FRIDAY

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 42, 2 May 1930, Page 11

FRIDAY

BRAHMS NIGHT From 1YA. ME- W. E. G. WHEELER will give a further talk on Esperanto. At 8 o’clock there will be a relay from the Lewis Eady Hall of the latest piano and instrumental music. The studio programme will be devoted to the works of the great composer Johannes Brahms. Two short talks on the life and works of Brahms will be given by Mrs. Daisy Basham, who has made a special study of this subject. She will be assisted by Madame Mary 'Towsey (soprano) and Mr. John Bree (baritone) in songs composed by Brahms and trios will be played by the Studio Trio. Special recordings of Brahms’s works will also be introduced. This type of programme is becoming exceedingly popular with. 1YA listenerg and it is the station’s intention to arrange, as far as possible, for these evenings to coincide with the various composers’ birthdays. The birthday of Brahms is on May 7. From 2YA. /T‘HD lecturer during the news session on this occasion will be Myr. Norman R. Jacobsen, who will give another of his series of talks on "Simple Explanations of Scientific Phenomena." "THE whole of the evening programme will be devoted to a performance of the three-act comedy "Give and Take," by Mr. Lew James’s International Radio Players. Mr. James will on this occasion give listeners "something different" in the way of play presentation and plays, and this promises

to be a unique programme in every way. Friday is usually an "operatic" night at 2YA, but this class of programme has been shelved on this occa-sion-in order that the company might take advantage of Mr. James’s temporary sojourn in this city. From 3YA. [THE weekly talk to farmers will be given by Mr. M. J. Scott, B.A., B.Se., on the subject of ‘Winter Feeding of Stock." The, Valencia Quartet has a very

attractive programme at 38YA, wheie the concert will be followed by a dance session at 9.30. One of the concerted numbers is worthy of special mention, "Her of Thee," first sung in the early ’sixties. Other quartets will be "Eyening’s Pastoral" (Shaw) and."It was a Lover and His Lass." Solos by Miss Lucy Fullwood will be "Spring’s Awakening" and "There’s a Song Down Iivery Roadway." Miss Mary Taylor will sing: "A Bowl of Roses," "The Sweetest Flower that Blows," and "The Hills of Donegal." Tenor solos by Mr. R. G. Rogers will be "Macushla" and "Mountain Lovers." The stirring

"King Charles" and "Song of the Wagoner" will be sung by Mr. D. J. Johnson. A new humorous entertainer is Mr. Reg. Lamb, who will be welcomed, and there will be instrumental ° music by Mr. Harold Beck (’cello) and the Broadcasting Trio. From 4YA. At™ 8.15 there will be a_ talk on "Fashions" by Miss Buccleugh. Contributing to the evening’s concert will be the Winkel-Lampen Radio Players. They will present two sketches, "The Cure" and "A Home: for Paul." On the musical side of -the programme will be items by Miss Poppy Christie (soprano), Miss Helen BE. Roy (contralto), Mr. B. J. Davies (tenor, one of whose songs will he sung in Welsh), and Mr. L. H. Stubbs (baritone). Violin and piano solos will be played by Mr. J. Wallace and Mr. Max Scherek respectively, and there will be selections by the Studia Trio.