RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22823, 2 September 1937, Page 20

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES RECEPTION PROBLEMS THE PROGRESS OF TELEVISION BY ALL-WAVE Dave Howard, saxophonist, and the band of tlio Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment, are featured in this evening's concert session from IYA. Included in the band numbers is the cornet duct "Two Little Finches," which is to bo played by Fred Bowes and Alan Morton. Saturday's concert session is to opon with an instrumental and vocal recital by tho Euterpo Trio and will include solos by John Bond, bass-baritone, and Evelyn Gordon, contralto. From 9.5 to 11.30 the station will offer a complete old-time dance programme, tho interludes featuring Dave Howard and his saxophone. The Municipal Band concert, which is to be relayed by IYA on Sunday evening, will include items by J. Gasparich and Hal. McLennan, flute, and Don Day, French horn, will give Titl's tuneful "Serenade." Wednesday's chamber music programme includes Lekeu's Sonata for Piano and Violin, which is to be played by Haydn Murray and Owen Jensen.

A relay oF the throe recalls in the piano scholarship of the Wellington Competitions Society's 1937 festival will bo made by 2YA, commencing at S this evening. At 9.20 p.m., over 4YA, ''Masterpieces of Music," with thematic illustrations and comments by Dr. T. Vernon Griffiths, superintendent of music at King Edward College, is to be broadcast. Essie Ackland and Reginald Morphew, whoso engagement with the National Broadcasting Service is nearing its close, will contribute short recitals in to-morrow's concert session from Christchurch. On Sunday at 3 p.m! Wellington will put on tho air a complete musical presentation of "Princess Ida." In tho after-church session 3YA will offer a recording of Bizet's "Carmen." On Wednesday at 9.5 p.m. both 2YA and 3YA will broadcast an 'inter-varsity debate between Victoria and Canterbury University Colleges, the subject being "That the North Island has Contributed More to the Advancement of New Zealand than the South."

The National Broadcasting Service is proceeding with its plans for the importation of notable artists. Last week it announced the engagement of Paul Schramm, pianist, Barbara Lano, soprano, and Cuthbert Matthews, baritone. Now comes word that Browning Mummery has signed a contract for a tour of the main stations. He is no newcomer to tho microphone, either here or overseas, and he has gained enviable recognition both in opera and as a singer of ballads. During the past three years he has been engaged in broadcasting in Australia, whence ho arrived here last year under an engagement to tour the YA stations. Many listeners will, however, remember him for his appearances at Auckland with Melba and with the opera company sponsored by J. C. Williamson in 1919-20.

With two transmitters at Washford Cross, one of 70 k.w. for the Welsh programme and the other of 50 k.w. for the West of England programme, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been forced to make a number of wave-length changes in its other broadcast stations. The new which came into force in July is:— Droitwich, 150 k.w., 200 kilocycles; Moorside Edge, 70 k.w. and 668 k.c.; Westerglen, 70 k.w., and Burghead, 60 k.w., both on 767 k.c.; Washford Cross, 70 k.w., and Pennion, 5 k.w., both on 804 k.c.; Brookrran's Park, 70 k.w. and - 877 k.c.; Lisnagarvey, 100 k.w. and 977 k.c.; Droitwich, 70 k.w. and 1013 k.c.; Washford Cross, 50 k.w. and 1050 k.c.:, Newcastle, 1 k.w. and 1122 k.c.; Brookman's Park, Moorside Edge and Westerglen, each 20 k.w. and all on 1149 k.c.; Aberdeen, 1 k.w. and 1255 k.c.; Plymouth, 3 k.w., and Bournemouth, 1 k.w., both on 1474 k.c. It w r ill be noted that the British Broadcasting Corporation has successfully overcome the difficulties of operating as many as three transmitters simultaneously on the one wave-length.

The technical manager of an Auckland radio firm is said to have declared, as a result of a Dominion-wide tour, that New Zealand is by no means an ideal" country for radio reception. His first complaint is that many districts, owino; to geographical conditions and otner more controllable factors, are poorly served and his other major complaint is that man-made static is rife in many localities. In this connection he absolved the Wellington trams from blame, but declared that the Christchurch and Auckland trams took pride of place for the electrical disturbances they created. He ended by expressing the opinion that, although the present aim appeared to bo quality programmes, the technical problems associated with proper coverage would have to be tackled eventually.

- FROM IYA To-day.—B p.m.. continuity, "Famous Rivers—The Mississippi," with Audrey Allen as narrator; 9.5, reserve period; 0.20, Band of the Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment; 9.27, Dave Howard, saxophonist; 9.33, the band; 0.48, Dave Howard; 9.54, "Two Little Finches," a cornet duct played by Fred Bowes and Allan Morton; 10 to 11, dance music. To-morrow: 8 p.m., an hour of reading and music with D'Arcy Cresswell as narrator; 9.5, Tschaikowsky's "Francesca da Rimini; 9.21 Madame Aileen Johns, mezzosoprano, "Ailerseclen" and "Ruhe, Meine Seelo," and at 9.31, "Hoimkehr" and "Zueignung ; 9.35, Stravinsky's "Fire-Bird" suite; 10 to 11, music and melody. Saturday: 2.10, commentary on Rugby test; O p.m., review of play in Rugby Test: 8 p.m. Euterpo Instrumental and Vocal Trio, "Let Me Wander Not Unseen," "The Witch's Dance," "Lullaby," "Scottish Dances" and "The Russian Nightingalo"; 8..21, recording, "Song of the Waterfall"; 8.24, .Tohn Bond, bass-bantone, "Wanderer's Song," "I Envy Not a Monarch's Fate," "Tho Song of the Pipes" and "The Green-Eyed Dragon"; 6.39, Evelyn Gordon, contralto, "I Heard You Singing, "A Maori Slumber Song,". "An Enskay Love Lilt" and "No, Sir!"; 8.51. "In Memory of Franz Schubert"; 9.5 to 11.30, old-time dance programme with Dave Howard in saxophone numbers. Sunday: 11 a.m., relay from Epsom Methodist Church; 7 p.m., relay from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church; 8.30, relay Municipal Band concert, featuriiip- 'j. Gasparich, baritone, and Hal. McLennan, flautist, and Don Day, French horn, who are to play Titl's Serenade. Monday: 8 pin "The Queen's Lace Handkerchief"; 8.0 "Jimmie Taylor, English comedian; 8.18, Dave Howard, saxophonist; 8.30, dramatic recital (recorded); 8.40, talk, Lily Krug, "Good-bye, Now Zealand and Australia' ; 9.5, wrestling relay; 10 to 11, music and melody. Tuesday: 8 p.m., Siede's Intermezzo; 8.5, Japanese Jlouseboy; 8.18. "The Story of Madame Curie"; 8.33. Jimmie Taylor, comedian; 8.45, Eb and Zeb; 8.51, "Review of Troops at Night"; 0.5, talk, Professor R. M. Algie, "International Law"; 9.20 to 11, dance music. Wednesday: 8 p.m., Mozart's Quartet in D Minor; 8.18, Dawn Harding, mezzo-soprano. "Blow, Blow' Thou Winter Wind," "Dream Valley," "Love Will Find a Way." "Tho Naiad" and "The Feast of the Lanterns"; 8.31. Haydn Murray, violin, and Owen Jensen, piano, Lekou's Sonata for violin and piano; 0.5, talk, V. F. Fisher, "The Maori Canoe": 9.20, Studio Orchestra, "My Lady Dragon-Fly" suite; 0,30, Ivy Perrett, soprano, "Since First I Met Thee" and "Open Thy Blue Eyes," and at 9.45, "Oh! That It Were So" and "Yesterday and To-day"; 0.52, studio orchestra, "Two Hindoo Pictures"; 10 to 11, music and melody.