ST. ANDREW'S EVE AT 2YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 19, 25 November 1927, Page 5

ST. ANDREW'S EVE AT 2YA

The Orpheus Quartet will mark the eve of St. Andrew’s Day with a programme delightfully appropriate to the occasion. Many of the numbers selected for presentation will be characteristic of Bonnie Scotland. The quartet will sing ‘Hail to the Chief," a stirring martial melody, "Will Ye No Come Back Again?" and "The Blaebells of Scotland." ‘The former is a pseudo-Jacobite song composed by Lady Nairnse about 1820, It is now used by Scottish pipers as a lament. . The ladies of the party will sing as a duet Burns’s poem, ‘O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast?" and the gentlemen will render George Hayden’s beautiful number, ‘As I Saw Fair Clara Walk Alone." ‘This duet breathes all the beauty of the Old’ Land at the carly snow season, Mrs. larris and Mr. Barnes will sing ‘‘Angus MacDonald’ and "Be Kind to Old Grannie’’ respectively. The last-named is a number rich in pathos, and will, doubtless, take many listeners back to childhood’s davs, when "auld grannie"’

meant so much to them. Mr. Coe is singing a number from the vld comedy opera, "Doris," by Collier, "So Tare Thee Well," and Miss Mackie is singing "Coming Home Along," by May

Brale, the composer of so many appealing songs. . Associated with the Orpheus Quartet will be Mr. Douglas Stark, Scottish comedian, aud Piper A. D. Small. Mr. Stark is acknowledged to be one of the cleverest exponents of Scottish humour in this Dominion. His light comedy work has delighted innumerable city and provincial audiences, while with many thousands of radio listeners he is a great favourite. It may be taken for granted that Piper A. D. Small will have a very large and appreciative audience. ,