PERSONALITIES ..ON THE AIR..
oe sess ates rs T the age of twelve, Gladys Swarthout was presented in her first | recital by her singing in Kansas City. In her fourth song there was a high C -which had to be reached, and held. Gladys missed getting the note the first time, but beginning her song all over again she brilliantly succeeded the second time and the audience applauded. The singer ‘eonfesses she never had sweeter applause. People who heard. the child at that concert and _ 7 a |
s | ) Je z ana admired her grit as well as her talent, offered to lend the Swarthouts money for her musical education. The very next day, a grand piano arrived at their home to replace the old upright. And Gladys’s training began in earnest. 4YA listeners will hear Gladys Swarthout, soprano, on Sunday afternoon, January 8.
| TOUCHED In _ his songALL success "After HEARTS! the Ball" Charles . K. Harris found in 1890 a Hittle gold mine. Over three million copies of the song were sold in America, alone. Harris died in 1930 in New York, aged 65. He also composed "Break the News to Mother." The story of "After the Ball" concerns 2 young man, who at the request of his sweetheart when at a ball, goes out to get her a drink (how things have changed!). On his. return he finds her in animated conversation with a stranger. The young man rants and fumes and refuses to listen to any explanations, then and there breaking off the engagement. Years later, when he is old and grey, he learns that his former sweetheart had died of 1a broken heart, and that the young cf stranger was none other than ‘her
brother. Such was the elaborately emotional song with a captivating waltz refrain that played havoc with the heart-strings of our dear parents and grandparents, to say
nothing of certain bachelor uncles and spinster aunts! "After the Ball-Waltz" by Charles K. Harris, will be heard from 1YA on Wednesday, January 11. Edith Lorand’s Orchestra will play the waltz, and a few tender bits are exploited by -Edith herself on her violin. PEOPLE WHO With his finger READ me a go TO LEARN 2" years as regards best-sellers and popular books, the 2YA book reviewer (who recently completed 11 years’ continuous service) believes that the general standard of the writing today is higher than ever before, and if there would appear to be fewer authors as great as Dickens and Trackeray it is because there are sO many more who are outstanding. He thinks that the general taste is improving and that more people read with objects other than a means of escape than ever before. The best-sellers of to-day are certainly not fiction. The 2YA Book Reviewer will be heard on Thursday, January 12, HYMN OF When John A Bacchus Dykes, a young YorkCOMEDIAN shireman, went up to Cambridge he hecame very prominent in
musieal circles, and at the first eoncerts of the University Musical Society, which he helped to found, he attained much popularity with his singing of humorous songs. He abandoned that type of singing in 1847, when he was ordained. He turned his attention to sacred music and wrote over 300 hymn-tunes, of which a-few will never die while hymn-singing continues. One of these, "Lead, Kindly Light," was composed in August, 1865, when the author was walking in the streets of London. Newman said Dykes had made his hymn popular with his tune. . 8YA listeners will hear this favourite tune played by the Woolston Brass Band on Monday, January 9 POPULARITY it has been 'S NOT wel said by Proessor Berger, VU LGARITY "popularity is the parent of classicality (if the music in question eontaing the elements of endurance). Classical merely means ‘the best of its class’... and popularity does not mean vulgarity." Into this category fall "Songs of the Fair," "The Holy Child" and the appealing "Mvensong." Although known principally as a song-writer, the late Easthope Martin first attracted attention with an organ solo "Evensong." Published in 1911, it at once leapt into popularity, and has since been arranged for piano, yoice, violin, and every conceivabie -eombination of instruments. Like manv another composer, Martin’s
health was undermined by privation and struggle in his early years, which brought about his premature death in 1925. In common with other minor composers, he left us a, few gems of simplicity and sweetness, of which "Hvensong" may be eounted one of his tenderest. "Evensong," played by the Grand Hotel Orchestra, will be heard in 3YA’s dinner music session on Thursday, January 12, THEY JOKED The interest FOR Be ne winte . eorge the Fi QUEEN and ‘Queen Mary took in the musichall world has been continued by the new King and Queen. This is the Palladium’s annual night of pride-the Royal Variety Performance. In 1934 Géorge Robey headed the bill and obliged with "Have You Ever Heard of a Thing-a-me-bob?" (the more demure version). The most telling turn, however, came from Elsie and Doris Waters, of wireless fame: Elsie: "’E’s got lumbago." Dovis: "’As ’e ’ad it before?" Blsie: "No,.’e always ’as it behind." The inimitable Elsie and Doris Waters, comediennes, will be heard in 1YA’s music, mirth and melody session on Wednesday, January 11. .
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Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 8
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