Love and Music

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 11, 26 September 1930, Page 5

Love and Music

3YA = Recital THE association which music has with the divine is the theme of a lecture-recital entitled "Love and Music," to be presented at 8YA on Thursday, October 2, by Mr. Arthur Lilly, A.R.C.O. The programme has been arranged by Mr. Lilly, who will make explanatory remarks on the various phases of life. In "Love in Infancy," a lullaby and a cradle song will be introduced to create the atmosphere. As the "Girl and Boyhood" stage passes, "To My Hirst Love" and "Sally In Our Alley" (will be sung Purcell’s "Passing By" nd the playing of German’s "Morris Dance" will be symbolical of "Youth." In the "Young Men and Maidens" stage, "Love Was Meant to Make Us Glad" and "Love Was Once a Little Boy" will be heard. ; This will be followed by the "Romance" phase. Into this much vocal and instrumental music will be introduced. ‘"Love’s Bliss," exemplified by excerpts from "Lohengrin," follows. In "Love in Sadness" listeners will hear "Solveig’s Song," "Sceres That Art Brightest," Liszt’s "Liebestraume" ‘and Trotere’s "In Old Madrid." "Rap ture in Love" has its full complement of music, including the "Indian Love Call," which will be sung with flute obligato. "Love of Home and Country" would not, of course, be complete without the singing of "Home, Sweex Home," among other items, one of which will be "Land of Our Love," composed by Mr. Lilly. The final chorus for the evening will be Sir John Stainer’s "God So Loved the World," typifying "Divine Love for Man." The artists who will contribute to this fine programme will be: Miss Sylvia Marshall (soprano), Miss Ciceley Christian (soprano), Miss Pessy Hollander (mezzo-soprano), Masters Hancock and Ralph Lilly (treble), Mr. Gregory Russell (tenor), Mr. A, Kinvig (tenor), Mr. A. McCullagh (bass), and Messrs. Watkins and Woodward, Mr. A. Bunz (pianist), and Mr. Har"old Beck (’cellist). A feature of the programme will be the concerted singing by the choir of Holy ‘Trinity Church, Avonside, by the choir boys of the church and by the ladies of the choir. The Avonside Girls’ High School Choir, of fifty voices, under Migs. J. Black, will sing the New Zeascioo song, "Land of Our Love" & (@omposed by Mr. Lilly).