SHAKESPEARE AT 2YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 40, 20 April 1928, Page 7

SHAKESPEARE AT 2YA

Combining with Mr. Byron Brown, the producer of the dramatic portion of the entertainment, will be the Ariel Singers, who will be responsible for the vocal section of the musical programme. The great dramatist’s poems have nearly all been used as song lyrics by some of the world’s greatest musicians, thus helping to prove the old dictum that poets combine the arts of the painter, the historian, and the musician. On this occasion, some of the lesser known numbers will be presented, with a view to increasing their popularity. Composers such as Sir Henry Bishop and Roger Quilter, both famous for their Shakespearean works, afford a good example of old and new treatments of familiar words, whilst the duet arrangement of ‘‘Orpheus with his Lute,’"? by Charles Wood, Professor of Music at Oxford University, is a thing of beauty, well worth hearing. Three verv fine quartets will be sung by the Orpheus Quartet on Tuesday"Long Ago," "It was a Lover and his

Yass," and "The Lark now Leaves his Watery Nest." Miss Lily Mackie will sing Schubert’s fine "Evening Boat Song’; and Mrs. Alice Harris the wonderful aria from ‘‘Madame Butterfly,’ "One Vine Day." With Mr. Arthur Coe, she will sing ‘The Night Hymn at Sea," and Mr. Arthur Coe will sing "Farewell to Summer." Associated with the quartet will be Mr. Lad Haywood, with his Italian mandolin, and Mr. Stanley Warwick, eloeutionist, while there will also be a short organ recital by Mr. H. Temple White. On Wednesday station 2YA will be ‘fon the air’ to broadcast on relay the Anzac Day Memorial Service, The service will be held at the Town Hall, and will com: mence at 3 p.m. The quartets to be sung by the Clarion quartet on Thursday are "Winter Song" (by Bullard), and a fox trot, "Icky Day,’ arranged by Mr. Len Barnes. There will be the well-known trio, ‘I‘arewell" (by Silcher). Mr, Will Hancock sings, "I’ll sing to you,’"’ and, with the quartet, "The Young Recruit," which is a fine marching song. Mr. Ray Kemp will sing ‘"Ijleanore"’? and "Song of the North Wind." Mr, Frank Skinner’s numbers will be a new arrangement of "Who is Sylvia?", and the ever popular "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes.’ The instrumental music will be*proyided by the Municipal Tramways’ Band, under the baton of Mr. T. Goodall. Miss Violet Wilson, a young elocutioniste, will also contribute to the progranimne. The histrionic portion of the evening will be particularly strong, the clocutionists being Mr. Byron Brown, Miss I). Vautier, Mr. J. Watchman, Mr. Barton Ginger, Mrs. Martyn Williams, Mrs, Burgess, Mrs. Theo. Hills, and Mr. S. ‘fingey. Jt will be the strongest combination of clocutionists who haye yet appeared on one night at 2YA. Between the singers, the elocutionists, and the instrumetitalists, listeners will be able to sample all the chief plays of Shakespeare and will derive an appreciation of the works of the great dramatist such as many . have never enjoyed before. In Mr. Byron Brown, a great authority on Shakespeare will come to the micropliune, and he can be relied upon ‘to give a delightful lecture on "‘Shakespeare and St. George,’’ both of whose days fall on April 23. | One of the most striking scenes will. be the Quarrel. Scene between Brutus | and Cassius, as enacted by Mr. Byron Brown aud Mr. Barton Ginger. Another of a different type will be ‘Rosalind’s Banter of Her Lover, Orlando,’’ by Mrs. Burgess and Mr. Byron Brown. Listeners will also hear Portia’s noble pleading in "The Merchant of Venice," Mark Antony’s oration over the body of Julius Caesar, Queen Margaret’s scorn of the Duke of York, Queen Katherine’s defence, and the merriment and wisdom of tle first grave digger in "Hamlet."