Burns Concerts from all Stations

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 27, 16 January 1931, Page 2

Burns Concerts from all Stations

Studio and Relayed Programmes SCOTTISH concerts to mark the 172nd anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will be broadcast by all YA stations on Saturday evening, January 24. 1YA and 3YA have each arranged studio programmes, while 2YA and 4YA will broadcast on relay concerts which have been organised by the local Caledonian Societies. Highland pipers will, contribute to all programmes and Scots distributed throughout New Zealand, from the North Cape to the Bluff, will revel in the music of peace and war for ever associated with tartan kilts. The bagpipes will bring back to listeners many sad and proud memories. The programmes will be typically Scottish, but they will appeal to all. The writings of the famous ploughman poet, while immortal to. all Scotsmen, play no small part in the life of the British people in general, As Sir James Barrie once said: ""We have all to take the kerb for the exciseman.’ Poems composed by Burns are held dear by all and in songs such as "Auld Lang Syne" the English and the Irish join as ‘lustily as the Scots, laugh as heartily over "The Deil’s Awa," are thrilled by ‘Scots Wha Hae,"" and are touched by the pathos of his tender love poems. | Who does not appreciate the sentiment in "John Anderson My Jo, John," the * ‘Address to the Deil,"’ the story of "Twa Dogs," the address to a field mouse turned out of its s home by the plough, or "Tam o’ Shanter’’> Loos While winds frae aff Ben Lomond blow, TL. if me doon tae pass the time, Aw’ bar the doors wi’ drivin’ snaw, An. spin a@ verse or twa o" rhyme, An’ hing us ower the ingle, In hamely wasilin’ jingle.