WELLINGTON NOTES

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 13, 4 October 1935, Page 19

WELLINGTON NOTES

Dorothy ‘Clark, Contralto, for N.Z. Tour ISS: DOROTHY CLARK, South African dramatic contralto,’ who ‘has been touring the Australian stations for some time, will arrive in. New Zealand within a fortnight. She is under contract to the New Zealand Broadcasting Board for a tour of. eight. weeks, and her first appearance will be at the 2YA studio on Tuesday, October 15. From South Africa, where her stu-. dent days were rich with the promise that recent years have amply fulfilled, Miss Clark went to London, having won a scholarship which entitled her to a term of four years at the Royal College of Music. There she became. one of the favourite pupils of Maestro Alberto Visetti. So impressed were the. council authorities with her progress that she was awarded the Council Exhibition on the unanimous verdict of the adjudicators, She is a specialist in German lieder and English, French and Italian ‘art song and has been frequently heard as’a soloist with the famous Bach: choir and the Royal Choral Society in London. HICH. one of us would not like to avail himself of the -range of music contained in the shelves of "studio 2YA? There are close on 20,000 re‘cords, although up to the end.of last. week, the system accounted for only 13,711. Many hundreds are. duplicates or triplicates, and the Offi- ' cial count does not include a large: number of records contained in com-. plete book form, such as symphonies, serials, and.so on. But the pride of the library is the ‘‘Black" section. This. consists of about 500 banned records: which for political, moral or spiritual reasons are deemed unworthy for hu‘man digestion. Any record which has’ a flavour of advertising about it is relegated ‘to the "black" library. This represents ‘a negligible percentage of the total number of records which the Wellington station imports. It is estimated: that between 350 and 400 records .are added each month to the shelves, this being necessary in order to keep up to date with. the latest. WHE. New Zealand Broadcasting "Board. is to be congratulated on having arranged for’ the world-famous Spivakovsky-Kurtz Trio to return to this country "on a radio tour for a period of eight: weeks before the end of the year. This engagement’ should be welcomed: enthusiastically, as their long-tour under contract to the Australian Broadcasting .Commission has been’ an outstanding one. There is no finer trio in the-world to-day-they have studied radio technique as closely and intelligently as they have perfected their ensemble playing. Much that is new to New Zealanders will be presented during this. tour, while further revelations of the beauty of known classical works will:be revealed: in each recital. ; ‘OLLOWING in Father’s Yoot- . gteps," heard on a recent Saturday evening ‘from 1YA,- consisted of the work of young men and women, sons and daughters of.famous stage entertainers of former days in England. The "compere," whose function . was

described. recently in a paragraph in the Wellington Notes, was none other than the son-of that peerless ventriloquist Coram. Also among: the young ‘artists was the daughter of Marie Burke, whose photograph appeared in the "Radio Record" last week. This

B.B.C. -yecording will be presented from 2YA on Saturday, October 12, at 8S. It is of about one hour’s dutation.