Keen Interest Aroused in Music Lovers' Competition

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 35, 11 March 1932, Page 5

Keen Interest Aroused in Music Lovers' Competition

BY the time this is in circulation the first stages of the Music-Lovers’ Coupetition will be under way. From 1¥YA on Tuesday the first section was launched, followed by 2YA on Wednesday, 3YA on Thursday, while 4+YaA will release its section on Monday. The preliminary announcement that we made last week has excited a good deal of interest, and there has been much scanning of the speciai list of numbers from which the excerpts are to be chosen, which appeare:? in last week’s issue. From week to week during the currency of the Conmpetition these lists will appear, so that competitors will be able to refresu their memories of the actual titles of the numbers that are used. Everyone has had the experience of being quite familiar with a tune, but just not able on the spur of the moment to name it. The publication of the list is designed to remedy that position, and act as a refresher to memories otherwise excellent. In addition to the special prizes awarded by the Wellington radio dealer. and the Auckland radio dealers to supplement the cash prizes awarded in connection with the Competition itself, we are now able to announce that the Dunedin Radio Dealers’ Association has donated the sum of £5, to b» awarded in the form of orders on members of the association for radio goods. This donation will permit the allocation of special prizes in connection with the 4YA Competition as follows: First, special order for radio goods for £3; second, special order for radio goods for £1 10s.; third, specia! order for radio goods for 10s. The Competition, as already announced, is to extend over a period of ten weeks, and, judging by the preliminary interest shown, will prove « very welcome innovation in the test it will apply of listeners’ familiarity with well-known melodies and tunes. This week’s list of words appears on the inside front cover, and u specimen entrance sheet on this page.