Notes From 2YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 35, 15 March 1929, Page 14

Notes From 2YA

HE Roman Catholic service in St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Chureh will be broadcast on Sunday evening. Local artists contributing to the studio concert which will follow the church broadcast will be Miss Evelyn Robinson, Mr. E. W. Robbins, and Mr. W. H. Gregg. There will be an excellent supporting programme of selected records. BRIGHT programme of a light nature will be presented on Tuesday evening, the programme commencing with two old favourites, "The New Colonial March" and Waudteufel’s ‘"Hstudiantina Waltz," played by the Studio Orchestra. Other orchestral items will be Boccherini’s "Minuet," Bizet’s "Serenade Hspagnole," a medley, "Snacks in Bars," and a musical comedy selection, "The Beauty Prize,’ by Kern. Mrs. M. R. Lightbody, soubrette, will sing several light vocal numbers, and a new combination in the persons of Messrs. Billy Hart and Hd. Silver, will also entertain with popular jazz songs and latest hits. Mr. Billy Hart requires no introduction to radio audiences, but Mr. Silver has only recently ‘‘come on the air" at 2YA. Mr. Silver has had considerable experience in England in singing songs of the lighter type, having appeared with jazz bands on the "halls," both in London and in the provinces. Another new combination appearing on Tuesday’s programme will be the

Messrs. Jack McEwen and S. Rose, saxophone and banjo players respectively. Both artists are masters of their instruments and are well known locally in dance band circles. Mr. MeEwen has appeared at 2YA previously as a soloist, and his work is noticeable on account of the smooth tone and good intonation. "THURSDAY night is "Band Night" at 2YA, and the band providing the programme on this occasion will be the ist Battalion Wellington Regiment Band under the conductorship of Lieut. B. J. Shardlow. Their items will comprise the well-known descriptive piece "A Drum Head Church Service," a humoresque "A Trip to Blackpool," a fox trot, and several waltzes and marches. A cornet solo will be played by Sergeant W. Bark. The Lyric Quartet will assist with the vocal side of the programme, and humour will be provided by Mrs. Ransom Myers, a newcomer to radio. The items to be presented by the Lyric Quartet will comprise the duet "The Crucifix," a bass solo, "The Friend For Me," a tenor solo, "Thou art risen my Beloved," by Coleridge Taylor, and a bracket of baritone solos by Mr. Will Goudie. Two sea shanties and two quartet numbers Will also be sung. N Friday, an interesting semi-oper-atic programme will be presented at 2YA by the Ariel Singers. Italian, French, and English composers will be represented thereon, perhaps the most important being Handel, Verdi, and Gounod. For the first time by 2YA studio artists, the famous quartet

"Una di se ben rammentomi," from Verdi’s "Rigoletto," will be performed. The orchestral items will be the "Gluck Overture," the suite "Pelleas et Melisande," a grand opera number, "Cavalliera Rusticana," and a dance suite by Bortkiewisez ,"Russian Dances Numbers 2 and 4." Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russell, the popular entertainers, will provide the humour for the evening, radiating some more "joy germs." N Saturday evening a bright and interesting programme will. be regdered, the "March of the Tin Soldier and the "Dance of the Elves," by Moszkowski, being the orchestra’s opening numbers; further orchestral items will include a xylophone solo "William Tell" overture, soloist Mr. L. Probert, a waltz suite "Valses Piquantes" (by Peel), and a musical comedy selection. The vocal musical section of the programme will be given by the Melodie Four, and humour by Mr. Arthur Chalk. Novelty piano solos will also be played by Mr. James McKenzie. The Melodie Four will sing three concerted numbers, "Comrades in Arms," "Mosquitoes" (by request), and a four-part arrangement of "Jeannine I Dream of Lilac Time." ‘ © ME. R. S. Allwrnght (baritone) will be heard in the well-known song "Mandalay," and Mr. Sam Duncan will sing "Somewhere a Voice is Calling," a ballad suitable to Mr. Duncan’s type of voice. The bass soloist, Mr. W. W. Marshall, has chosen for his item "Love Me and the Worldis Mine." Mr. Frank Bryant will sing "Blue Sky and White Road." Y