Open-Air Concerts

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 25, 2 January 1931, Page 5

Open-Air Concerts

Free to the Public JDESIROUS of extending its sphere of usefulness, the Broadcasting Company proposes to make availabie some of its entertainment resources to the general public. With that end in view it intends, according to a statement made by Mr. A. R. Harris, géneral manager, to give during the summer months a series of weekly openair concerts. These entertainments will be provided by the city bands--band concerts being best suited for open-air performances-but vocal artists will also contribute. An attractive feature of these con- ' certs, as far as the public is concerned, il be that no collection will be taken upJ{ithe performances being entirely a the people. The entertainments would normally be given in the studio and would be exclusively for radio listeners, but the company intends to make them available to the public in general. Arrangements will be made to relay the concerts, and this expense, together with other expenses attached to broadeasting the entertainment, will be borne by the Broadcasting Company. The performances in the band rotundas will be produced in the same manner as are studio concerts, and item will follow item with the precision Which is characteristic of a * proadcast programme. The first of these open-air broadcast concerts was given in Woolston Park, Christchurch, by the New Brighton Band last Sunday evening, December 28, after church, .