Recital at 1YA

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 19, 22 November 1929, Page 7

Recital at 1YA

Music from Byrd to Busoni v NF of the undoubted boons of brondcasting lies in its beneficient educational possibilities which bring the most isolated listeners directly in contact with modern movements and cultural phases’undreamed of in pre-wire-less days, No better example of this aspect of broadcasting could be found than the proposed series of piano lecture-recitals by Mr. Cyril Towsey, the well-known pianist at 1YA, Auckland, on the "History of Keyboard Musie from Byrd to Busoni." These recitals will be of about half an hour’s duration and are to be given regularly each TueSday afternoon between four o’clock and half-past. Piano music-lovers, to say nothing of a host of .ordinary listeners, will find the series both informative and entertaining, because allied to Mr. Towsey’s rare ability to demonstrate the chosen examples on the piano will be-the interesting remarks on the composers and their works. He will attempt to emphasise the human side of music and there is not 2 musician of the old masters who was not only intensely human, but many of them were remarkably versatile men of affairs. It would be an exeellent idea for music-teachers everywhere to hold listening-in parties of piano students, Who could make notes on what is said and played, and thereby derive substantial benefit from the course, The series will be inaugurated by 1YA on Tuesday afternoon, November 26, at 4 o’clock.