Prize Money Totals £80 For Those Who Know All "Brows" of Music

Radio Record, 19 June 1936, Page 12

Prize Money Totals £80 For Those Who Know All "Brows" of Music

Details Of New Competition For N.Z. Listeners

in a few weeks’ time the four main national stations start a Music Lovers’ Competition, which will last for.six weeks at each station. Prizes totalling £80 for the whole competition will be. distributed, allowing for £20 for each station. Any listeners who can pull in the four.main stations, however, have the opportunity of entering for the respective competitions from each. Each station will provide a series of six weekly programmes of 10 items each-that is, 60 items from each station-to be broadcast in each case from 8 p.m. to 8.25 p.m., and always on the same night of the week. The first night of the competition will be from 4YA on Wednesday, July 8. This station will then broadcast its competition sessions on the five succeeding Wednesdays, Saturday, July 11, will be the Grst 66 | . ISTENING for profit" will-be the:cry’ when

night of 3YA’s competition series, to be followed on succeeding Saturdays. Next is 1YA, which starts on Monday night, duly 13, and follows every Monday. Wellington’s main station, 2YA, will begin its series on Tuesday night, July 14. Separate programmes will-be provided. throughout the series from each station, and in each case the items will he numbered from 1 to 60 (not 1 to 10 for each night). Each station’s prize-money will be divided as follows: First prize, £10; second prize, £5; third prize, £3; fourth prize, £2. Each evening of the six in the series from each station will contain a mixed bag, ranging from operatic, symphonic and chamber music to rhythm numbers. This will doubtless have the effect. of confusing the lowbrows and confounding the highbrows, but the result will be that listeners will hear items representative of the general prograinmes, and in every case the number will have been heard-prob-

ably several times-over the air from the national stations. . Answer sheets are to be numbered from 1 to 60 and aré:to--be retained until the conclusion of the competition. from’ any one station to which they — refer, Wntries for each station’s competition should be on a separate sheet of paper, and the competitor’s name and address must be supplied therewith. Entries must be posted not later than 10 days after the final night of | the series from the respective stations to which they refer. Five of the six nights from each station will be programmes of recordings, but the fourth programme on each schedule will be provided by a pianist in the respective studios, This plan will make possible the introduction of old ballads and folk tunes and the like

wf cere T entree ensues eeuseessebObet which ordinarily have singers giving words which would be a key to the title of the number. .Other numbers which are not available in suitable re.cordings will also be broadcast as piano solos on this night.- ~ In the event of a Parliamentary broadeast being arranged for any night which will interfere with the regularity of the sequence of the Series listeners will be advised from the stations affected as to when the weekly programme will be presented. There will be definitely no broadcast of these sections of the programmes from any. alternative stations, so listeners distant from the maiy centres will not be robbed of the opportunity of keeping the iequence unbroken. So go to it, you lowbrows, highbrows and nobrows, Vouy salvation rests not in your personally narrow musical \astes but in your observation of the programmes you have encountered.

: "Live" Rhythm In National Relays

ELAYS of flesh and blood dance bands have found such favour with the listening public that the Broadcasting Board is { arranging more of them as time goes on. At present two bands are used for this purpose from Station TYA, namely, Norman Volkner and his Internationals and Lauri Paddi and his band. In Wellington Ossie Cheeseman and the New Majestic Orchestra is relayed from time to time, and from Christchurch the well-known Bailey-Marston Band is used for this purpose,