RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22544, 8 October 1936, Page 5

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES PLAYS TO THE FOREFRONT FINE MUSICAL OFFERINGS BY ATiL-WAVE "Echoes of Ulster," a 8.8.C. recorded programme of characteristic music and humour from Northern Ireland, is featured in this evening's concert session from IYA. On Friday the programme will include a presentation by Vincent Aspey, solo violinist, and the studio orchestra, of the Max Bruch Concerto No. 1 in G Minor and the rendition by Dora Judson and Madeleine Wilcox of the "Arcnsky Silhouettes" for two pianos. Wednesday's chamber music session will commence with Handel's Double Sonata for Two Violins and Piano, presented by Dorothea Ryan, pianist, and Haydn Murray and Vincent Aspey, violinists. Jt is to include also a recorded presentation by Alfred Cortot and Jacques Tliibault, of Cesar Kranck's Sonata in A Major for Piano and Violin. Again, radio plays, so popular with listeners, are prominently featured in the programmes of IYA. On Sunday evening, between 9.5 and 10.15 p.m., " The Inspector - General," Gogol's famous farce comedy, adapted for broadcasting by John F. Peters, is to be broadcast. The play has a Russian sotting and the cast will include Mrs. Nello Porter, Trixie Abel, Cam Lawrie, Allan McSkimniing, H. Dutton, Hon Bowie, Peter Bathurst, F. Archibald and the producer, Mr. J. M. Clark. Monday's concert programme will open with the radio play "An Ambiguous Escape," written by F. M. Cornford and produced by Norah Whineray and party, and will inclime also the recorded thriller "The Case of the Stage Tragedy," from the presentation by George Edwards and Company. On Sunday evening at 8.30 2YA is scheduled to broadcast a complete musical presentation, the text by da Ponte and music by Mozart. The programme which is from recordings by eminent artists and the orchestra and chorus of the Glyndebourne Mozart Opera Festival, will require 2} hours for its presentation. On Tuesday thy Wellington station will devote most of its evening concert session to a Grieg recital, including vocal and instrumental recordings and renditions by the studio orchestra. At 8.40 Mr. Tom L. Mills will deliver a talk, "A Famous Man 1 Knew—Sir George. Gre3'." Wednesday's programme from 2YA features the radio sketch "Playgoers," a domestic episode presented by W. S. Wauchop.

"Forest," a tone poem for orchestra, composed by Douglas G. Lilburn, has been awarded first prize in the Percy Grainger competition for New Zealand compositions. The author, a 20-year-old musician, is resident in Christchurch, where he is studying under Dr. J. C. Bradshaw. In his report the judge stated that he had no hesitation in placing the entries in order of merit and that the winning entry outshone all others, both in matter and mode of presentation. The author sketched out his composition during an 11-day holiday at the Peel Forest, South Canterbury, and has said that he is by no means satisfied with the composition as yet, a most modest attitude in view of the high praise bestowed upon it by the overseas judge. Evening is decidedly not the best time for short-wave reception in this country, but there are a good many stations that can be heard most nights and at good volume. On the .'U-inetre band there is 3ME, ZBW, VPD2, DJA and 3Llt bunched closely together, the Javanese, and Japanese occasionally, on slightly higher frequencies. The 25metre band is usually quiet after GSD shuts down, but on 20 metres there is a good deal of chatter from Australian, American and foreign amateur phones. There is another group of broadcasting stations on the 19-metre band, but only two of these, and in particular, the German DJB, are at good volume. Still lower, on 17 metres, another German, DJE, comes in at sufficient volume for really worthwhile reception, but the British station GSG, which starts at 11 p.m., is disappointing. There is still another regular Empire station in GSH, on 13.97 metres, but few except the most modern receivers will tune to such a low wave-length.

In its announcement the 8.8.C. stresses the experimental nature of its television programmes. The equipment operated at Alexandra Palace includes three plants, the first, an ultra shortwave sound transmitter on a frequency of 41.5 megacycles, or 7.23 metres, and the other two television transmitters operating on 45 megacycles, or 6.67 metres. The television plants feed an aerial erected on a lattice mast 220 feet above the tower of the Palace, the j aerial for the sound transmitter being I erected lower down. The intention of J the 8.8.C. is to provide, in the words of the Television Committee, "an extended trial of the two systems, under comparable conditions, by installing them side by side at a sta'tion in London, where they should be used alternately and not simultaneously." To secure ample scope the 8.8.C. is taking over the Alexandra Theatre and has completed arrangements for outdoor television in the adjacent grounds. FROM IYA To-day.—7.4o, talk, Professor W. A. Sewell. "The Consequences of War"; 8 p.m., 8.8.C. recorded programme, "Echoes of Ulster"; 8.47, recording, "Tunes from the Talkies"; 9.5, recorded talk, "The Conquest of the Air"; 9.25, "The Cossack March"; 0.28. Mrs. H. RefTell, soprano, "Sing-, Sing, Blackbird" and "The Reason"; 9.34, Charles Hayes, cornefist, "Miranda"; 9.45, Mrs. H. Reffelh soprano, "Love is Meant to Make Us Glad," "I Wonder if Love is a Dream"; 9.51, Charles If ayes, cornetist, '"Neath Austral Skies" and "Tired Hands"; 10 to 11, an hour with Hilly Cotton and his hand. To-morrow: 8 p.m., Vincent Aspey, violinist, and Studio Orchestra present the Max Bruch Concerto No. .1 in O Minor; 8.30, Madame Annette Char>; man mezzo-soprano, scene from "Achilles" and "The Vain Suit"; 8.44, Dora Judson and Madoleine Wilcox present "Arcnsky Silhouettes" for two pianos; 9.20, Studio Orchestra, "La Navaraisse," and at 9.50 "Patrio" overture; 10 to 11, music and melody. Saturday: 8 p.m., the National Four Vocal Quartet present "Two Roses," "Sleepy Hollow" and "For a Dream's Sake"; B.IG, Sunday Mowbray, pianist, "Finnish Folk Song," "Charminp: Landscape" and "Album Leaf"; 8.31, Doris Bransgrove, soprano, " Vissi d'Arte," "Muselta's Waltz SonK" and "Una Voce Poco"; 8.45, Trevor de Clive Lowe, 'cellist, "Lament," "Minuet" and "Traumerci"; 9.11. Consort Quartet, "Tales from Vienna Woods" and "Victoria and Her Hussar"; 10.10 to 11.15, dance programme. Sunday: II a.m. morning service from Epsom Methodist Church; 3.30 p.m., "The Story Behind Famous Hymns"; 7 p.m., evening service from St. David's Presbyterian Church; 8.30, Mozart's Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra; 9.5, "Tho Inspector-General," Gogol's farcecomedy presented by the J. M. Clark Players Monday: 8 p.m.. radio play. An Ambisrnons Escape," produced by Norah Whineray 8.20, recorded feature. The Case of the Stage Tragedy"; 9.5, wrestling relay; 10 to 11, music and melody. Tuesday; 8 p.m. IntraH's Hawaiian Duo, "Aloha, Beloved and "Souvenirs"; 8.5, "The Voice of the Foople ; 8 11. Stowart Harvey, baritone, The Stockrider's Song" and "The Star ; 8.10, Eb and Zeb; 8/25, lngall's Hawaiian Duo; 8.34, Japanese Houseboy episode; 8.47. music round the campfire; 9.5. talk, Professor Arnold Wall, "Dictionaries"; 9.20 to 11. dance music Wednesday: 8 p.m., Dorothea R.van. pianist. Haydn Murray and Vincent Aspoy. violinists, present Handel's Double Sonata for two violins and piano; 8.25, recording. Cesar Franck Sonata in A Major; 9.5, recorded talk, "Songs of the Maori"; 9.25, 8.8.C. recorded programme, "Monsieur Beaucaire. ' adapted from Booth Tarkington's novel; 10.30 to 11 pm... music and melody.