FRIDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 5, 15 August 1930, Page 21

FRIDAY

From I1YA, At 7.40 p.m. Mr. J. F. Montague will continue his talks on "Maori Pronunciation and Place Names." Another special programme has been arranged for this evening. The 1YA Orchestral Octet, under the direction of Mr. Eric Waters, will play the "Rosamunde Overture" by Schubert, two numbers by Rachmaninoff, "The Dances from ‘Tom Jones’" (by Edward German), and "Norwegian Rhapsody" (by Svendsen). The vocalists for the evening will be Madame Mary Towsey, Mrs. Iy,M. Keven, and Ar, John Bree. It will on this programme that the egymposers are drawn from various countries-England, Russia, Scotland, Germany and Norway. The programme will conclude with a special lecture-re-cital by Mr. Karl Atkinson, entitled "The Musical Renaissance." Wellington Topics. At 7.40, Mr. Barry Coney, of Auckfand, one of the finest baritones and best-known musicians in New Zealand, will talk on "The Foundation of Good Voice Production." Mr. Barry Coney is at present in Wellington acting as a judge at the competitions. A night of light opera will be provided. Vocal solos will include "The Vagabond King," "Barber of Seville," "Cingalee," "Peer Gynt," "Bohemian Girl," "Rebel Maid" and "Geisha." The soloists will be Mdlle. A. Pola Schea {soprano), Miss Ngaire Coster (contraltoy, Mr. Harry Dunn (tenor) and Mr. rhest Short (baritone). A pianoforte solo will be rendered by Miss Gladys Morgan and a programme of music by the orchestrina, under Signor A. P. Truda. Christchurch Features. LAYING Beethoven’s "Kreutzer Sonata," Miss Aileen Warren (piano) and Professor Zimmerman (violin) will open the fifth concert of Christchuirch’s Musie Week. Other instrumental numbers on this programme

will be organ solos by Dr. C. Edgar Ford, examiner for Trinity College, London, now visiting New. Zealand, a pianoforte solo. by Mr. Alfred Bunz, and a grand fafitasia by Derry’s Military Band. Asan interlude, from the studio, the instrumental octet will play the "Blue Danube Waltz." The vocal side of the programme will be provided by Madame Gower Burns (two s0prano solos), trios by Misses Sylvia Angus, Delcia Philpott and Kathleen Bon, and by Miss Millicent Jennings, _who will sing songs at the piano. "Pagoda of Flowers." At 4YA. "THE Pagoda of Flowers," which is perhaps. one of the finest song cycles written, will be the big classical _ item. The Harmonists Quartet will present this work, and their interpretation is certain to ‘be of exceptional merit. The cycle has its setting in India, and the descriptiveness of the pagoda beauty is presented by thg composer in brilliant style The chorus of the priests at the commencement, and again at the close, or coda, of the cycle, is a particularly fine effort.