BIG NIGHT FOR 1YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 3, 5 August 1927, Unnumbered Page

BIG NIGHT FOR 1YA

KINEST PROGRAMME YET The concert to’ be given on Thursday,.August 11, will wn- _ douvtedly be. the tinest ever broadcast from 1YA. It has been prepared by the Aeoliay Orchestra, one of the city’s lead: ing amateur musical organisa: tions. ' Tbe vocalists will be Miss Ina Thompgon and Mr. Walter Brough. Miss Thompson is ? contralto of conspicuous ability. She has sung for the Auckland Choral Society, Bohemian Orchestra, Municipal Band, aud Royal Male Choir. She was champion lady vocalist at the Auckland Competitions in 1926, aud at Napier the same year. ‘This will be her first appearapce before the miuicroplione. Mr. Walter Brough’s fine baritone voice is well known to and popular with listeners. ' The Avelian Orchestra first came into existence six or seven years ago as the "Auckland Amateur "Musical Club." Starting in a small way, it grew rapidly under the able‘conductorship of Mr. W Kidgar Webb, a musician of extensive English and colonial orchestral experience. ‘wo years ago the concert hall of the orchestra was changed from the Grafton Library to the Town Hall, where it now performs regularly. ‘The Aeolian Orchestra at present has a membership roll of 58 players, and is the second largest combination of its kind in Auckland. It aims to play music of a classical calibre in addition to the more popular type of music. The classics are well represented on the -programme to be given, while the popular taste will Le catered for in the ‘Raymond’? overture and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Mikado." For the information of listeners the following notes on the numbers to be played are given :- . The "London Symphony." The "Tondon Symphony," by Haydn, consists of four movements, the first of which: will he played; (a) Adagio and Mlegro: Opens in slow, stately style,’ with marked cotitrasts of tone, leading into the sprightly Allegro, which contains difficult runs and quick-bowing passages for strings, with wind briuging in attractive counter-melodies. Vranz Joseph Haydn (1782-1809), most distinguished of Austrian composers, gained his great command of composition largely without technical guidance. After holding various high musical posts in the Courts of Kurope, Haydn twice Visited Hneland with the violinist Salomon, in 1791 and 1794. It was in Lon(Continued outside column next page), |