1YA Notes.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 34, 8 March 1929, Page 14

1YA Notes.

pan composer of "Mignon," Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas, was a man of unusual and arresting versatility. He was an artist, poet, and writer in general.‘ His musical style is easy, fluent, brilliant at times in the extreme. To many persons "Mignon" is his masterpiece. It is a typical example of that grace and ease so characteristic of the French school of operatic music. Excerpts from "Mignon" are to be presented by 1YA on Tuesday evening, with Madame Irene Ainsley as Mignon. The cast of characters will be: Mignon ...... Madame Irene Ainsley Telina .......-.... Miss Beryl Adams William .......... Mr. Jack Maddox The Minstrel ...... Mr. Fryer Raisher Quite apart from the attraction of "Mignon," Tuesday evening’s programme will be a splendid one. The same vocalists will be singing. Madame Irene Ainsley will herself sing two songs by Ronald, and Miss Beryl Adams will sing "Pipes of Pan." The tenor, Mr. Jack Maddox will sing "Nirvana," and Mr. Fryer-Raisher’s solo will be "Oh, No, John!" Mr. J. ¥. Montague has been engaged for this eyening. He will recite "A Week in the Country," and, in company with Mr. Culford Bell, will enact a scene from "Henry YI." The instrumental musie for Tuesday evening will also be a feature. Mr. Erie Waters will play "Virginia Creeper." The Auckland Trio’s selections will be "Ballet Music from ‘Taust’?" and "Wildflowers." There will be relays from the Majestic Theatre, where the orchestra is under the baton of Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh.

MiSs MADGH CLAGUB, contralto, will present three fine songs on Wednesday evening-‘"Sea Wrack" (by Harty), "The Silver Ring" (by Chaminade), and Homer’s "Requiem." Another vocalist will be Mr. William Sleep (tenor), who will sing three fay-ourites-"When My Ships Come Sailing Home," "Red Devon by the Sea," and "Beneath Thy Window." fFlocutionary numbers to be given by Miss Rhona Speed will be "Seaside Gossip" (humorous), "My Ships," and "Paradise Orientale." In the second half of the evening’s programme, the Asquiths will give one of their popular thirty minutes’ drawing-room entertainments. ’The ‘Studio Orchestra will present a very’ popular programme on Wednesday evening, the selections comprising "The Magic Flute," "I% a Clock Store," "Der Rosenkavalier,’ and To-night’s the Night." *‘QUUTWARD BOUND," the three-act , play presented by the Auckland Little Theatre Society, will be the attraction for Thursday evening. (CONCERTED numbers to be sung by the Clarion Quartet on Friday evening will be "The Heart Dowed Down" and "The Lark Sings." The solo "Golden Dancing Days" will be sung by Miss Alma McGruer. Miss Beryl Smith will sing Stanford’s "A

PLL LLL LLL LIL EEE EEE EE EEE EE Soft Day.’ ‘These two vocalists will also sing as a duet "Bird Songs at Eventide.’ A male voice duet, "At Peace With the World," will be sung by Messrs. J. Simpson and Duncan Black. Solos by these two vocalists will be "I Arise from Dreams of Thee" and "Valhalla’s Walls." Some excellent instrumental items can be expected from Miss Molly Wright (’cellist), Mr. Bric Maxwell (pianist), and the Auckland Trio. On Friday evening there will be another of the popular gramophone-lec-ture recitals introduced last year by Mr, Karl Atkinson. Mr. Atkinson will on this occasion deal with Twentieth Century songs and singers. Elocutionary items to be given by Mr. Alan McSkimming on Friday evening will inelude "Cato on Immortality" and "All will be well with England," the latter by Conan Doyle. "THERE will be an Irish concert on Saturday evening in honour of St. Patrick.