Dinner Music Session

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 40, 19 April 1929, Page 8

Dinner Music Session

Welcome Innovation at 2YA_ ASs intimated in last week’s issue, 2YA’s hours are to be increased as from Monday, April 29, by the introduction of a new evening session. During this new session dinner music will be broadcast, and it will be known as the Dinner Music Session. There have been many requests for a session such as is proposed, and it is felt that it will receive widespread appreciation among town as well as among country listeners. The introduction of the new session will mean that the Children’s Session will commence earlier. The Djnner Session will provide music suitable to act as an accompaniment to a dinner, and to this end the entertainment will be specially chosen and presented, HE session will comuience at 6 p.m., and will consist of four periods of approximately ten minutes, commencing precisely at 6 p.m., 6.15, 6.30 and 6.45 p.m., and separated by, periods of approximately five minutes’ silence. The object of these periods of silence is to avoid the monotony of unbroken music during the dinner hour, and to conform to the accepted practice of leading hotel bands. The greatest possible scope for variety of entertainment of the character required for this session is offered by records. and opportunity will be taken of this fact to present specially selected and = arranged programmes. The classification of programmes will correspond to some extent with the classification of the concert sessions, but the music chosen will be of # simple type, complex forms being recognised as unsuitable for dinner accompaninent. On classical and operatic nights a feature will be made of the presentation of the more popular forms of complete works. These will include popular opera, the latest musical comedy, symphonies, and concerti, orchestral suites, and ballet music. [* is recognised that at the present time many magnificent performances of complete works by the world’s leading orchestras, choruses, and solo artists are being recorded, and their presentation during the dinner session will make them available to radio listeners as soon as released, as in addition to complete works, the Dinner Session will feature the outstanding recordings each month of the leading orchestras and soloists. During the popular sessions all the latest releases of popular music will be introduced. At these sessions listeners may depend upon hearing the complete scope of each month’s gramophone releases in popular music. The Dinner Session will also be treated as a special. request session. Listeners desirous of hearing any particular number should forward their request to the Company’s Head Office at Christchurch, when the first opportunity will be taken to, include such numbers in the programmes.