Notes from 2YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 6, 24 August 1928, Page 14

Notes from 2YA

IVWJENDELSSOHN, Brahms, and Rubinstein on the lieder’ side. Verdi on the operatic side, Michael Head and Coleridge-Taylor on the "modern English" side, and Wilfred Sanderson and Amy Woodforde-Finden on the "popular" side, will all be re-pre-ented by voeal numbers to be prewhite) ‘at 2Y.\ by the Ariel Singers

next Monday. Mrs. Kennedy Fraser’s arrangements of Hebridean folk-songs are also always interesting. IXlocutionary items will be contributed by Mr. A. Stanley Warwick; Mr. Ernest Short, a baritone with 2 Dominionwide reputation, will be heard in some very fine numbers; and a brief organ recital will be given by Mr. Il. Mount. PUL ensemble numbers to be given by the Orpheus Quartet on 'Tuesday include "With a Laugh as We Go Round," from "The May Queen," by Sterndale Bennett. Also there are two old popular numbers, "Juanita" and "The Canadian Boat Song." As Mr. Len Barnes will be in Wanganui adjudicating the vocal section of the competitions, ‘his place in the quartet will be taken by Mr. Ray Kemp; Mr. Billy Hart will entertain with songs at the piano; Mr. Doug. Stark, a popular humorist, will be heard in some of his characteristic work; and the

Se 5 Se es pe cn Ses 3 ee i ee ss a= Ambassador Musical ‘Trio (piano, saxophone, and. banjo), will eontribute to the instrumental portion of an attractive programme. For Thursday the Warblers Male Quartet have chosen as quartet numbers "In a Gondola’ and "When You Played the Organ and I Sang the Rosary." Some excellent solos and duets will also be sung. The band of the First Battalion Wellington Regiment will be responsible for the major portion of the evening’s instrumental musie, to which the Oakland ‘Trio will also contribute. .lIumorous elocutionary numbers will be given by Miss Rose Carte. ARIETY and quality will be the outstanding characteristics of the programme to be broadcast by the tude Quartet on Friday evening. The concerted numbers will be "Soft and ow" (from the, "Mock Doctor," by Gounod). and. "See Our Oars with Feathered Spray." by Stevenson. "The Angelus," from "Maritana," will he sung as g trio, and Misses Gretta

Stark and Rita Arnold will sing the beautiful "Barcarolle" from "Tales of {Lloffman," with orchestral accompaniment. The duet "Qui Vive." by Planquette, will be sung by Messrs. Friunk Skinner and Ray Kemp, the former's solo being "The I*airy Song.’ 9 froin "The Immortal Tour," by Rutlaui Boughton. Miss Clodagh Rttissell will mike Keats the literary feature of the evening, Mr. Frank May will provide the humorous element, und Miss KHileen Bennett, a pupil of Miss Valerie Corliss, will entertain at the piano. NE of 2YA’s best Saturday night programmes has been arranged for next week-end, and a rebroadcast by 38YA will be made in order that the erystal set users of Christchurch should have the opportunity of enjoying the type of entertainment provided on Saturdays by 2YA. "This programme will he contributed by the Studio Orchestra, the ever popular Melodie Four, Messrs. Berthold and Bent (steel guitur duo), Mr. W. MeCleYan (humour). and by the Glad Idlers (topical sketch artists).