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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 28 December 1934, Page 37

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MELBOURNE NATIONAL STATION --- N 800 K,c,

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30. 9.0: National talk. See 2FC. 9.20: "The News Behind the News," by "The Watchman," . 9.45; National programme, See 2FC,

MONDAY,.DECEMBER 31. 10.0: Unit One: A programme of international celebrities, with special annotations by. Rudolf Himmer. 12.20: News session. 12.30; Unit Two: Latest dance music, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1. 8.30: Dinner music. 10.0: National programme... See 2FC, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2. 10.0: National programme. Unit One: The ninth of the series of lecture-re-citals by. the world-famous pianistcomposer, Percy Grainger, ‘Various Systems of Harmony." Illustrations: Early BWnglish, "Fowles jn the Frith" (1240) (tenor voice, bass voice) ; similarity. of Chinese harmony and early Huropean organum; five-tone harmony (Yasser) (harmonium); 13th Century English fauxbourdon (Beata Viscera) (gramophone); 13th Century English melodious polyphony, ‘"Alleluya psSallat"’ (gramophone); _ polymelodic harmony in Java (gramophone); early Huropean discords (de Machaut, etc.); 16th Century " concords, Le Jeune’s "Pretty Swallow" (six voices); late 19th Century concords, Oyril Scott’s "An Old Song Pnded" and "The Garden of SoulSympathy" (piano); 16th Century, contrasted concords and _ discords: Palestrina’s "Mori quasi il mio core" ' (four mixed voices) ; drone-harmony in Africa, Scotland, Norway (piano, lecturer); Russian folk-harmonisation, Lineva’s "The Flowers That Bloomed in the Field" (four mixed voices) ; Russian chureh-harmonisation, Rachmaninoff’s "Laud Ye the Name of the Lord" (eight mixed voices); negro folk-harmonisation, Curtiss-Burlin’s "Lullaby" (eight voices) and "Listen to de Lambs" (four men’s voices) ; hybrid harmony from Rarotonga and Madagascar (gramophone) ; "unnatural" harmonisation (in which the harmonies, whether concordant or discordant, run counter to the harmonie suggestions of the melody) (examples, Grieg, Delius, Grainger, on piano); "Atonal" harmony, Schonberg (piano). 11.5: Unit Two: Alfred and Vera FieldFisher in original comedy sketches; Cedric Zahara, entertainer; Rita Hilton, soubrette ; ‘Macduff Williams, novelty violin; Dance Orchestra. 11.50: Unit Three : The works of Haydn Wood, by the A.B.C. (Melbourne) . Concert Orchestra. Assisting artist, Tom Downie, tenor, Dance Orchestra. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3. 8.30: Dinner music. 10.0: National programme. See 2FC. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4. 10.0: T'wo prize plays: "The Puppet," by James Bradford Westerman. The play which won the first prize in the recent play competition conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. "Light Breaking Through,’ by Joan Harvey. Miss Harvey is the Victorian author, who won the third prize in the same competition. Productions, Frank D. Clewlow. 11.15: Unit Two: Ten minutes with the "Paraphrasing Five," whose numbers will include "Mighty Lak’ a Rose" (Nevin) ; All Through the Night’® (Old Welsh); "The Great Awakeing" (Kramer). 11,25: Interlude (r.). ii ‘30: Unit Three: The tenth of the éeries of lecture-recitals by the worldfamous pianist-composer, Percy Grain-

ger, "Songs with Instrumental Accompaniment." Illustrations: German (1460) "Aus fahr ich hin" (baritone voice and viola); Lyonel Power (1420), "Anima "mea" for mezzo-so-prano and three strings; "G.. Dufay (1400-1474), "Softly the Day and the. ‘Season Falls Asleep"’- (baritone or mezzo-soprano voice and three strings) ; (Heinrich Finck (1445-1527), "O Schones Weib," tenor voice and three strings; F. Corteccia (died 1538), "O Glorious Go¥len Bra," tenor voice, two violas, two ’cellos; Paul Hindemith, "Die ‘Junge Magda" (first section) for mezzo-soprano and. string quartet (flute,:clarinet ad. lib.) ; Roger Quilter. "Weep Ye No More Sad Fountains" ‘(example of perfect modern song). SATURDAY, JANUARY 5. 8.30: Dinner music. 10.0: National programme. See 2FC.