4YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 28, 24 January 1930, Page 15

4YA Features

AX. interesting. feature of the band: ; programme, from 4YA on. Sunday will: be a selection from Spohr’s opera "T essonda." The story. of this opera is laid in Goa, a Portuguese possession on the Indian ‘coast, in the 16th cen-: ‘tury, when-Portugal was a great maritime power. ‘The natives had rebelled, and the Portuguese were for a time expelled. The native Rajah dies, and ‘his widow, Jessonda, is to be burned on the funeral pyre with him, according to the Brahmin custom. Nadori, a young Brahmin priest, is sent to prepare Jessonda for her fate. But he is a doubting priest and he falls in love with Amazili, the sister ‘of Jessonda, who he promises to save. Jessonda waits anxiously. for the assault of the Portuguese, whose warships have arrived with reinforcements for the troops already besieging Goa, for she knows the new commander is her. first lover, General Tristan d’ Acunha. : The High Priest," Dandau, is intent on sacrificing her. During a truce with the besiegers he conducts her to be bathed in the purifying waters of a sacred fountain. As she passes back through the Portuguese lines she is recognised by d’Acunha, but his honour. as a soldier forbids a violation of* the: truce, and Jessonda passes back to her fate. But Nadori visits d’Acunha. secretly, and tells him that the High »Priest has already violated the truce by sending out spies to burn the Portu‘guese ships. Thereupon the -Portuguese, guided by Nadori through secret subterranean passages, enter Goa just in time to prevent the death of Jessonda at the hands of-the High Priest, who, foiled: of the sacrifice, was about to slay her by the sword, She becomes the bride of d’Acunha,; and the young priest marries her .sister, Amazili. Other band items: will’ include a very fine arrangement,. of Beethoven’s works and Mendelssohn’s "St. Paul;" also a new hymn, "Radioeast," composed by the conductor of the pand. APTAIN CANDLER will be the preacher in the Salvation Army Citadel on Sunday evening, when the

service is to be broadcast. A fine studio concert by the Kaikorai Band, under the conductorship of Mr. T. J. Kirk-Burnnand, will follow. The assisting vocalists will be Miss -Gwenda Burt (contralto), Mr. W. Harrison (tenor) and Mr. W. Ruffell (baritone). . FEATURED on the first half of the programme on Monday evening will be the light opera "Dorothy," of which the principal excerpts will be sung by the 4YA Harmonists-Miss Mae Matheson, Miss M. Green, Mr. H. Johnson, and Mr. F. M. Tuohy. Other solos by these vocalists will be "Songs | My Mother Taught Me," "Bitterness of Love," "The Lotus Flower," and "What the Red Haired Bosun Said." The instrumentalists will be the Studio Trio. Mr. P. J. Palmer will play a cello. solo. a BRASS quintet composed of members of the Kaikorai Band, will be playing on Tuesday evening, interspersing vocal items on the , programme. .Other instrumental: numbers ‘will-be a. baritone solo by Mr. W. J. Nelson, 2 cornet solo by Mr. fra Coughlan, and: a tenor horn. selection . by Mr. D. Scott. The singers for the evening will be Miss Letti de Clifford, ‘Miss Irene Horniblow, and Mr. Nor‘man Lennon. Hlocutionary. items will ‘be:given by Mr. Carl Moller. ON Wednesday evening at 7.40 there 3 will be a talk to farmers. Mc‘Caw’s Novelty Saxophone Band,. assisted by 4YA artists, will provide Wednesday evening’s entertainment. The band will play a very interesting programme. The items will include a saxophone solo by Mr. Jock Magee and’ a saxophone duet by Messrs. H. Aburn, and J. McCaw. The vocal items for the’ evening ‘will be contributed by Miss Evelyn A. Shepard (soprano) and Mr. Neil Black (baritone), while Miss Nellie Osborn will: contribute elocutionary numbers, and Mr. J. A. Paterson will be heard in Fyffe and Lauder Scottish humour. OULDS’ famous "Keltie Suite" will be the opening number by the Instrumental Quintet on Friday evening. Other items will be "Haydn -Wood’s' Songs," "Nell Gwynn’ overture, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1," the overture to "Norma," and a selection from "The Girl on the Film." Further instrumental numbers will be a clarinet solo by Mr. 8S. George, ’cello solos by Mr. Frank Drake, and a piano solo by Miss Sybil Baker, The assisting vocalists will be Miss Aileen -Young (soprano), and Mr. A. Lungley (baritone); while elocutionary numbers will be given by Mr. Lester Moler. : "ON Saturday evening the programme ‘ will be relayed from 3YA.