1YA'S ORCHESTRA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 29 June 1928, Page 5

1YA'S ORCHESTRA

UNEXPECTED DIFFICULTIES AUCKLAND listeners wili have to wait a little longer for the promised orchestra at 1YA, Im connection with this, Mr. A. B, Harris, general manager of the Broadcasting Company, advises tis as follows:-: "Kor some weeks now the Broadeasting Company has been endeavour ing to organise an orchestra of the calibre recently Introduced at station ‘2YA, Wellington, but has met with unexpected and unprecedented difliculties in securing the desired talent for a complete orchestra, such as is iutended for 1¥A. "Phe gervice expected of a broadeasting orchestra, while less strenuous than required Zor n theatre orchestra, makes it necessary that.every instrumeutalist should be an artist of the highest accomplishment. Several new works are required to be performed every evening, and the instrumentalists must be capable of playing at sight the most difficult items with practically one hundred per cent. technique from the average listeners’ point of view. Furthermore, & maximum of four nights per week is the most that can be offered, and as those instrumentalists the company re~ quires are much sought after, the com pany has not only to compete in & limited field, but has also to compete against the six-day weekly engagements. "Inder the circumstances the Broadeasting Company has not been able, for the time being, to give effect to its intentions in regard to an Al orchestra for 1YA, but listeners can pe assured that the proposal will not be lost sight of In the meantime, the present trio will be augmented with further instruments, and the quality of programmes maintained af the highest possible standard commensurate with the income." |