RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 7

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES CATHOLIC CENTENARY BY ALL-WAVE "Westward Ho!" based on the novel by Charles Kingsley and presented by George Edwards and Company, is the opening item on this evening's eoncert session from IYA; At 8.35 the Zigcuner Trio, Messrs. Phillip Cohen, violinist, Henri Penn, pianist, and David Sisserman, 'cellist, will play Chaininade's Trio Opus 11. To-morrow the studio orchestra will render, at 0.5 p.m., Mozart's Symphony in E Flat and will accompany Madame Annette Chapman, soprano, in a. bracket of Brahms' compositions. On the conclusion of this recital the orchestra, with Vincent Aspev as soloist, will interpret Bruch's Concerto in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra. Sunday's after-church offering will be a complete recorded {>resentation of Wagner's "Tannlauser." Owing to a special relay on Tuesday, the usual serial features have been transferred to the second half of Wednesday's schedule, which is to open with a recording of Couperin's "Concert Dans de Gout Theatral," and is to includo a recital by Jean MacFarlane, New Zealand contralto. A recording of John Maselield's play "The Tragedy of Pompey the Great" is to be presented by the Wellington station at eight o'clock this evening immediately on conclusion of a talk by Dr. .11. R. 1). Milligan, on "Health Work of the League of Nations." The same station will relay at 9.15 p.m. to-morrow the second A grade test of the New Zealand band championships, which are being determined at Palmerston North. A further band championship relay, this time of the quick-step competition, will be given over 2YA between 1.30 and 5 p.m. on Saturday. Recitals by Jean MacFarlane, contralto, and Sydney Coltman, tenor, are to be combined on Sunday evening with a programme of cathedral music sung bv the Schola Cantorcm and broadpast by 2YA. As an alterantive the Christchureh station will put on the air the radio play "The Rivals," an adaptation of a play by R. B. Sheridan. On Monday the Dunedin station will broadcast a concert by the Glee Singers and a radio drama. "Avalanche," from the pen of Max Afford.

The constantly changing activities aiid_ ideals of mankind arc to be the subjects of a series of 7.30 p.m. talks, "The Whirligig of Time," to be presented by the National Broadcasting Service over the YA stations as a feature of the winter sessions. The talks will range from political revolution to changes in manners and dress and will be broadcast over 2YA on Mondays, 4YA on Tuesdays, 3YA on Wednesdays and IYA on Thursdays, commencing on March 1 and 2 from 4YA and 3YA respectively and from IYA and 2YA tho following week. The Auckland and Dunedin series will start with a consideration of the position of women in history and will pass on to changes in the home and amußo" ments, to wars and to systems of government, and ideas of world and space. The Wellington series will open with a series of talks on political upheavals and conclude with discussions of manners and morals, while the Christchurch series will be confined to studies of great men throughout history.

Relays in connection with tho New Zealand Catholic centenary celebrations figure largely in next week's programmes/of IYA. At 11 a.m. on Sunday the station will put on tho air a celebration of Pontifical High Mass and at 7 p.m. Vespers. The civic reception, by the Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis, will be broadcast on relav at noon ou Monday from the Town Hall, and on Tuesday a further relav, also from the Town Hall, of a Maori concert. a portion of the celebrations, will be undertaken. On Saturday, March 5. from eight until 10.30 p.m., IYA will broadcast the scenic play "Credo." This play was written by Father Joseph Boon and translated by F. J. Sliced. For its Auckland presentation at the Western Springs Stadium a choir of 120 voices under the direction of Colin Muston will take part.

The British Broadcasting Corporation controller of public relations, Sir Stephen Tallents, has written to some 10,000 wireless licence holders in, the British Isles inviting them to answer a questionnaire about their listening habits. The corporation selected tlu> areas from which it desired information and the Post Office picked the names at random and despatched the query sheets. The questionnaire asked, among other tilings, what type of programme the listeners preferred, what they sidered tho best times for them, whatbulletins the}- listened to and when they usually had their sets in operation. In order to make the inquiry more effective listeners were invited to give their occupations and ages, but were forbidden to gfvt> tlieiu names. The experiment has been made much earlier than would have been possible had not the response to other listener research schemes been so good. If this experiment proves a success further research on other questions is to be undertaken.

An interesting innovation in televised opera was made recently by the London studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Two casts were employed, one to mime the action before tho camera and the other to sing the words of the second act of Tristan and Isolde. It was thus found possible to present an ideal sight-and-sound presentation, combining first class singing with adequate acting. Tho experiment also made possible some significant innovations in the treatment of operatic scenery. Instead of the action being confined to tho front of a castle, as in stage versions, hunting scenes, televised against a background of trees in Alexandra Park, wero interpolated in the transmission. Consequently the "visual" actors Avere given considerable freedom of movement while their parts were sung "off-stage."

FROM IYA To-day: 8 p.m., "Westward Ho!", a dramatisation of Kingsley's novel; 8.15, excerpt* from "Jn a Persian Garden ; 8.35, Zieeuner Trio present Chaminade s lrio, Onus 11; 0.5, recorded talk. Leaves from a Planter's Notebook"; 0.20,. hand programme, with recorded vocal interludes by John McCormack and Peter Dawson; 10 .to 11, dance music. To-morrow: 8 p.m., -10 minutes of readings of verse and prose by D'Arcy Cresswell; 8.50, Turina's Symphonic Rhapsody; 0.5. Studio Orchestra, Mozart a Symphony in fe Flat; 0.25, Annette Chapman, soprano, with orchestra, Death is the Cool Night," "Sapphic Ode, In the Churchyard" and "Ever Lighter Grows My o I umber"; 0.35 Vincent Aspey, violinist, with orchestra, Bruch's Concerto in G Minor, Opus 30; 10 to 11, music and melody. Saturday: 8 p.m.. Comedy Harmonists recordings; B.Sybil Hascher, soprano. "Do Not <.o, Mv Love" "The Night has a 'thousand Eves," "The Guest" and "A Birthday Song"; 835 Alan Pow, pianist. "In Old Pekin suite (Kamenoff); H. 5, light recordings; 0.30. recorded serial, "Hotel Revue ; 10, sports summary 10.10 to 11.15 dance music. Sunday: it a.m., relay from St. Patricks cathedral of New Zealand Catholic Centenary; 7 pm. Catholic Centenary service; 8.30, recorded presentation of Wagner's "Tannhauser." Monday: Noon, relay of civic welcome to overseas visitors attending the Catholic Centenary, 8 p.m., studio presentation by Maisie Carte-Lloyd of Paull's dramatic sketch, "Clear Moonlight "; 8.17, recorded dramatic presentation. "The Case of the (.'olden Mask"; 0.5, talk, Mr. A. Thomson, "Red Indian and Polynesian Tales"; 0.20, Studio Orchestra and Eva Simson, soprano, "The Belle of New York"; 0.38, orchestra, "Seven Scottish Airs" and, at 0.52, "Eastern Romance"; 10 to 11, music and melody. Tuesday: 8 p.m., relay of Maori concert in connection with the Catholic Centenary; 10 to II dance music. Wednesday: 8 p.m., Couporin's "Concert Dans de Cout Theatral"; 8.18, Jean MacFarlano, contralto, "My Shelter," "Death and the Maiden" and "Cradle Song"; 8.50, Budapest String Quartet, Wolf's Italian Serenade; 0.5, recorded feature, "Coronets of England"; 9.35, Japanese j Houseboy; 0.48, Eb and Zeb; 0..*i7, Melody ( by Bucaneers of Pirate Ship Vulture; 10.6 to 11, mueic and melody.