Voices and Strings from 2YA

New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 12

Voices and Strings from 2YA

WO new radio features by local artists, Among My Souvenirs, and Mosaic, will be on Station 2YC’s programmes on Wednesday, November 30, at 7.30 and 8.25 respectively (and on 2YA’s the three following Wednesdays, at 7.30 and 8.30). Among My Souvenirs will present in vocal solos and duets withestring accompaniments songs that were on everybody’s lips from the beginning of this century till the late Twenties, and two different singers will be heard in each of the four broadcasts. Included in the first programme will be "Wanting You" (from The New Moon), "Why Do I Love You?" (from Showboat), "On the Banks of the Wabash," "Kiss Me Again" and "Just to Linger in Your Arms." The singers will be Merle and Don Gamble, Ken Macaulay and Joyce Izett, Betty Evans and Joseph Miller, and Molly Sutherland and John Hoskins. The string accompaniments will be played by an orchestra composed of Alex Lindsay, Zita Outtim and May Meek (violins), Russell Bond (cello), and Julian Hemingway (bass); Henry Rudolph, musical director and arranger, will play the pigno and vibraphone. Mosaic, by a choir of women’s voices conducted by Audrey Gibson-Foster,

will present a new series of poems and nursery rhymes set to music by famous composers. The first programme will feature music by Armstrong Gibbs, Geoffrey Show, Roger Quilter, Alec

Rowley and Michael Head, and in the following recitals Benjamin Britten, Percy Grainger and Landon Ronald will be represented. The final programme will -include a set of five Chinese

"Mother Goose" rhymes set to music by the American composer and teacher, Bainbridge Crist. The accompanist will be Loretta Cunninghame, and there will be poetry readings by Helen Paine.