TUESDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 5, 15 August 1930, Page 10

TUESDAY

Music and Nature Broadcast from 1YVA, qT continuation of the Auckland Musie Week festivities, 1YA is making a special effort to convey a love of good music to those listeners who will be unable, through disability or distance, to attend the fine concerts which are being given in the various halis in the city. The station is working in accordance with the Music Week Committee, and will present some excellent programmes: during the week. The various regular features of the programme will necessarily be continued. -T 3.15 p.m. Mrs. Les Crane will continue her series of lecturettes on "The Beauty of Mind and Body in Relation to Diet," and at 7.40 p.m, Mr. Alan McSkimming will continue his talks on Voice Culture. Recently the Monte Carlo Concert Orchestra gave a fine performance, and they have been engaged again to play this evening, They will give many selections from

favourite operas.. The vocalists for the evening are: Mrs. Laetitia Parry (soprano), who will sing "Mid Lures and Pleasures" (from "Rinaldo"’), "Rose Softly Blooming" (from "Azor and Nemira"), and "Knowest. Thou the Land" (from "Mignon’"); Mr. Arthur Ripley (tenor), whose numbers include "Soft Beams the Light" (from "Don Pasquale"), "I Was Dreaming" (from "Ma-Mai-Rosetti"), and "O Vision Bntransing" (from "Hsmeralda"), also Mr. Frank Sutherland (baritone), who has chosen "Great Isis, Great Osiris" (from "The Magic Flute"), "The Calf of Gold" (from "Faust"), and "When a Maiden Takes Your Fancy" (from "Il Seraglis’"’). A special feature of the programme will be 2 talk by Dr. George de Clive Lowe on "Music in Nature and Music in our Daily Lives." Dr. Lowe has been prominent in musical agtivities in Auckland for very many years, and is an authority on his subject Altogether this evening’s programme, including as it does much of the best of grand opera, should appeal to all listeners, as it contains plenty of variety. | Notes from Wellington. "THE afternoon lecture will be ene titled "A homemaker’s career is as interesting as a film star’s." The speaker will be Miss Plora Cormack. At 7.40 there will be a talk for the, man on the land. i The concert will be popular. Mrs. Mildred Kenny’s Mandolin Band will contribute, as well as a novelty duo, Shand and Austin. Humour will be provided by Mr. ©. Browne. Vocal solos will be provided by Miss Marjorie Bennie (contralto) and Mr. Johnny Hines (tenor). An instrumental programme will be provided by the 2YA Salon Orchestra under Mr. M. T. Dixon. Christchurch Features. "THE first half of the Christchurch "Music Week" programme will be contributed by the Christchreh Liedertafel and the second half by the Professional Musicians’ Orchestra. Numerous part songs by the Liedertafel will be interspersed by vocal solos by Mr. C. R. Williamson (tenor), Mr. H. J, Francis (tenor), and Mr, Leslie

Fleming (baritone). The solos will, include "Oh, Lovely Night,’ "A Dream," "Indian Serenade," and "The Song of the Toreador." Two pianoforte solos will be played by Dr. T. L. Crooke, a veteran in Christchurch musical circles. In the orchestral portion of the concert the conductor for the overture "Orpheus in the Underworld" will be Mr, Ernest Jamieson. Mr. H. G. Glaysher, well known to 3YA listeners as a harpist, will conduct the orchestra for the ballet music from Gounod’s "La Reine de Saba." In the presentation of. Bizet’s "L’Arlesienne" suite, Mr. Arthur Gordon will be the conductor, while for the overture "Coriolanus" the orchestra will be under the baton of Mr. Harold Beck. 4YA Items. "Les Cloches de Corneville." ELECTIONS from" Les Cloches de Corneville" are to be played by: the band of the Otago Regiment at 4YA. The remaining band selections on this programme are of the lighter type, and of a bright nature. Presented over 400 times running, and popular both in England and Germany, "Les Cloches de Corneville," a three-act comic opera, was Jean Planquette’s first hit.. The first performance of this delightful opera was in 1877, when the composer was twenty-nine years of age. Nearly every operatie society in the Dominion of New Zealand has at some time played it, and since the first presentation its popularity has been retained. Mrs. Carty, Miss Mary Somerville, Miss Pennie Marshall, Messrs. L. Stubbs, and Buster Brown are the assisting vocal artists in a very popular type of programme. With "Border Ballad," "Angus Macdonald," "Jock 0’ Hazeldean," "My Ain Folk," Scottish songs will be well represented on the programme. There will also be Scottish humour and the well-known band patrol "Wee McGregor."