RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22935, 13 January 1938, Page 18

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES SANDERS CUP CONTESTS DAVENTRY EXPERIMENTS

BY ALL-WAVE

Visiting English vocalists, Barbara Lane and Cuthbert Matthews, will give short recitals in the second portion of this evening's concert session at IYA. The same artists are featured also in Sunday's after-church programme, when, in addition to solos, the duet "Ah! Well, We'll Try to be Precise," from Messager's "Veroniquie," will be sung. Well-known over 2YA, Mr. Clement Howe, on a visit 'to Auckland, will deliver from IYA on Monday at 9.5 p.m. a talk, "Some Musical Fallacies." Opening with a recording of Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, and including a recital by Gwenda Weir, soprano, Wednesday's chamber music session from IYA will feature at 9.20 a 30minute broadcast by Sascha Berliner's Continental Ensemble.

Written by Val Gielgud, producer of plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation, a melodrama, "The Ser-geant-Major," is to be performed tonight at the studio of 3YA by the Civic Radio Players. As an alternative the Wellington station will offer a Brahms concert, opening with his Symphony No. 1 in C Minor and including, at 9.17, a recital by Cynthia Smith of "Three Preludes" (Scriabine) and two intermezzos by -Brahms. Sascha Berliner's Continental Ensemble will open Friday's concert session from 2YA, which, at 8.32, will broadcast a recital by Sydney MacEwan, Scottish tenor, who is under an extended contract to the National Broadcasting Service. The Continental Ensemble will broadcast again from 2YA on Sunday at 8.30 p.m., at which time the Dunedin station will offer a complete musical presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Princess Ida." Professor Arnold Wall, late professor of English, Canterbury College, may be heard over 3YA on Monday at 9.5 p.m. in a recorded talk, "Plain Man's English."