1YA NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 30, 10 February 1928, Page 7

1YA NOTES

ENCES geen The next opera, from which excerpts | will be sung by the Madame Ainsley Quartet for the delectation of all lis-teners-in to 1YA, will be "Rigoletto." Some of the finest airs from this | famous opera haye been chosen for broadcasting on ‘Tuesday, In "Rigoletto" Verdi reached the venith of his career, ‘The story concerns the gay Duke of Mantua (Mr. A. Ripley), whose life is one long adventure with pretty women. His hunchback jester, Rigoletto (Mr. W. Brough) aids and abets him, to the disgust of others in the court. Unknown to the Duke, Rigoletto has a pretty daughter, Gilda (Mrs. J. Parry), whom he keeps in hiding from the Duke. But they meet, aud Rigoletto, not knowing that it is his own dauchter, becomes a party to a scheme to abduct the pretty girl to the Duke’s quarters. He discovers the plot too late, and vows revenge on the Duke. He seeks a hired assassin, Sparafucile (Mr. M. Ballance), who agrees to murder the man who calls and asks for his sister, Maddalena (Madame Ainsley) that night. Rigoletto induces MaddaJena to entice the ever amorous Duke to her house that night. Gilda overhears the plot and resolves to save her ducal lover. Maddalena also would save him, Gilda, dressed as a page, presents herself at the door and is stabbed by Sparafucile; he has been paid to kill a man wlio calls to see is sister. he body is sewn in a sack and taken to the riverbank, by Rigoletto. Hearing the Duke singing a lovesong in the distance, Rigoletto ‘euts open the sack and finds Gilda, expiring. He collapses on the body. In the first portion of the programme, which will be of a miscellaneous character, Madame Irene Ainsley will be heard in ‘‘Softly Awakes my Heart" and "Atsent,’ two songs in which her beautiful contralto voice will be displayed te advantage. Mr. Walter Brough will be singing the stirring "Border Baliad." The song which Mr. Arthur Ripley will sing on Tuesday evening ‘at IVA, "Like a Dream" (from Flotew’s ‘‘Martha’’) is believed to be the last air in which Caruso let his voice be heard.

Mr. T. Bloodworth, a name _ well known in Labour circles, will give a talk at IYA on Tuesday on the work of the International Labour Office at Geneva, under the auspices of the League of Nations. The concert of the Auckland Municipal Band in Albert Park will be relayed by 1YA on Wednesday. Interspersed between the band items will be the vocal contributions of the Hazell-Sutherland Duo. ast will sing two solos, and there will be two duets, one of them being Tosti’s ‘‘Parted." Mr. F. B. Powell will give one ot his instructive talks to farmers when he speaks from 1YA on "‘Concrete and its uses,’’ on Wednesday evening. A further talk on ‘‘Physical Culture" will be given by Mr. Norman Kerr, of the Garryowen Institute, at LYA on Wednesday evening. These lectures should prove of great service to listeners. : The Premiere Quartet {Miss Mina Caldow, Miss C. Ormiston, Mr. Barry Coney and Mr. B. O'Malley) will provide the concert on Thursday at 1YA, Two concerted pieces that are sure to be delightful will be ‘‘The Bells of St. Michael’s Tower’ and the "Spin: ning Chorus" (from ‘"Martha’’). Each member of the quartet will also sing solos, and the Bosworth Hemus-Towsey Trio will play selec tions from Saint Saens and Tschaikowsky. Miss Lalla Hemus, ’cellist, will render a sixteenth century aria. Jazz medieys and popular selections will be played by Mrs. Hugh Morton, pianiste,

eer: 2a ~~ An interesting literary talk will be | given. by Mr. Culford Bell on Thursday evening, when he will speak on "Great Authors.’’ Breton Foik Songs will be sung at IVA on Friday evening by the Waiata Quartet. In all, three quartets and a trio of these pretty melodies will be rendered. ‘The members of the quar-tet-Madame C. Towsey, Miss Lola Solomon, Mr. Jas. Simpson and Mr, John Bree-will all sing solos. The Snappy Three have a very attractive’ quartet of items for 1YA on Friday evening. They are all of the popular type. For Mr. J. F. Montague’s two appearances at the microphone at 1YA on Friday three items of most diverse character have been chosen, The first will be, ‘"‘The Impeach ment of Warren Hastings’? (by Macaulay), and then will follow "A Denominational Garden’? and a Dickens’ sketch, "Montague Tigg."’ These three items will indicate the versatility of the Auckland elocutionist, Sciectionus from Schubert and Schumann will be played by the Bosworth-Hemus-Towsey Trio at 1YA on Friday. The Lyric Quartet (Messrs. McElwain, Thomas, Richards and Ripley), reinforced by the Pali Duo, who play popular selections and Hawaiian melodies, will provide the studio concert at 1YA on Friday until such time as the dance music from Dixieland is relayed. A special studio concert will be broadcast from 1YA on Sunday evening, after the relay of the service from the Church of Christ. ‘This concert will be provided hy the St. Andrew’s Quartet, and by the Bosworth-Hemms-Towsey Trio