Notes from 2YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 29, 1 February 1929, Page 14

Notes from 2YA

IN the after-church concert on Sunday evening, Miss Rita Arnold will be heard in an excerpt from the opera "Don Carlos" entitled "O Fatal Gift," and in the well-known "Dlegie"’ of Massenet. She will also sing with Mr. Kemp the duet "Hold Thou My Hand." Mr. Ray Kemp has chosen for his items "Thanks Be To God," by Dickson and Bartlett’s well-known song "A Dream"; the latter number will be bracketed with Haydn Wood’s "A Brown Bird Singing." Mr. Chas. Edwards will sing as tenor solos Allitsen’s "The Lord is My Light," and a bracket of two further numbers, "My Task," by Ashford, and "The Blind Ploughman," by Clarke. Pianoforte solos will be played by Mr. Norman Izett who has chosen for his items Barrett’s "Highland Lament," and Chopin’s Valse Op, 42. On Monday there will be a further lecturette at 7.40 by "Hare Hongi." Miss Nora Greene, whose fine contralto voice and artistry have made her a favourite with radio audiences,

will be heard on Monday evening in the famous aria "Softly Awakes My Heart," from Saint-Saens’s opera "Samson and Delilah," and in a bracket of two lighter numbers. Miss Myrtle Elliott will, on Monday, make her debut as a radio vocalist. Miss Elliott, who is the possessor of a pleasing soprano yoice, will sing Zerdos’s "To the Angels," "The Garden of Happiness," and the well-known favourite, "Bird Songs at Eventide." Mr. S. KE. Roger has chosen for his items a group of three well-known Irish songs, the evergreen "She is Far from the Land," "The Snowy-Breasted Pearl," a romantic little number symbolical of the Irish race, and the always popular "Mother Machree." Mr. Oscar Dyer, one of Wellington’s rising young tenors, has chosen for his items a song by Squire entitled "The Sold" and a composition by Friml, "My Paradise." ISS Murie! Allan, 2 talented young pianist from the studio of Miss Valerie Corliss (a local teacher of English and Continental experience), will present studies from the modern composers such as Palmgren, Swinstead, Scriabin and Zolocarev. Mr. Victor S. Lloyd, whose work created. something of a sensation amongst listeners on his first appearance before the microphone recently, will relate another of his experiences. Apropos of Mr. Lloyd’s first appearance, a well-known radio journalist remarked that in his opinion Mr. Lloyd’s item was the finest thing he had heard "over the air," and listeners will no doubt be interested to know that arrangements have been made for a series of items from Mr. Lloyd in the future. Mr. Lloyd has proved himself a worthy disciple of "Alan of 2L0, London," whose items are always favourites with the radio audiences of the United

Kingdom, "Alan of 2L0" is one of the people included in the "Masters of the Microphone" series published by the "Radio Times" (the official organ of the B.B.C.). A YOUNG tenor of promise in the person of Mr. Oliver Foote will on Tuesday make his radio debut. Mr. Foote’s numbers will include a TH "Oft in the Stilly Night," an old I ballad that is always a favourite. will also sing a rather unusual and bright song by Slater, entitled "Hira, Hera Ho," and a composition by Lohr, "Time Was I Roved the Mountains." Mr. Chas. Brazier, one of Wellington’s leading exponents of the banjo, will also be on the same programme. Mr. Brazier is by no means a newcomer to radio, having appeared with marked success on 2YA’s programmes last year. Jazz songs will be sung by Mr. W. BP. Blliott, who will feature amongst his items the popular song "Sleepy Seas." This is an item that has always been encored whenever Mr. Hlliott has sung it, and no doubt listeners. will look forward to this item with pleasurable anticipation. Mr. Blliett is an artist of experience, having appeared on several big picture theatre circuits, as well as locally at various functions, clubs and public entertainments. ™ Mr. Jock Martin, a Scottish comedian, recently arrived from the Old Country, will entertain listeners with original songs and. stories redolent of the land of the heather. Miss Marjorie Buckeridge, the popular young soubrette, will entertain listeners with two numbers from her repertoire, "Dancing Time," by Kern, and Stuart’s "Ob. Listen to the Band." ON Thursday afternoon Messrs. Hamilton Nimmo and Sons will give another of their popular Player Piano and Gramophone Recitals. The Player Piano selections will be played by Mr. A. J. Nimmo, one of the principals of Messs. Nimmo and Sons, and one whose rendition of player rolls was the subject of very favourable comment on the occasion of this firm’s last recital. g On Thursday evening at 7.40 Colon Sandell, of the Salvation Army Headquarters Staff, will give another of his. interesting and informative talks, his’ subject on. this occasion being "Uncommon Commonplaces-the Homeland." \ Outstanding items by the Wellington City Silver Band on Thursday evening will be Round’s celebrated "Musical Fragments," a waltz by Rimmer, @ euphonium solo, "The Village Blacksmith," a selection entitled "American Four," and a reverie "The Bell of Sunset." Two popular marches, "For Freedom and Honour’ and "Westbury," will also. be played. } The vocal section of Thursday’s prot" gramme will be provided by the Mellow Fellows’ Male Quartet, whose items will range from grave to gay, @ special number being a four-part arrangement of the popular fox-trot, "C.O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E." . This

tem is being repeated by request, it having proved very popular with listeners on its first presentation. Miss Christina Young, mezzo-soprano, who sang on the opening night of 2YA as soloist of the Love Maori Quartet, will sing two Maori songs, "Hine e Hine" by Te Rangi Pai, and "Home, Little Maori, Home," by Alfred Hill. _A feature of Thursday’s pro--gramme will be "Child Impersonations," by ‘Mrs. William Bailey, and two sketches by Mr. and Mrs. William Bailey. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are two well-known teachers of the dramatic art in Wanganui, and on the occasion of their wilast visit to 2YA their work was on all sides. The-sketches "to be presented will be "The Brass Door Knob," a dramatie number, and "A Marriage Has Been Arranged," a humorous number. THE Etude Quartet, comprising Miss Gretta Stark (soprano), Miss Rita Arnold (contralto), Mr. Frank Skinner (tenor) and Mr. Roy Kemp (baritone) will on Friday give exeerpts from the well-known musical comedy, "The Arcadians." The items to be presented will comprise vocal solos, duets, quartets and choruses. The elocutionary items for the evening will be provided by the wellknown local elocutionist, Mr, Barton Ginger, who has chosen for his items two excerpts from "Grindle" by Thomas-Grindle on "Daughters" and Grindle on "Cupid and Cooking." ~¥pun Melodie Four will on Saturday evening give listeners a bright and interesting programme. Their quartet numbers will include the humorous "Old Mother Hubbard" and two popular numbers, "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi’ and "Songs of Hawaii.’ Mr. R. S, Allwright (baritone) has chosen for his solo the rollicking old ballad "Rather O'Flynn." Mr. Frank Bryant will present the old favourite "Duna." Sanderson’s fine song, "The Last Call" will receive at Mr. Marshall’s hands sympathetic treatment, and Mr. Sam Dunean’s tenor voice will be heard in Coningsby Clarke’s "Daphne," a beautiful little number which is sure to please all tastes. Mr. Will McKeown will provide the humour of the evening, his item being "The Fatal Sneeze" and "After the Accident," two numbers which, rendered in Mr. MeKeown’s inimitable style, are bound to tickle the ¢"" faculties of listeners. "Novelty piano solos which are different" might be the way that the items to be given by Mr. MeKenzie on Saturday could be deseribed. Mr. McKenzie takes an item or an excerpt from a musical comedy, plays it through "as written," and then proceeds to give his own version of the excerpt, and a novelty is the result.