RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23221, 15 December 1938, Page 7

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES SEASONAL INFLUENCE RECITALS AND TALKS BY ALL-WAVE Under the conductorship of H. Temple White, the Wellington Boys and Girls' Choirs will present from 2YA at 9.30 to-night a recital of seasonal music, while 3YA will offer "The Human Interest of Christmas," a talk by Wesley Parker, M.A. A complcto musical presentation of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" will he heard from 4YA between 8.30 and 11 p.m. on Sunday, the soloists being artists of international fame. Robert Simmers, well-known Auckland baritone, is featured on Tuesday's programme schedule for 2YA at 9.5 p.m., when he will give a group of classical songs. Next Thursday at 9.5 p.m., under the. conductorship of Anderson Tyrer, the augmented 2YA Studio Orchestra will present the first complete performance of "Dr. Faustus," a dramatic symphony for orchestra, choir and narrator, composed by the conductor. The youngest basso ever to sing a principal part in grand opera in London, Franz Oscar Natzke, has signed a contract for a tour of the main Australian broadcasting stations early in the new year. It is certain that Mr. Natzke will come to Now Zealand either before or on completion of his Australian engagement, but there is, as yet, no word of his undertaking a tour of the YA stations. A little over a year ago Mr. Natzke was granted a scholarship at the Trinity College of Music, London, and it was from the college that he was chosen to sine the part of Dr. Fulke, in Cieorge Lloyd's new full-length opera, "The Serf." Mr. Natzke is hailed as the finest basso since the early days of Chaliapin. Vivaldi's Concert in D Minor, Verdi's "Stabat Mater" and the Brahms' Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, are the works that will be heard in' the fifth of the augmented 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra's present series of concerts. The conductor will bo the music director, Mr. Eric Fogg, and the transmission will take place on Tuesday next at 8.30 p.m., over the Empire short-wave network. The same plants will offer on Saturday week at 9.40 p.m. "London Yulelog," typical of the season, and, on Sunday, "If 1 Were You," an adaptation for broadcasting of the hilarious novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The Christmas Day programme will include also a carol service from the Chapel Royal and on December 30, at 8.25 p.m., the Empire short-wave transmitters will broadcast a radio version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The Australian National stations have arranged special programmes for the Christmas season. At 11 p.m. on December 23 they will bremdeast "Christmas in Many Lands," a feature presented by the Brisbane Concert Orchestra and Wireless Chorus. This will be followed by "The Mixing Bowl," an arrangement of Christmas, variety, and a group of carols sung by the Brisbane Wireless Chorus. On Christmas Eve at 10.5 the same group of transmitters will put on the air a performance of Handel's Oratorio "The Messiah," rendered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Philharmonic Society under the conductorship of George English. The soloists include Strella Wilson, soprano, who is well known to Aucklanders. Etta Bernard, contralto, Lewis Dawe. tenor, and Stanley Clarkson, bass. The times given are New Zealand summer time.

Strenuous efforts were made at the 1938 Radiolympia to stimulate interest in television. So far there are only about 3000 viewers within tho service area of the Alexandra Palace 8.8.C. television transmitter. As actual reception of 8.8.C. programmes is not possible in a building where so many electrical appliances are in operation, recourse was had to two special transmitters feeding into co-axial cables for speech, but the many viewers which were demonstrated under actual working conditions were fed frpm an aerial above the roof of Olympia. The quality of the images shown was very high, the light and shade variation good, and there was, moreover, a complete absence of flickering. With all these improvements prices of viewers were substantial!}' reduced.

Although the greatest caro is taken in the design and construction of modern all-w;ave radio receivers to ensure that tho "alignment," on which depends both sensitivity and selectivity, shall remain correct, after a period in service variations are apt to occur. The first indication of misalignment is a lack of tho usual ability to receive distant stations and this defect may bo apparent on only one or, perhaps, two of the bands, or it may extend over tho whole range. Misalignment is readily corrected, requiring only the proper adjustment of some half-a-dozen "padding condensers." To make such adjustments, however, minutely-exact and rather complicated electrical apparatus is required and the job is essentially one for a properly equipped technician, who will make a very modest charge for realignment. PROM IYA To-day.—B p.m., "Westward Ho"; 8.15, "Wandering with the West Wind"; 5.45, "The Fourth Form at St. Percy's": 9.5. talk, Mr. D. C'resswell, "The Story of Waimate"; 9.20, studio concert by the Band of tho Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment, "King Cotton": 9.23, Danny Malone, Irish tenor; 9.31, Dad and Dave from Snake Gully; 9.52, the band, "The Emperor," euphonium solo played by D. McKechnie, "Invincible March"; 10 to 11, dance music. To-morrow: 8 p m., "Christmas and the Poets," a halfhour reflection on tho festive season, by Llewellyn Etherington; 8.32, Brahms' "Academic Festival"; 8.40, Clement Q. Williams, Australian baritone, "Mi Einer Wasserline," "Zwei Braune Augen," "Ein Schwan," "Ich Licbe Dich," "To Gratiana," "Eight O'Clock," "Soft Footed Snow" and "The Tortoiseshell Cat"; 9.5. talk, A. J. Sinclair, "The Kirk Elder"; 9.20, Vera Moginie. soprano, "Like to the Damask Rose," "The Gardener." "Fivo Eyes," and "Tho First Primrose"; 9.32, R. Struss' ">Le Bourgeois Gcntilhomme"; 10 to 11, music and melody. Saturday: 8 p.m., Aileen Warren, pianist, "Colonial Song" and "Three Little Waltzes"; 8.12, Julie Werry, New Zealand soprano, "Glamorous Night," "Romance." "Simple Littlo Melody," "I Give My Heart" and "When Gipsy Played"; 8.30, Georgo Ayo, bass-baritone, "At Dawning. I'he Bell Ringer," "Just for To-day" and "Deep River": 8.45, Jessie Shae, contralto, "Orpheus with His Lute." "Afternoon Tea," "Reaping" and "Hording Song"; 9.5 to 9.42, light recordings; 9.51, George Scoot and Accordion Band, "Hit Medley"; 10.10 to 11.15, modern dance music. Sunday: 11 a m., relay from Ponsonby Church of Christ! 7 p.m., relay from West Street Church of Christ; H. 30, Clemont Williams, baritone, presents songs by Rudolf Peterka; 8.50, Helen Gay, violin. "Prelude and Lullaby" and "Saltarella"; 9.5, studio presentation by Zoe Bartley-Baxter and players," "The Girl with the Tattered Glove." Monday: 8 p.m., "The Exploits of tho Black Moth"; 8.32, "Old Timo The-ayter"; 8.45, John Halifax— Gentleman-. 9.5, recorded talk, Miss Nolle Scanlan. "A Contrast in Christmases"; 9.20. Sludio Orchestra, "By tho Blue Hawaiian Waters"; 9.25, Julie Worry, soprano, "Blow Thou Winter Wind" and other songs; 9.40 and again at 9.53, Studio Orchestra; 10 to 11. music and melody. Tuesday: 8 p.m., Japanese Houseboy; 8.15, Clement Williams, baritone; 8 35, Eb and Zeb; 8 44, Bucaneers of the Vulture; 9.5, talk. L. K. Munro, "Wcild Affairs": 9.20 to 11, dance music. Wednesday: 8 p.m., d'lndv's Quintet for Flute. Violin, 'Cello and Ilarp; 8.10, Julie Werry, soprano; 8.31, Debussy's Adagio from Quartet in G Minor; 8.41, Clement Williams, baritone; 9.5, Coronets of England—s,l nr.v Queen of Scots; 9.39, "Old Matches Revived: The Fourth Cricket Test at Manchester, 1902"; 10.10 to 11, music and meb.iy. EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATIONS GSD and GSE, 25 metres, GSF, GSO and GSI, 19 metres: Daily. S p.m., to 10 p.m.