3YA ATTRACTIONS

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

3YA ATTRACTIONS

Much is always expected of the Beckenham Male Quartet, and _listeners-in are never disappointed. The Beckenhams introduce a freshness, a homeliness, and an originality that never fail to take the popular fancy. Next Monday these singers along with the Christchurch Municipal Band, Mrs, Leslie Scrimshaw, and Mr. J. Darragh, will provide one of the most enjoyable concerts of the week. The band items will be bright and varied, as is usual. Mrs. Leslie Scrimshaw, a _ well-. known performer for SYA, will be sing-. ing again on Monday. One of her items will be ‘‘Solveig’s Song," from ‘‘Peer Gyn " Idlocutionary items by Mr. J, Darragh on Monday evening will include "Guy de Vere Attempts a Toast,’’ and one entitled "When ‘Tosti Raised his Bowler Hat," evidently having regard to his immortal ‘‘Goodbye."’ Wednesday’s concert at 3YA will be an Irish one, real Irish from beginning to end. Listeners will be taken all round the Ijmerald Isle in the course

another of the series of travelogues by 7 Mr. A. G. Thompson’s Dulcet Quartet. The vocalists will be Miss Nellie Lowe, Miss Mary Shaw, Mr. T. G. Rogers, and Mr. A. G. Thompson. Irish airs j will be played by the Studio Trio, Mr. R, Ohlson (cornet), and by Mr. Ivan Perrin on the piano (the last-mention-ed being, of course, this artist’s clever, extemporisations). Irish humour by Mr. H. Instone will complete the Hibernian night’s entertainment. A yery attractive feature of the entertainment will be that every item (except probaby the laumorous portion) will be well known and loved by all. fe a descriptive dialogue, for this is A French entertainment will be provided by the Madame Gower.Burns Grand Opera Quartet on Thursday evening, when the works of well-known French composers will be broadcast. Among the songs to be sung will be selections from Cesar Franck, Massenet, Messager, Chaminale, and Godard, Some of these songs are well known, especially the charming works of Chaminade.

Augmenting the vocal programme on Thursday will be instrumental selectious by the Studio Trio, Mr. W. Hay (flute), and Miss Aileen Warren (pianoforte), while elocutionary items will be given by Miss Maiona Juriss, all going to make an excellent I'rench evening. A programme of the delightful. songs of Robert Franz will be presented on Friday evening by Miss Frances Hamerton’s Metodious Four. Next to Schubert, Robert Franz is undoubtedly the most original of Gers man song writers Unlike Schubert, he was a specialist, confining himself almost entirely to the field of art songs, of which he wrote two hundred and seventy-nine. These short songs represent, however, "multum in parvo.’ As he himself once remarked, they are "like a mirror reflecting the development of music from A to Z." By this simple strophic structure they remind one of the early folk song. Many of them are as stately and majestic as the Protestant chorals of the time from Luther to Bach. His songs are a happy blending of the romantic spirit and the classical style, of the modern declamae tory style, and a genuine bel canto. Supportong the Melodious Four in what will be a splendid programme, will be the Studio Trio, Miss Elaine Moody’s Hawaiian Trio, Mr. George Beunet, and Mrs Beryl Windsor.

Mrs. Beryl Windsor, who is to give elocutionary "tems on Friday evening at 3YA, comes from Ross, on the West Coast, where she takes a leading part in all entertainments. She was at one time resident on Christchurch, and wag a pupil of Miss Lucy Cowan. New artists will appear in Satute day’s radio vaudeville, and will provide one of the orightest week-end concerts, A glance down the pros gramme shows Rollicking Bobby, Mr. S. E. Munday (clarinet), Mr. A. E. Dowell (popular singer of popu. lar songs), Mr. Verner Lawford (magic flute end phono fiddle solos), Miss Constance Flamank (a firsts class contralto singer from Timaru), the Studio Trio, Misses Muriet Joins, and Edua Jofinston, Theo and Francis Gunther (concerlinas), and Mr. Hiram Dunford, in humors eus recitations,