2YA NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 22 June 1928, Page 7

2YA NOTES

pute Orpheus Quartet will, on Tuesday, June 26, present the quartets "O, Peaceful Night," "The Boat Soug," and the old English number "The Bells of St. Michael’s Tower." With Mr. Len Barnes as soloist, the quartet will siing, "Down by Dat Ribber." Mrs. Alice Harris will sing "Iierce Flames are Roaring" (from "I] Trovatore’),

Miss Lily Mackie "Mountain Lovers," and Mr. Arthur Coe "The = Sailor’s Grave." Mr. Len Barnes is singing the famous aria from "Acis and Galatea’ (by Handel), "O, Ruddier Than the Cherry," in which the giant Polyphemus sings of his love for Galatea, "The Midnight Review," by Glinka (this poem is based on the legend that at midnight on the field of Waterloo the ghost of Napoleon arises and views his troops as they march past) ; and "Ethiopia Saluting the Colours," by Charles Wood, an incident in the American Civil War. Mr. Cedric Gardiner will supply the humorous element of a very attractive programme. N Thursday the Warblers’ Male Voice Quartet will again broadeast from 2YA. Included in their numbers will be that evergreen song, "The Rosary," arranged as a quartet. A new march song, "When All the World’s at Peace," should find immense favour with its stirring refrain. Mr. W. 1. Elliott is soloist in this number. Another song which should prove equally popular is "Sweet Miss Mary," in which Mr. Stewart Nelson will take the solo part. Mr. Stewart Nelson, tenor, has chosen for his solo number "She is Far From the Land." With his sweet lyric tenor he should give a good account of himself in this beautiful song. .Mr, Ernest Elliott, tenor, has chosen the new popular song, "My Maori Maiden," by Jack Taumsdaine, the radio artist. Myr. Elliott’s voice inraviably pleases in this type of song. Mr. Harry Matthew, baritone, will render Erie Coates’s benutiful number, "I Heard You Singing." Mr. Thomas C. Wood (bass) will give Herman Lohr’s new soug, "Flower of the Desert," and Allitsen’s "The Lute Player." These are two really beautiful numbers, and Mr. Wood is sure to please with his interrvetations. Two delightful quartets are scheduled by the Apollo Singers for their concert at 2Y.A on Friday. These are "As the Swallows Hlomeward Fly" and "Allan Water." Iiqual taste is manifest in the selection of their solo numbers. "After the Lonely Day" and "Silver Ring" will be sung by Miss If Chudley; Miss M. Goodwill is singing "Believe Me If All Those Fudearing Young Charms’; Mr. FE. W. Robbins will be heard in Alfred ITYill's everpopular "Waiata Poi" and "QO, the Month of May," by Quilter, and Mr. 8. I. Rodger will contribute "The Sweet- est Flower That Blows" and ‘The Tink Divine," with first and second violin aecompaniment, The Two Boiled Owls will supply their regular guota of humour, and, taken altogether, a delightful evening’s entertainment is assured, ON Saturday the Melodie Four Male Quartet will again provide the majority of the vocal items at 2YA, The concerted numbers will inelude a

harmonious arrangement of "Stars of the Summer Night," "In Absence," and the quartet’s original arrangement of "Baby’s Feet Go Pit-a-pat," the lastnamed number being repeated in response to numerous requests. Mr. W. W. Marshall (bass) will sing the stirring Scottish ballad "Wi’ a Hundred Pipers and A’," a song which suits his resonant voice to perfection. Mr. IF. Bryant (tenor) will be heard in "A Song and a Dream," and Messrs. Duncan and Allwright will each render a solo. Listeners-in may therefore expect an excellent assortment of vocal items on this occasion. Mr. George Titchener, a breezy comedian with a style of his own, and Mr. Lad Haywood, an expert mandolinist, are also scheduled on Saturday evening. ON Sunday, July 1, the recital of the Wellington Municipal Tramways’ Band will be broadeast from His Majesty’s Theatre,