MUSIC AND DRAMA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 47, 8 June 1928, Page 4

MUSIC AND DRAMA

2YA COMMITTEE MEETING A MEETING of the Honorary Musical and Dramatic Committee of 2YA was held at the studio on Monday evening. Mr. Harison Cook (National Repertory Society) presided, and there were also present: Messrs. A. Stanley Warwick (Orphans’ Club), J. Carr (Charley’s Aunt Club), R. Lyon (Sayage Club), W, E. Caldow (Royal Wellington Choral Society), I. Levy ("Dominion"’), G, LL, Giesen (Hutt Valley Choral Society), V, R. Bennett. (Harmonic Society), and the company’s of- | ficial representatives. Apologies for unavoidable absence were received from Messrs. E. Palliser, H. Temple White (Commercial Travellers’ Choir), Len. Barnes (Orpheus Society) ,- Campbell (Wellington Competitions Society), An hour was spent in a pyrofitable discussion of ways and means whereby the committee could best further the interests of the musical and dramatic arts, and also the aims and objects of the various organisations represented on the committee. Several valuable suggestions relative to broadcast programmes were put forward and discussed, and it was decided to formally recommend that a "literary evening" should be scheduled for, say, once a month. In this connection a suggestion made by Mr. Levy met with unanimous approval, i.e., that while it was eminently desirable that time should be given to broadeasting excerpts from the works of the great masters of literature, it was also important that the essential feature of variety should be carefully preserved. It was agreed that to this end a "literary evening" should mean not the allocation of an entire programmie to, say, the works of Dickens or Shakespeare, but at the most two quarter-hour séctions (one in each half of the programme) for the literary feature, and the balance of the programme to be of a2 voeal and instrumental character. As the outcome of a suggestion made by Mr. G. L. Giesen, it was resolved that efforts should be made to secure the broadeasting, either from the studio or on relay from their actual performances, of portions of the works of the various choral societies. Here, again, it was deemed inadvisable to recommend that an entire evening should be devoted to any one particular class of music, and the representatives explained. that it would be quite practicable to meet the wish of the committee by relaying selected portions of a choral eonecert in conjunction with a studio programme. Members of the committee were cordially invited to attend the studio concerts at their convenience.