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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 10, 19 September 1930, Page 11

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Features from 1YA. ‘AN interesting programme, to include many of Auckland’s leading artists, has been arranged. The New Clarion Quartet (Miss Lilian Woods, Miss Beryl Smith, Mr. Lambert Harvey and Mr. Duncan Black) will be heard in concerted and solo numbers. "Am-Meer," a transcription: of one of the famous songs of Schubert, will be played by Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh. Clarinet solos will be rendered by Mr. 8, C. Lewis, a very popu-

lar performer from this station. Miss Maisie Carte-Lloyd, a foremost elocutioniste, will also be heard in several numbers. Notes from Wellington. HD programme will consist mainly of excerpts from light operas. The vocal items will include vdice solos and concerted numbers from "TI aust," "The -Geisha,’" "Tom Jones," "The Rose Maiden" and "Merrie England." The supporting orchestral items will also include selections from grand and light opera. Miss Dulcie Reeve will play as a pianoforte solo a composition "The Lark," by the Russian composer Glinka. Two elocutionary numbers, one dramatic and one humorous, will be given by Mr. Doug. Edwards. During the course of this programme portion of a sound film will be relayed from the Majestic Theatre. 3YA’s Programme. HE contributing artists to the popular programme will be: Mrs. Grace Bmpson (mezzo-soprano), Mr. D. McGill (tenor), Mr. Leslie Fleming (bass), Mr. J. P. Darragh (elocutionist), Mr. HB. Withers (clarionetist), Mr. N. G. Goffin (cornetist), Mr. John Campbell (concertina and ocarino exponent) and Mr. Les Grummitt (improvisor on the piano). Items from 4YA. (THE works of Arthur Somerville, Mus., Doc., the brilliant scholar and pupil of Sir Chas, Stanford, are to be represented at 4YA this even-

ing by the presentation of one of his finest song cycles, "Wind Flowers." As Dr. Somerville, prior to his musical course, was a student of the classics, it is only to be expected that there will be something outstanding in the ‘style and treatment of his librettos. Included in the items is the quartet, "Music When Soft Voices Die." Somerville’s treatment of this rivals Roger Quilter’s solo arrangement of these delightful words. A further example of Someérville’s beauty in composition is found in the duet of the same cycle, "Iwo Doves on a SelfSame Branch." The whole of "Wind Flowers" is characteristic of the quaint folk song. typical of the English race. John Se bastien Bach’s compositions, both in strumental and vocal, occupy the re maining portion of this particularly fine entertainment. ‘There will be a lecture by Mr. Max Scherek, president of the Otago Society of Musicians, ou this great composer.