RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 5

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES AUSTRALIAN PIANIST LENGTHY BROADCAST PLAY BY ALL-WAVE Between 8 and 10.10 p.m. to-night IYA will relay from the Town Hall a charity concert, arranged by the Broadcasting Service, at which Eileen Joyce, the famous young pianist, will make her first appearance before Auckland audiences. Miss .Joyce will be heard in solo numbers and in concerted items with the specially augmented Studio Orchestra under the baton of Harold Baxter. The assisting artists will include Dawn Harding, contralto, and Len Barnes, baritone. Prominently featured on the programme will be .Rachmaninoff's "Concerto in C Minor No. 2," Sibelius' "Romance in D Flat" and "Viennese" waltz.

Requiring almost an hour for its presentation, Horton Giddy's radio play, '.'ln the Shadow," to be broadcast by IYA next Monday, sets an unusual task in characterisation, so many different parts having to be portrayed. The story is set niainl.v on board a British war vessel oil a foreign station. The play is being produced by J. 10. Mackle. The ever-popular Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Choir will •be heard again from IYA on Tuesday, their numbers including "When Evening's Twilight," "Song of the Jolly Roger," "Passing By," "0 Wasn't That a Widfe River," and a group of sea chanties. Wednesday's chamber music programme will open with an offering by Dorothea Ryan, pianist, and Harold Taylor, 'cellist, of Beethoven's Sonata for Violincello and Piano, Op. 69.

Jasclia and Tossy Spivakovsksv are featured over the Australian National chain at 10.35 p.m. this evening, when they are to play Beethoven's "Spring Sonata for Piano and Violin, Op. 24." After a brief interval this recital will be followed by an adaptation of the well-known comedy, " Brewster's Millions." On Fridav at .10 p.m. the M alvern Municipal and Tramways Band will present an hour's programme of solo and band numbers and this will be followed by a special feature, "Here, There and Everywhere," a half-hour of short-wave items recorded from oversens programmes. On Saturday at 10 p.m. the chain will broadcast a programme, "One Thousand Voices," originating from the school choirs of Adelaide. Another well-known comedy "Meet Sairev Gamp" will follow at 11.15 p.m. Sunday's national programme, from the Sydney studio is to consist of gems from oratorio, at 9.50 p.m., and a recital at 10.30 by Iris de Cairos Rego, pianist.

Apart from an announcement, some months ago, that the work of analysis of the March questionnaires was proceeding, nothing further has been heard of the ballot by which many listeners hoped to have the broadcasting programmes moulded more to their tastes. Admittedly the officials are confronted with a task of some magnitude, but it was expected that the summary would have been made public long before this. The early publication of the total figures is due to listeners, who expect the programmes to be cast, after due regard to the wishes of minorities, in accordance with the desires of the majorities.

Over 1800 entries were received for the music-lovers' competition held recently by the National Broadcasting Service, three of the contestants correctly naming 55 of the 60 excerpts put on the air in the Wellington series. In the other provincial offerings the winners averaged 51 out of the total. The first prize in t;'ie Auckland series went to a Timaru listener. Apart from other considerations, this would seem to indicate that IYA has good coverage over the lower end of the South Island during evening periods. It is not, as a Southerner would have it, a measure of the musical appreciation of Aucklanders that no entrant from the Queen City succeeded in securing a higher place than third.

In the early stages of radio the Americans manufactured a single type of valve, the once well-known 201 A, which was virtually an all-purpose fitment. It was common to find these in all sockets of a six-valve receiver. At that time the British manufactured specialty valves of many diverse types, each type suited to a particular function so that it was not uncommon to find four different types in a four-valve set. Later the Americans followed the lead of the British with a vengeance until at the present time four out of five tubes in a set arc of a different pattern. Mr. Owen Harris, a British radio research engineer, has developed a new type valve which he claims will operate with equal success though carrying out entirely different functions, according to its position. Should his claims be substantiated the science will have progressed substantially toward standardisation, and set owners will need to keep only one "spare" for emergencies.

Late reports indicate that the scophony television receiver, which forms its imago by mechanical means, has so far lacked the brilliance of the cathode ray electrical scanner. It is. however, hoped to overcome this disadvantage by the use of a more intense light source, so that the projected picture may bo subjected to greater enlargement and yet retain sufficient brilliancy. It is claimed for the scophony system that the component strips or lines which blend together to form tlio picture do so in a superior manner to the sharply defined strokes of tlio cathode ray, but at the same time it is admitted that the new method will not substantially lower the production cost of television sets.

FROM IYA I To-day.—B p.m.. charity concert, featuring [ Eileen Joyce, pianisto, T>o\vn ITardintr, confinite, Len Barnes, baritone, and flip augmeiitori studio orchestra conducted by Harold Baxtor; 10.10 to 11, dance music. Tomorrow: 8 i).in., recording, "Thinsrs to Conio"; 8.9, Honcgger's "Pastoral d'Efe"; 8.33, Alexander Brailowsky, pianist, Chopin's "d'Adioux." Schubert's "Impromptu." Liszt's "Rhapsodic, No. 12," and de Falla's "Ritual Fire Dance"; 0.5, talk, Dr. L. 11. Rriggs. "Recent Advances in Chemistry"; 9.20, Prokofieff's Concerto in P Major for Violin and Orchestra; 9.-10, Madeleine Grey, soprano; 9.-18, "King Lear" Overture; 10 to 11, music and melody. Saturday: S p.m., Gilbert and Sullivan hour, featuring "The Mikado"; 9.5 to 1.1.30, modern dance programme, with interludes and sports nummary at 10 p.m. Sunday: 11 a.m., niorniiisr service from St. Luke's Presbyterian Church; 7 p.m., evening service from St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral; 8.30, relay, Auckland Municipal Band concert, including; "Freedom's Triumph march, "Oberon" overture, "Samson," "A Strauss Garland" and "Pallet F/gyptien." Tlio piccolo solo, "A Message of Spring" will he played by llal. McLennan. Monday: S p.m.. recordintr, "Wedding Danco Waltz"; 8.5, "In the Shadow," a radio play bv Jlorlon Giddy, produced by J. 10. Mackle; 8.5(1, "Magyar Memories"; 9.5, wrestling relay; 10 to 11, music and melody. Tuesday: s p.m., Auckland Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Choir; H. 7, Kb and Zch; 8.15, Iho Choir; "The Voice 'of the People"; 8.28, the Choir; 8.31, Japanese Ilousebov; 8.17, Music Hound the Canipfire; 9,5. talk, 11. G. Ilell, "World Affairs"; 9.20 to 11, danco programme. Wednesday: H p.m., Dorothea Ryan and Harold Taylor present Sonata for 'Cello and Piano, Op. <>9 (Beethrnen); 8.20, Winifred Hill, soprano, "The Nightingale,' "The Sleeper" and "Morgen"; 8.-15, Studio Siring Orchestra, Mozart's "Kloine Nacht Musik"; 9.5, talk, W. Bird, M.A., "Songs of tho Maori," followed by recordings;' 10 to 31, music and melody.