LIEDER EVENING AT 2YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 41, 27 April 1928, Page 7

LIEDER EVENING AT 2YA

On Monday, April 30, a unique programone of vocal music will be presented at 2YA by the Aerial Singers, who will draw only upon acknowledged lieder : writers fer their items (Beethoven, . Bralims, Greig, Schubert, Schumann, etc.). As this will be the first occasion in New Zealand on which such a radio. programme has been heard, it should be : eagerly looked forward to by those. listeners-in who Jove the works of the old masters. Apart from the composers mientioned above, songs by Hugo Wolf, .

won Sn 0 OE Robert Franz, Adolf Jensen, and Joachim Raff, will also be heard. Whilst refraining from dealing with the programnie in detail, special attention is drawn to the Brahnis Op. 52 ‘‘Liebeslieder"? cycle with pianoforte duet accompaniment, two extracts from which cycle will be heard ‘ton the air’ in New "Zealand for the first time, as, indeed, will many of the solo numbers to be rendered by the Aerial Singers on Monday. These performers are only too pleased, from time to time, to acknowledge criticisms, suggestions, or requests as to their work (postal address, care Radio Broadcasting Co., Ltd., Wellington). Mayday is being celebrated by the Orpheus Quartet with the singing of "Wake with a Smile, O Month of May," from the "May Queen," by Sterndale Bennett, while Miss Lily Mackie and Mr, Len Batnes will sing the duet from ‘‘Merzie England’'-"It is the Merry Month of May." Other quartets are ""A Song of the Sea" and the old Iinglish number ‘‘Golden Slumbers." Mr. Len Barnes will sing "At Night" (by Rachmaninoff), "My. i pe oe ee oe eee OF

eB ene.) ener" PN \P Serene Be erat \D raenel™ BS Menagerie," by Fay Foster (a child’s imagination of the animals to be seen in the clouds), and ‘Quand La Flanme,’* from "The Tair Maid of Perth,’ by Bizet. Mrs. Alice Harris will sing ‘‘'Awake," Mr. Arthur Coe "Sometimes in My Dreams,’’ and Miss wily Mackie "Pool of Quietness" and "Morning Song." Mr. Lad Haywood, and his Italian rmandoline, Mr. George Tillwood and his | ’cello, and the Studio Trio will supply the instrumental music on Tuesday. Mr. Doug. Stark will dispense Scottish humour on Monday evening in "The Boss o’ the Hoose," and will he heard in the monologue "I Forget," being the reminiscences of an old soldier. There will also be some humorous cross-talk with Mr. Len Barnes. The Apollo Singers have arranged a fall programme for the evening of Friday, the 4th instant. Two very delightful quartets are included "In This_ Hour," by Pinsuti, and, in response to many requests, "A Night of Love,’’ in which these singers have been heard to advantage from 2YA before. Miss M. Goodwill has chosen a popular song, "Dream a Day Jill," while Miss H. Chudley will be heard in ‘‘Let Miss Lindy Pass," by L. Ronald and "Fuchsia ‘'ree,"’ two tuneful numbers. Mr E. W. Robbins is scheduled for three vocal gems, "Love, Could I Only Tell Thee,’ ‘Because,’ aud the ever-popular "Waiata Poi.’ A beautiful Irish melody by Lambert, ‘‘She is Far From the Land," will be contributed by Mr. S. EE. Rodger, and the same singer, with Mr Robbins, will be heard in ‘The Two Beggars,’? a duet for tenor and baritone. Those entertaining characters, the Two Boiled Owls, will give ‘More Hoots" atid other items at 2YA on Friday. A number of old favourites will be sung by the Melodie Four during the studio portion of the programme on Saturday evening. Banjo and trio items will supplement. Afterwards will folJow a dance progranime,