuntal style of the 17th century, and says that he has not employed anachronistic modern devices, but has preserved the polyphonic texture of string music of Veracini’s period. The concerto will begin at 8.5 p.m. Ed * * DA ALLAN, a singer whose name is frequently seen in the National programmes, will be heard again from 4YA on February 26. Her performances in competitions and choral works have given her a Dominion-wide reputation and have brought favourable comment from overseas visitors. She received her early training in Christchurch where she was much in demand for concerts and choral festivals. * * * "THE famous Goldman Band which ‘" gives concerts in Central Park, New York City, every Sunday afternoon in the summer will be heard from 1YA on Thursday evening, February 26. Its founder was Edwin Franko Goldman, who has made a special study of band music, and is himself the composer of nearly a hundred marches and other pieces. Born in Kentucky 64 years ago, he founded the band in 1911 and since 1918 he has been the main force behind the free summer concerts.