1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 10

1YA Features

il evening service at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church will be relayed on Sunday, the preacher being the Rey. Ivo Bertram and the organist Dr. Neil McDougall. It is interesting to note that in this church the music is provided by a professional quartet, After the church relay a studio programme will be given, the artists being Mrs. J. Le Pettit (mezzo-soprano), Mr. Clinton Williams (baritone), Mr. Bric Waters (pianist), and the Studio Trio, AXOTHER of the series of zoological tulks will be given on Tuesday evening by Dr. C. EF. Bevan Brown. Hé¢ will speak on "Notes on the Health of Wild Animals." CESDAY evening will be devoted to a special programme of selections from grand operas composed by Guiseppe Verdi. This is in continuatinn of the series of lecture-recitals given by Mrs. Daisy Basham. Her talk wiil be on the life and works of this fainous composer. Contributing to the programme will be the 1YA Orchestral Octet, whose numbers will include "Barearola," dnd selections from "Rigoletto," "Othello," and "Aida." Miss Millicent O’Grady will sing "Cara Nome" (from "Rigoletto’) and "Ah, Fors e Lui" (from "La Traviata’). She will also be associated with Mr. Len Barnes in the duet, "Mira, di acerbe lagrime" (from "Il Trovatore’), Mr. Arthur Ripley’s items will include "La! Donna e Mobile" (from "Rigoletto" ), "Celeste Aida" (from "Aida"), and a duet with Mrs. Daisy Basham, "Home to Our Mountains" (from "Il Troyatore"). Mr. Len Barnes will sing "Credo" (from "Othello"’), the aria "Quando ero Paggio" (from "Falstaff" ) and "Dagli immortali vertioi’ (from "Attila"). There will be recordings of the "Anvil Chorus" (from "Il Trovatore") and "La Tempesta" (from "Othello").

At 7.40 p.m. on Wednesday evening, Mr, Norman Kerr will continue his lecture on "Physical Culture." The evening’s studio programme will be given by the Congress Hall Band under the ,.baton of Mr. Thomas Pace. Apart from an excellently varied instrumental programme a party of bandsmen will sing "Hail, Smiling Morn." Two vocalists who will be welcomed will be Mr. and Mrs. W. Leather. who have not been heard from 1YA for some time. Mr. Leather is the choirmaster at Pitt Street Methodist Church. His items will be "The Kerry Dance" and "So Fair a Flower." Mrs. Leather will sing "June Music" and "Sing, Joyous Bird." A duet will also be sung, "A Paradise for Two." Mr. Cyril Towsey will be heard in the pianoforte solo, "Scherzo in B. Flat Minor" (by Chopin). Humour will be dispensed by My. Dan Flood. The programme will also include a lecture-re-cital by a commentator concerning the latest gramophone recordings.

N Thursday evening there will be a relay from United Hall, Hobsou Street, of installation of the Grand Master and, officers of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows. Concluding the evening’s broadcast will be dance music from the Manchester Hall,

At 7.40 on Friday evening, Mr. W. G. Wheeler and his assistants will be continuing their series of Esperanto talks. This will be followed by a relay from Messrs. Lewis Eady’s Hall of the latest vocal and instrumental music. In the studio concert programme Mr. Frank Sutherland (bass-baritone) and Miss Sarah Stacpoole (soprano) will! sing solos and duets. Included among Mr, Sutherland’s items is "The Minnight Review," a very fine number by Glinka. Mr. J. M. Clark, a particularly fine elocutionist, will be heard in "Polonius’s Advice to His Son" (from "Hamlet"), and "Jean Goello’s Yarn" (by Coppee and translated from the French). The Studio Trio will be

heard in various selections. Mr. Erie Waters will play the pianoforte solo, "Nocturne" (by York Bowen).

ON Saturday evening 1YA_ will celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day. The Orchestral Octet, under Mr. Eric Waters, will be heard in music appropriate to the land of the shamrock, The vocalists for the evening will be Madame Mary Towsey (soprano), Miss Nancy O’ Connor (soprano), Miss Aimee Clapham (contralto), Mr. John McDougall (tenor), and Mr. John Bree (baritone). The lighter type of Irish music will be given by the Snappy Three.