THE WEEK AT 1YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 9, 16 September 1927, Page 7

THE WEEK AT 1YA

IYA studio will be handed over to Mr. Peter Black and his party on ‘uesday evening. They will even do their own announcing. The programme will consist of vocal quartets, choruses, and soles, with instrumental trios, and solos. The instrumental trio will consist of Miss Ruby Brame, Miss Marion McMurtrie:and Mr. Peter Black. This combination won first prize at the recent Auckland Competitions Society’s annual festival. Messrs. Littler "and Farrow, vocalists in Mr. Black’s party, won the vocal duet section. Mr. J. W. Hayden, who is to speak at 1YA on Tuesday on "The Progress and Development of Hydro: Electric Power in the Dominion," is chairman of the Waitemata Electric Power Board. He was intimately connected. with the installation of the New Plymouth Borough Coun: cil hydro-electric scheme, and he has recently been on a visit to Arapuni. Ay interesting talk should result. Mr. Norman Watson, violin soloist with the Aeolian Orchestra, and well known by radio and on the concert platform, is to play at 1YA on Wednesday. The captivating ‘Floral Dance" will be one of three very popular.items to be sung by Mr. Clinton Williams at LYA on Wednesday. Mr. Williams is a bass ' baritone singer of outstanding ability. Whistling and bird mimicry will constitute a novelty item at 1YA on Wednesday. The talented artist will be Mr. Reg. Bell Miss Berta Carr, mezzo-soprano, who will be introdiiced to 1YA listeners on Friday evening, is well known locally on the concert platform, and her rendering of "Spring Waters," by Rachmaninoff, will be something completely out of the ordinary.

A pianiste who will be heard for the first time from LYA will be Miss Maida Hooker, who will play on ‘Tuesday evening. She is a student of the Matthay School of Music, and is an Associate of the Royal College of Music. Miss Hooker spent a considerable period in the Old Countrv studying the latest methods, and will contrast the older school of composers in Schumann’s *"Whims" or "Grillen" with Debussy’s tnodern style in "Gardens in the Rain." Mr. Barry Coney, who is to sing again at 1YA on Friday, has been engaged by the Wellington Choral Society to take the part of ‘Ama: nasro" in the performance of Aida" in the Empire City. "The reason why your motor knocks" will be ‘"‘Gargovle’s"? subject at LYA on Friday, at 7.30 Mr, and Mrs. W. Leather, whose voices have been heard from Pitt Street Church as well as from LYA studio, are sinving on Saturday evening. ‘The well known ‘Fishermen of Eneland" will be given by Mr, James Hutton,