Fine Concert from Wanganui on Dec. 7
THE. relaying of a concert over.-a long length of landline,-as is being done in the case of Wanganui, discloses what a field of wide possibilities there is in connection with broadcasting. Short relays are, of course, of every-day occurrence, but considerable difficulties beset those of long distance. Even short lines are frequently subject to inductance and much more likely is a long line to pick up extraneous noises. Though the Wanganui ine which will be used for this relay is of but recent erection, a test made a few months ago proved that it was unsuitable for broadcasting purSs poses owing to the noises picked up from , outside sources during its long distance. Since then the Post and Telegraph officers have been at work on the line and its environs and the recent test transmission from. Wanganui to 2YA was satisfactory. MINIM PN LLL 5 See atid VERY effort will be made to ensure a stecessful transmission on the night of the concert. The Broadcasting ComPCT MMU EL ot
pany’s Chief Engineer, Mr. J. M. Bingham, will visit Wanganui and will conduct the broadcast from that end. The realisation of the successful transmission of music over long distances by line requires a telephone circuit which has been specially fitted with amplifiers and frequency correctors, so that equal transmission of all frequencies between about 30 and at least 6000 cycles is ensured. The amplifiers must compensate for the loss incurred in the transmission over the line and in the frequency correctors so that the ratio of unwanted signal (line noise which is picked up en route) is never allowed to fall below a certain value. Outstanding Performers. R. Hubert Carter, acknowledged as New Zealand’s foremost tenor, with broadcasting experience in England and Australia, will head the list of vocal artists. He will be heard in operatic solos, a duet and a quartet. TTT TTT TMT
RS. Leo Campion, a very fine contralto, Miss Edna Greenwood, a young singer ‘of great promise, and Mr. Keith Grant (baritone) have all sung for 2YA. MBS. Wills, another excellent contralto, has gained championship honours at various musical competitions. ISS Vivienne Ralph, contralto, has had experience at Home and abroad and is considered to be a very accomplished singer, Me: J. G. Swan is the veteran elocutionist well known throughout New Zealand, and he is now, despite his age, one of the finest entertainers in the country. MBS. T, L. Sperring, who will give a humorous monologue, is another fine artist. EBS. G. E. Terrant is a soprano singer who has won many prizes at competitions. She will sing: "The Nightingale’s Trill." ~-(Continued on page 9). TUTTE 5
1 ’ ct (Continued from Front Page.) MASTER Jack Buckley, twelve years 4} : of. age, who play a cornet solo to band accompaniment, is a son of Captain George Buckley,, conductor of the Queen Alexandra's Own Band, himself at one time the champion cornetist of New Zealand and Australia. N Mr. Gordon Bergerson the band has a champion cornetist. ELis contribution to the. evening's entertainment will be the ‘‘Arbucklenian Polka." to which the band will play the accompaniment. ; UNIQUE. items on the programme -wili be supplied by the Wanganui Harmonica Bands, of -60 performers. They will play "Drink to me. Only" and "Old Black Joe." Items from Champion Band. QUPREME interest. will be taken in the numbers by the Queen Alexandra’s Own Band. Two contest selections are to be played and these have an added interest in view of the contest in Wanganui next year. These selections are Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" and Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde." Other numbers will be the overture "Zampa," the descriptive "In a Monastery Garden," the sketch "The Mill in the Dale" and "The Dawn of Freedom," a fine march that will conelude the evening’s entertainment,
BADING .,somewhat like a romance has been the history of the Queen Alexandra's Own Regimental Band. Its present title gives little indication of its humble origin. Last century-or at any rate very near the beginning of . this one-a few enthusiasts in a. church ‘organisation, the Trinity Young Men's Institute, formed a drum and. fife band. Taking the initials, it became known as the "T.Y.M.I, Bahd" and as such it had varying fortunes,. almost disappearing at times until it was resurrected as the "City Band." For many years this, too, had a precarious existence, It passed through the fires of scorn and ridicule, but one day the city learned with amazement that Mr. George Buckley, lieutenant and champion .cornetist of ‘the Wanganui Garrison Band, had become conductor of the City Band. ‘In the years that followed, the genius of the conductor built up, moulded and trained the City Band, or, as it became known when it attained military status,’ the Queen Alexandra’s Own Regimental Band, until it became the finest brass band combination in New Zealand, probably in the whole of Australasia. As the band competed at the various contests
in the Second Grade and finally in the First Grade, .it carried off various prizes. _ Some people to whom the Queen Alexandra’s was still the "City Band," and the "T.Y.M.I, Band," considered these successes were "flnkes," due to the whim of the judges. But it was strange that each contest saw the band gaining more laurels until for the last two years it has earried off the premier honours for New Zealand.
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Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 20, 30 November 1928, Unnumbered Page
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