2YA ATTRACTIONS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 48, 15 June 1928, Page 7

2YA ATTRACTIONS

JUISCELLANEOUS as it is in character, the programme to be pre-) sented by the Ariel Singers at 2YA on Monday will include, among other things, three more of the popular "Sei Chanties" and Gounod’s "Serenade" (with violin obbligato); also a great tenor and bass duet, "The Outpost Vigil." The vocalists will be Madame ‘Emily Briggs, Miss Ngaire Coster, Mr. J, M. Caldwell, and Mr. Roy Hill. At the Ariel Singers’ next radio recital on June 25, they will, in conjunction with the Symons-Ill-woed-Short Trio, specially feature works by a well-known local composer, Mr. Claude M. Haydon, Mus. Bac., of Lower Hutt. ON Monday evening Mr. A. Stanley Warwick will be heard in one of the most beautiful monologues that has ever been written, "The Selfish Giant." The words are by Oscar Wilde, and the musie by Liza Lehmann, The pianoforte part will be played by Mr. Gordon Short. The monologue takes over thirteen minutes to perform, and is a really splendid example of words besaid

ing wed to music, ranking only next to the finest example of this class of work-viz,, ‘Mendelssohn’s wonderful music to "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." "fhe Symons-Ellwood-Short Trio and the Studio Orchestra will also contribute to the programme. ON Tuesday the Orpheus Quartet will sing the song cycle, "The Mouatebanks," by Easthope Martin. This work was unavoidably postponed from May 29, The wandering minstrels come to the "Barleymow Inn," and mine host offers them bread and board if they in their turn. will ply their art before the company. The cycle goes on to describe the items by the mountebanks. MONG the items to be played by the orchestra on Tuesday evening will be the famous "Nutcracker Suite." Request numbers and the latest dance novelties ave also on their programme. On the vocal side of the evening’s entertainment, in addition to "The Mountebanks," many good items will be given. Mr. Len. Barnes will sing "The Prologue" from "I Pagliacci," also "The Requiem," written by Mr. R. A. Horne, of Christchurch. Mrs. Alice Harris will sing "Angus MacDonald," and Miss Lily Mackie, "Here in. the Quiet Hills," from the comic opera. "Doris," by Cellier. Mr. Arthur Coe has selected "So Fare Thee Well." A duet, "A Summer's Night," by Goring Thomas, will be sung by Miss Lily Mackie and Mr. Len Barnes. Mrs. M. Thomas will present humorous elocutionary numbers, and there will also be a short organ recital by Mr. Hi. Temple White, proadeast on relay from Taranaki Street Methodist Church. TIE programme to be submitted by the popylar Lyric Quartet on Thursday, is one marked by great yariety, and extends from favourite operatic uumbers to simple nursery rhymes. The concerted numbers to be rendered by the quartet will include the melodious Irish folk song, "Oft in the Stilly Night," and the old English nelody, "In the Gloaniing." Then there is the nursery story concerning Doctor Foster. The solo items will be sure to please, for Mr. Will Goudie’ will ren-| der in rousing style that popular number from Bizet's opera "Carmen," "The Song of the Toreador." In contrast to this, the tenor voice of Mr. Charles Williams will be heard to advantage in that beautiful song of ColeridgeTaylor, ‘Eleanor," and the deep bass yoice of Mr. W. Binet Brown is emin-

ently suited to "Beloved, Awake." Al duet will alse be rendered entitled "The Loyers." Listeners are assured that the vocal porticn of this programme will be guite up to the high standard always attained by the Lyric Quartet. RONNIE and Monty, &@ comedy duo, will be on the bill in two items. "Where Does the Candlelight Go?" and "Heaven." The second is an original composition and is not suggested as being the sequel to the first. Iii instrumental musie of Thursday's programme will be supplied by the Wellington Municipal Tramrays Band, under the able conductorship of Mr. f. Goodall, Mr. Goodall will be heard in one of his finished cornet solos, and Bandsman Ballantyne is scheduled for a trombone solo, N Friday, June 2 22, the Etude Quartet will share in a varied programme. Their own numbers will include selections from grand opera,

EEE a EAE ELE BS Eo PERE Be musical comedy and some popular ballads. From "The Runaway Girl" will be sung the trio, "We Ilave Left Pursuit Behind Us." There is also the old-time favourite, "Sweet and Low" and a fox-trot, "The Dancing Tambourine," arranged for the quartet hy Mr. Len Barnes. . Mr. Frank Skinner will sing "The Song" from: "Carmen." Carmen threw a rose at Don Jose’s feet, which flower he cherished even in the prison cell, where he! is thrown for having deserted the army | for Carmen. She falls in love with Escamillo, but in this song Don Jose tells of his love for Carmen, showing her the flower she threw to him. Mr. Ray Kemp sings the old favourite, "The Yeoman's W edding Son,g" and "Ma Little Banjo." Tosti’s "Serenata" and "The Cuckoo," by Martin Shaw, will be sung by Miss Gretta Stark, and Miss Rita Arnold will give "Fusheen," a beautiful lullaby. Other contributors to the evening's entertainment will be the Two Boiled Owls. Mrs. Kenny’s Mandolin Band, the Studio Orchestra and the Symons-Ellwood-Short Trio.

TOR Saturday night's programme at ®YA the Melodie Four will present a number of concerted items from their extensive repertoire. Among the quartets which will be sung on this date is the humorous "Goslings," which tells the story of the sad fate which befel two little goslings. "Little Tommy Went a'Fishing" and "Stars of the Summer Night’ will also be sung on this oceasion. The solo items include "Cod Bless rhe Prince of Wales" and "Give a Man u Horse He Can

eS Bo ee Be es BEE EES PEERS Ride." Mr. Lad Haywood with his Italian mandolin, and the Glad Idlers, with their light vocal numbers, will also entertain, while the Studio Orchestra will play selections and danre music.