The PIED PIPER'S PAGE News Views and Comments

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 14, 13 October 1933, Page 14

The PIED PIPER'S PAGE News Views and Comments

LOOKING FORWARD Coming Programme Features 1YA. Oct. 26: Vaudeville Programme (B.B.C.). Nov. 2: "Nuts and Wine" (B.B.0.). Nov. 9: "Songs from the Shows" (B.B.C.). 2YA. Oct. 17: B.B.C. Vaudeville Programme. Oct. 24: Scottish National Progranime. Oct. 31: "Nuts and Wine" (B.B.C.). BYA, Oct. 17: Scottish National Programme (B.B.0.). ; Oct. 23: "Sir Christopher Wren" (B.B.C.). Oct. 31: "Songs from the Shows" (B.B.0.). 4YVA. Oct. 19: "Scottish National Programme" (B.B.0.). Oct. 27: "Postman’s Knock" (B.B.C.). Nov. 3: "Songs from the Shows" J[NCLUDED in the programmes to -be broadcast during the coming week is a generous sprinkling of recordings which have not hitherto been broadeast in the Dominion. The outstanding programmes of the week would appear to be the specially recorded B.B.C. programmes, three of which will be presented during the week, the relay by 2YA of the final Wellington community sing of the season, and the celebrity. entertainment, "Trafalgar," to be broadcast by 4YA ‘on Saturday, October 21, in commemoration ‘of the Battle of Trafalgar.

(SONCERTS of a bright and popular nature are scheduled by all stations for Monday evening. 1YA will relay wrestling from the Town Halt at 9.2 p.m. * * a Two of the B.B.C. recorded programmes are scheduled for Tuesday evening at 8.14 p.m. 3YA. will present the Scottish National Programme, and at 9.2 p.m. 2YA will present the Vaudeville Programme, 1YA schedules a programme of recordings, and from 4YA listenérs will be entertained by the St. Kilda Band, with Miss Eva Scott (soprano),

and Mr. Joseph Holm (tenor) as assisting artists. ; * » s "PHE Wednesday evening programmes are of a light and popular nature and many excellent numbers are scattered through them. 2YA’s recorded programme includes quite a numbet of recordings not hitherto broadcast in the Dominion. Special features will be a brief recorded recital by Norman Allin, England’s premier basso; Richard Tauber in three of his latest recordings, and the band of his Majesty’s Coldstream Guards in a selection of airs from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "Ruddigore." es e ® No doubt many listeners will have their sets tuned to 2YA on Thursday evening, when the station will relay from the Town Hall the final community sing of the season: The programme promises excellent entertainment for those who find enjoyment in this type of radio fare. Mr. Harry WW. Coney, the popular baritone, will make a welcome reappearance at 1YA, and the Baileys will be heard in ramatie and musical sketches, 3YA’s programme of recordings will include several new releases, and 4YA schedwes the "Scottish National Programme," and a well varied selection of recordings. ‘ * a % A CORNISH song scena, "The Floral Dance," is the principal item on 1YA’s programme for Friday evening. A selection of the latest recordings will provide the radio fare from 2YA.

The studio concert to be broadeast by 8YA reads well and should prove tg be, excellent entertainment. 4¥A appears to offer the best entertainment for the eyening-a programme by the Dunedin Orphans’ Club. Some of Dunedin’s leading artists are featured on this programme, which should prove to be one of the most enjoyable of the week. * a 8 N commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgat, 2YA and 4¥A will present appropriate programmes, The programme for 4YA will be ‘one of the best programmes of the week. It will consist of a relay from the Dunedin Town Hall of a celebrity entertainment by prominent Dunedin artists. This programme will be relayed by station 3YA. 1YA’s programme for this evening is of a light and popular nature, consisting of recordings, with incidental baritone solos by Mr. Gerard Peters, and items by the Marelle Instrumental Sextet. The second of the series of dramatic trials being broadcast by the four YA stations on Saturday evenings will be presented at 9.30 p.m, The case which listeners are asked to adjudicate upon on this occagion is a breath of promise action, in which a young girl claims £5000 damages from a wealthy business man who, it is alleged, broke off his engagement to her without justification. a me & HE after-church concerts on Sunday evenings are all of a high standard. Listeners to 1YA

will be entertained with a special feature, "An Hour with the Tenors." This feature, which was broadcast some weeks ago by 2YA, proved one of the most popular broadcasts for some considerable time past. 2YA schedules a very attractive programme by the 2YA Orchestra with Miss Molly Atkinson (mezzo soprano), and Mr. W. B. Brough (baritone) as the assisting artists. The outstanding feature of 3YA’s programme will be the reading by Professor James Shelley of some of the dramatic lyrics of Robert Browning. This programme will be rélayed by, 4YA, .

NEW ZEALANDER who is appearing at present in the national programmes in Australia is Miss Louis Homfrey, a singer with 2 wide experience of radio entertainment in Australia, and who was heard over the British Broadcasting Corporation’s network during her visit to London. She possesses a rare voice of remarkably low register, and is accurately described as a feminine baritone. R. PERCY GRAINGER, the eminent Australian composer-pianist, has made a very generous contribution to music in Australia in the form of a gift of a museum of music. The museum will be erected in the grounds of the Melbourne University at Mr. Grainger’s expense. The architecture and the nature of the exhibits will not be decided until Mr. Grainger has had an opportunity of discussing such matters with interested parties. Mr. Grainger intends to pay for the upkeep of.the building, and in his will he will make provisions for concerts at which his own works, and those of his contemporaries will be kept before the public for an indefinite period. GARGRNT'S charcoel portrait of Mr. Grainger, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and other paintings and drawings associated with music,

will be placed in the museum. The piano_on which Mr. Grainger practised in Melbourne from six to twelve rears, will be included in the exhibits as well as various instruments on which he made his first experiments 0 used at important first appearances. Mr, Grainger is making arrangements whereby a wide variety of original musical manuscripts and relics will be preserved in the museum. In addition there will be records of English folk songs, Spanish gipsy music and Oriental, Madagascar, and South Seis music. Manuscripts of Grieg, the Norwegian composer, who for a number of years was a closé friend of Mr. Grainger, his watch, and other Grieg relics will form a separate collection, As the museum grows in importance it is bound to attract a great deal of attention, and it is hoped that, eventually, the collection will be unique in the world. . x 2 s e ALTHOUGH listeners hear most of the recordings which find their way into the library of the Broadcasting Board there are many which, for various reasons, are not heard over the air. Some are not bad, but are not considered of sufficient entertainment value to be included in programmes. Some are rubbish, with gleams of gold, and some are too "risque" for programme purposes. During the past few years one of the Australian stations, 3DB, has collected a large number of this type of record and has decided to make use of them in a late night session from 11 to 11.80 p.m. on week nights.