2YA NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 36, 23 March 1928, Page 5

2YA NOTES

é The Eiude Quartet, Mr. Stanley Warwick, the Studio Trio, Miss Ava Symons and Mr. Iy. W. Rothwell, are the artists for Monday’s programime at 2YA. It will be a well varied entertainment. The concerted items by the quartet will be yery bright, including as they do ‘‘Mayday" (by Muller), a fox-trot number, "Under the Moon," which has been arranged by Mr. Ten Barnes, and that popular plantation song, "Old Black Joe," in which the baritone solo portion will be sung by Mr. Ray Kemp. An old Irish folk song will be sung by Miss Greta Stark, "All Round My WHat," "My Dear Soul" will be sung by Miss Rita Arnold, and Mr. Frank Skinner will sing "A Spirit lower’? ;

The elocutionary items, which are to be given by Mr. Stanley Warwick on Monday evening, will be ‘‘The Duet," and a sketch, "The Monkey’s Paw." Supplementing the Orpheus Quartet ou Monday evening will be the Studio ‘Trio, Mr. Lad Haywood (whose Italian mandolin items are always so popular), Miss Effie Brice (elocutionist), and Mr. A. H. Wright (saxophone). Operatic and humorous numbers will be sung by the Orpheus Quartet on Tuesday, when a varied programme will be broadcast. The quartets are, "The ‘Torpedo and the Whale" and "We've Flowers for You," by May Brahe, a number breathing ali the beauty of summer. Mrs. Alice Harris and Mr. Len Barnes will sing the duet "A.B.C.," by Parry--a conversation hetween a foreigner trying to learn English and his teacher. Mrs. Harris will sing ‘‘The King of Thule" (from Gounod’s "I'aust"), and Mr. Len Barnes will sing the famous ‘Toreador Song" (from ‘‘Carmen’"’). Miss Lily Mackie’s contributions are "‘O Peaceful Iingland," from ‘Merrie England," with quartet chorus, and also "A Song at Sunset.’ -_Mr. Arthur Coe will sing Schubert’s famous song, ‘Who is Sylvia?" A well assorted programme will be played by the Municipal Tram: ways Band on Thursday evening, and the Clarion Quartet of male voices will render some of their best. ‘This evening there will ‘also be a lady vocalist, Miss Ailsa Nicol, mezzo-soprano, Among the quartets on ‘Thursday will be the old favourite, ‘Dic Lorelei," and a fox-trot number by Visher, arranged by Mr. Len Barnes, ‘Fifty Million Frenchmen.’’ Mr. James Cook will sing anvther rollicking mumber, "A Jolly Ol Cavalier,’"? and Mr. Ray Kemp will give "King Charles’? with _ its pathos and patriotism. Mr. Will Han., cock will sing "Country Folk" and "Where the River Shannon Tlows,’’ and Mr, Trank Skinner, a beautiful Seottish number, "My Mary, Sweet and Brown." The duet from "Ta Boheme,’’ by Puccini, "Lickle Iearted Mimi," will be given by Messrs. Kemp and Skinner. In this item the poet and the artist bewail the fact that Mimi has so soon forgotten her lover. Two very pretty quartets are to he sung by the Apollo Quartet on Friday evening. Oue is that popular cradle

Se as a =) song, "O Hush thee, my Baby,’’ and "A Night of Love,’’ a very pretty waltz. Miss Hilda Chudley will sing "Bring her again, O Western Wind," Quilter’s britliant composition on the western wind. Mr KE. W. Robbins has selected his solos from the ever popular Tudian Love Lyrics of Woodford-Fin-den, while Mr. S. E. Lodger will sing "The Cerpocals Ditty,’? Squire’s breezy song of a soldier whe was Iucky in war but not in love, On Friday's programme at 2¥A, apart front the Apollo Quartet, contributing artists wilf be the Studio Trio, Messrs. Berthold and Bent ~ (the Hawaiian Duo), and the Two Boiled Owls, one of whose items will be an original one entitled 2 B.A.D." Miss Moana Goodwill, the soprane of the Apollo Quartet, is another of the brilliant group of pupils of Mr. H. Temple White, of whom Miss Myra Sawyer and Messrs. Frank Bryant, Samuel Duncan and Williant Boardman are now so well known to listeners. Miss Goodwill has a charming, fresh, musical yoice, and she is in con stant demand for musicales and concert work. As art elocutionist, too, she has quite q reputation, so that listeners will welcome the inclusion

0 aaa = in the programmes of so versatile an artist. There is no gainsaying the fact that the Saturday night programmes broadcast from the studio of YA are greatly enhanced by the items which are presented by the popular ‘Melodie Four" Male Quartet, and on March $1 listen-ers-in will have another opportunity of hearing this versatile combisation. A duet from Verdi’s opera, "La Fotza del Destino," "Solenne In Juest Ora’"’ will be sung by Messrs. S. Duncan and R. S. Allwright, and the other concerted numbers will include "The Birth of the Blues" and the quartet’s original atrangement of ‘Drifting and Dreaming,’ which is being repeated in response to numerous requests. Mr. S. Duncan (tenor) will be heard in ‘I Hear you Calling Me," and Mr, F. Bryant (tenor) will sing a bracket of two songs, "Only the River Ruuning by’? and ‘Thoughts,’ Mr. W. W. Marsitall (basso) will render Dix’s rollicking song, ‘‘The Miller of Winchelsea," and Mr. R. S. Allwright (baritone) will present two delightiul songs entitled ‘‘*Two Songs for My Lady," by Foster. This is the first time these songs have been broadcast in the Domi: ion,