2YA NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 33, 2 March 1928, Page 5

2YA NOTES

There is a lot of good material used in the building up of the programune for .Monday evening at 8YA. The Celeste Quartet, in solo, duet and concerted items, will present some of the best of their repertoire. This. evening also Mr. Stanley Warwick, the weilknown elocutionist, is appearing in two items, one by Jerome, ‘Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture,’ and the other also a humorous.one, "Spring."? Mr. .H. Montgomery is down for two vocal entertainments, while the instrumental trio and Berthold and Bent will supply music of two distinct elasses. On Monday evening Professor T. A. Huuter, of Victoria University, will give a lecture on "The Mind of the Man." The Orpheus Quartet on ‘Tuesday, March 6, will present two quartettes"All in a Garden Fair," which is an arrangement of a madrigal written in 1565, and "Bovine Barcarolle,’’ a humorous number of topical allusions. Miss Alice Harris sings ‘‘Love is Life" from the ‘‘Maid of the Mountains,’ and with Mr. Len Barnes the humorous duet ‘Husbands and Wives" from the saine musical comedy. Miss Lily Mackie will present on Tuesday a new song by Dr. Hardelot, the writer of so many popular numbers, ‘"‘Dreams of the Dusk,’ and with the quartette chorus, the old Minstrel song, ‘I Want to See The Old Home." Mr. Arthur Coe sings two numbers, "To Mary’" and "A Farewell.’ A very dramatic number, "Mine Enemy,’’ by Olga Radd, will be given wy m:. wen Barnes. The perpetrations of the combination known as the Mellow Fellows continue unchecked from 2¥A, and their ‘‘goin’s- | on" ramble with a delightful inconse--quence from the sublime to the ridiculous. They state frankly that they are personally more at home in | the latter class. But nonsense, if it is" clever nonsense, or is well done, is. always enjoyable, and if the actor gains the approbation of his audience-visible or invisible-and what is a truer test, satisfies himself, then he has not disgraced his calling. The fare which the ‘‘Mellow Fellows" are providing is palatable; nay, more, it is good, if only to tickle the ear, and in some patt of the menu is a dish to ‘suit each taste. The "Old English" programme to be presented by the Ariel Singers on Friday, March 9, promises a wealth of popular items. Such songs as ‘The Lass of Richmond Hill,’ "Sigh No More, Ivadies," and "arly One Morning," will never sink into obscurity, and many doubt whether melodies of such rare lyric beauty will ever be surpassed. Four old English composers whose works are known and loved by musicians the world over, are Thomas Morley (1595), Henry Purcell (1658), Thomas Arne (1710), and Sir Henty Bishop (1786), each of whom will be represented on Friday evening’s pro gramme. Ljisteners-in who find musical reflex in the flowing harmonies of their Mother Country may rest assured that the latter will lose nothing of their beauty at the hands of the Ariel Singers, who present gilees, folk songs, madrigals, traditional songs, and. ballads with unvarying musical taste and understanding. Prior to the relay of datice music from the Columbian Cabaret, Kilbirnie, an hour’s entertainment of the usual ome

bright Saturday: song nature will Ff . broadcast from 2YA. Vocal items wy the Melodie Quartet (sole and concerted), with piano capets by Mr. James Skeddon, and selections by the instrumental trio, will constitute the programme, | On. Sunday listeners ate again to be favoured by a varied! and attractive programme by the William Renshaw Quartet, a feature of which will be soure of the real favourites of years ago, whictwill doubtless bring back memories to large numbers of radio enthusiasts. The } simplicity of this programme will make its inevitable appeal. Probably the. best known of these- will be our old favourite, "Home, Sweet Home," to be rendered by Mrs. Amy Dunn.

At Sunday evening’s concert Mr. William Davies will undoubtedly please with his rendition of ‘‘Nir« vana,"’ whiie Miss Nora Greene and Mr. William Renshaw will sing that charming duet, ‘For All Eternity’’ in their own inimitable style. Their solo items will include Sullivan’s "Golden Days," to be sung by the former, and the old Irish traditional air, ‘Believe Me, if All those En. dearing Young Charms,’’ by the later.

The compositions by Dvorak (born 1841), one of Bohemia’s foremost composers, have gained a world-wide popularity. His Slavonic dances have achieved for him a parallel fame with the Elungarian dances by Bralims. Two choral works which have lelped to make his name widely known are the "Stabat Mater’ and ‘Ihe Spectre’s Bride," both of which are much beloved by the British-speaking musical public. His ‘New World’ Symphony, written during his sojourn in America, and into which he introduced characteristics, real or imaginary, of negro music, has become almost a popular symphony. His works written in chamber music form are amongst the most brilliant efforts in this field of composition and show an unusually dazzling genius for tonal effects. ‘The "Dumky" trio to be played this week by the Symons-Hllwod-Short ‘Trio is the best known of his trios and is thoroughly representative of his gift of melody and his sense of rich tonal colouring. It consists of a series of moveinents linked together by an underlying current of sadness, although periods of wild exultation are interspersed between them, The work suggests a collection of folk songs and dances. It is music which makes a strong appeal to any ear capable of enjoying the rhythm and melody of the Hungarian, dances by Brahmg.

‘ Another trio to be. performed will be one in E Flat by Schubert. Although not so widely popular as the one in B flat, this trio contains much of the lovely Schubertian type of melody, which has earned for him the name of the ‘‘Prince of Melodists." Such works as the Dvorak and Schu- | bert trios belong as much to the world of light musie as classical music by reason of their pure tuneful}mess, strong rhythmic appeal, and clearness of thought.