RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23203, 24 November 1938, Page 7

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES PIANO AND ELECTRIC ORGAN ANOTHER SHAKESPEARIAN PLAY I(V ALL-WAVE The place of art in lifo will lie the subject of a talk to be given in the "Whirligig of Time" series by Mr. A. B. Tlionison from IYA this evening. An unusual offering is contained in tomorrow's programme schedule. Dora Judson, solo pianist, with Albert Bryant at the organ, will present Mendelssohn's Concerto, in G Minor for Piano and Orchestra. The orchestral accompaniment is a transcription which will be played on the Evcritt electric orgatron. Vincent Aspey, violinist, will be heard in the second half of the same programme. JJenry J'urcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas'' is to be broadcast from recordings at 8.of) p.m. on Sunday at the conclusion of a recital by Grace Adams ICast, American trumpet virtuoso. Opening with an item by Ina Uosworth aiul Leo Whittaker, Mozart's Sonata No. 14 in D Flat Major, Wednesday's chamber music session will include, at 8.41, Brahms' Adagio and Finale from Trio in B Major, played by the Elly Nev Trio. A programme by the Appollo Singers, with interludes by the Keys-Burton-liodgers Instrumental Trio, will be featured between 9.5 and 10 o'clock from "JVA this evening, the items ineluding solos as well as concerted numbers. The same station will broadcast another Shakespearian play, this time "Hamlet," in its after-church session on Sunday. The script for the play was adapted by the National Broadcasting Service and produced in the Wellington studio, and compresses the action into 90 minutes. As an alternative, 4YA will put on the air Balfo's "The Bohemian Girl," one of the most tuneful of the English operas. Mercadante's ".Mass in B Flat," by the Lyric Choir, with Dorothy Barron, Sirs. A. Chishohn, Hay Marshall and J. Devereux as soloists, will be presented from 4YA on Monday at 8 p.m. A pianoforte recital by Mr. Eric Grant, examiner to the Royal Academy of Music, will be given from 2YA on Tuesday at 9.5 li.in. For the first time in many years, the 31-metre broadcast in the No. 1 Transmission of the Empire station was discontinued on November 17, when the following frequencies became eflcctivo: GSl\ 19.60 metres; GSO, 19.76 metres; GSF, 19.8:2 metres; GSE, 25.'_'9 metres; and GSD, 25.53 metres. Of these stations GSF, GSF and GSE are specially directed toward Now Zealand. Over this chain at 8.15 this evening Hubert Carta, New Zealand tenor, will givo a recital, and this will be followed by a topical gazette and news and announce- ; meuts. On Saturday, at 8.20 p.m., the j second of "The Thin Bed Line" scries, j dealing with the chronicles of famous I regiments, will be broadcast, and this will give a resume of the exploits of the Boval Scots. The same session will at 9.20, a recital by Ellis Keeler, a famous baritone, and, at 9.4 U. another page from 4 'London Lo^.' The Paris-Mondial group of shortwave broadcasting stations operated by ! the French Government has again j changed schedules. Eight distinct transmissions now take plate daily, each . programme beginning and ending with "I,a Marseillaise." In the following list the times given are New Zealand summer time, which is 12 hours ahead of Greenwich mean time: II li-o, 1G.84 metres, 2.30 a.m. to 4 a.m.£ TPB-6 25.60 metres,, noon to 2.10 p.m.; TPB-7, 25.24 metres, 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; TPB-11, 19.83 metres, ( p.m. to 10 p.m.; TPB-11, 4.15 p.m. to 11 a.m.; TPA-2. 19.68 metres, 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.; IPA-3, 25.24 metres, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and ,4.15 a.m. to 11 a.m.; and TPA-4. 25.60 metres, noon to 2.15 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. It will be noticed that at most periods of-the 24 hours at least two transmitters are on the air. As the Empire short-wave trans-1 mitters have to work on several frequencies they are constructed on one of two systems, which permit of quiek changing of the various coils. For the lower-powered units this is effected by i mounting a series of coils on a turn- j table, which enables, by a partial revo- j lution of the table, tho selection of ■ the appropriate set of coils. With i transmitters above a certain power, j however, this type of wave-changing is difficult to use and in the latest plants there has been a reversion to the plug-in coils, which were a feature of the earliest all-wave receivers. Daventry uses what is probably the largest coil unit in the world. It is so large that it is run into places on rails. The largest units are for use in the final stages and the trucks carrying these huge coils' have also the feeder coupling coils and the associated tuning condenser. Experiments are proceeding with a continuously variable inductance to cover all bands from 30 to 50 metres. FROM IYA To-day: 7.30 p.in., "The Whirligig of Time—Tito Place of Art in Life." a talk by Mr. A. B Thomson; S p.m., "Westward Ilo!"; 6.15, "Wandering with the West Wind"; 8.45, "The Fourth form at St Percy's"; 0.5, "The Original Now Zealander," a talk by Mr. D. C'rcsswell; O.'JO, band music; U. 30, "Dad and Davo"; 0.43 to 10, band music and interludes; 10 to 11. dance music. To-morrow: 8 p.m., Mozart's> Symphony in E Flat Opus 31); 8.20, Beethoven's "Ah I Perfido' ; 8.34. Dora Judson, pianist, with Albert Bryant at the organ, Mendelssohn's Concerto in G Minor Opus L's (orchestral accompaniment transscribed and played on electric orgatron); 0.5, talk, Miss E. M. Wright, "In a Chinese Dairy"; I).'JO, Vincent Aspey, violinist. Air from Goldmark's Concerto in A Minor. "Hondo" and "The Lark"; 0.40.' Albeniz's "Iberia" suite; 10 to 11, music and melody. Saturday: 8 p.m., The Euterpe Trio, soprano, flute and piano, aria, "Caro Nome," piccolo. "Oriolo" polka, soprano, "t'oso Softly Blooming," piano, "Serenade. *' sccna, "Mad Scene" (Donizetti); 8.•_'(!, Haydn Murray, violinist, "Minuet," "Chanson Meditation" and "Tempo di jMiuuetto"; 8.38, Los O'Lcary, baritone, "The Arrow and the Song," "Ships of A ready," "Angels Guard Thee" and "Beloved. It is Morn''; 8..50. "Nights at the Ballet"; 0.5 to JO, light recordings; 10.10 to 11.15 dance music. Sunclay: 11 a.m., relay from St. Mark's Anglican Church; 7 p.m.. relay from St. Patrick's Cathedral; 8.31, Grace Adams East. American trumpet virtuoso; 8.50, complete recorded presentation of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas." Monday: 8 p.m., "The Exploits of the Black Moth—Spy Mania"; 8.30. "The Dld-tinie Theayter" series, "The Bargee's Daughter"; 8.15, "John Halifax —Gentlenan"; 0.5, recorded talk by the "Rev. John t'lynn, "The Story of tho Flying Doctor of Australia''; O.L'o, studio orchestra. "A Day n Naples"; 0.27, Hilda Reffell, soprano. 'Song of a Nightingale" and "Down Vanxlall Way"; 0.33, studio orchestra. "Danco if the Hours," and. at 0.13, "Coppelia Bullet Suite": 0.53, Hilda Reffell, "The Piper from -over Iho Way." and "A Funny bellow"; 10 to 11, music and melody. Tues. lay: 8 p.m., Japanese Houseboy; 8.13, "iraco Adams East, trumpet virtuoso; 8.20. 'Tho Homestead on the Rise"; 8.12. Eh and '.eh; 8.51, Melodies by Buccaneers of the "'irate Ship Vulture": 0.5, recorded talk. ")r. Kalidns Nag, "English—A Unifying ? orce in India''; 0.20 to 11, dance music. Wednesday: 8 p.m., Ina Bosworth, violin, nd l>o Whittaker, piano, Mozart's Sonata s T o. It in B Flat Major; 8.28, recording, Jeethoven's Ist Movement of Sentet In E ? lat Major for Strings and Wood-wind; i.M, Elly Ney. Trio, Brahms' Adagio and ■Mnule from Trio in B Flat Mnlor; 0.5. 'Coronets of England—Mury Queen of icots"; 0,35 to 10. light recordings; 10 to 1, music and melody. IMPIRE SHORT WAVE STATIONS JSP, GSO and GSF, 19 metres; GSE and GSD, 25 metres. Daily < 8 D.m. to 10.15 p.m.