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PROGRAMMES Hi WorM-Radio Yam: 19, 5931. smov:9-ainnuitiputmn e::z:itiiiiiiiiiatstatuutta:auutt WORLD PROGRAMMES hi IOSEL The Official Foreign & Technical tui Journal of the BB.C.. erm.1 L Pteet1,32?Ag1111 Registered at the G.P.O. Vol. XII No. 308 as a Newspaper. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931 Two Pence PRINCIPAL CONTENTS Music from Other Lands 1."Czechoslovakia Control of Canadian Radio The Optimum Load " From the Swiss Alps" Readers' Experiences WORLD -RADIO Station Identification Panel BEROMONSTER (Schweizerischer Landessender), Switzerland Frequency: 653 kc 's. Wavelength : 459 In. Power (Aerial) : 77 kW. ApproximateDistancefromLondon : 475 miles. Initial Call: "Hallo! flier Schweizerischer Landessender !Studio . (Bern, Basel, or Zurich)." Interval Signals : From Berne studio- musical box airs ; from Basle studio -clock chimes. Man Announcer. - Announcements in German. Closes down with the words :" Hiermit istunsere Emission beendet,"fol- lowed by Good -night greeting, first in German and afterwards in dialect Schwyzerdutsch ')," Guete Nacht mitander, schlafts alle recht woehi." Copyright A booklet containinga reprintof these panels can "Now you're Isure of good reproduction" beobtainedfrom the B.B.C. Publications,Savoy Hill,11'.C'.2.. Price Is. LettersshouldbeaddressedtoTheEditor, " WORLD -RADIO," Savoy Hill, Strand, London, W.C.2. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION to " World -Radio " (including postage).Twelve months : I3s., 13s., Mullar Inland Canadian Foreign, 14s. ;Six Months :Inland 6s. 6d., Canadian, 6s 6d. I,ks. THE ,f MASTER' -7 -VALVE, Foreign 7s. Address-" World -Radio," 8.11, Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. Advt. The MallardWireless Service Co. Lid.,MallardHouse, Charing Crory Rd., London, IV.C.24 934 WORLD -RADIO JUNE 19TH, 1931 ra.diotoday The " Radiocorder "-EKCO'S latest invention-enables you to make your own gramophone records.It marks a new epoch in the art of sound recording and reproducing and affords you opportunities for pleasure and enjoyment hitherto outside the realms of possibility.It is the supreme achievement in home entertainment.The " Radiocorder " doubles the pleasures to be derived from your Radio Re- ceiver and Gramophone. The joys available are so many and varied that itis possible to summarise only a few. RADIO : Haunting tunes-favourite dance bands-thrills of big sporting events --noted orators-golden voices from favourite operas-plays-chamber music-comedy._ SPEECH : Messages to your friends-monologues-anecdotes -speeches-language lessons-plays. MUSIC: Your own and your friends' songs and musical ac- complishments-community singing. Very quickly you willbuild up apricelesslibrary of records, yet at extremely low cost. - Thepriceofthe" Radio - corder," complete with acces- sories, and a supply of record blanks andneedles,isonly £5. 5. 0. ALSO OBTAINABLE ON EASY PAYMENTS- Initial payments 9/3 and 11 monthly READ HOW EASILY RECORDS payments of 9/7 (Microphone, ARE MADE. if required, £2. 2. 0 extra) Havingfittedthe MOUNTING SOCKET (1)to the Gramophone, Additional needles and records can be supplied at the following prices :- place the RECORD CARRIER (2) bin. RECORDS -6 for z/6.Sin. RECORDS - and RECORD (3) on the turntable, 6 for 16. plug the CUTTING ARM (4) into STEEL NEEDLES FOR CUTTING-Pkt. of 6 needles, 6d. the Mounting Socket and having FIBRE NEEDLES FOR PLAYING.-Pkt. of fitted a CUTTING NEEDLE (9) so needles, Od into the RECORDER (5) plug the Each needle can be used approximately twenty latter into the Cutting Arm, make times. thenecessaryconnectionstothe HEAR FOR YOURSELF ! Receiver by means of the CONNECT- ING BOX (6) then, having tuned Any good radio dealer will be in the desired station on the Receiver, pleasedto demonstrate the startthe Gramophone and lower Radiocorder." Ask him to the Recorder on to the edge of the let you make a record of your Record.The grooving of the record and therecordingwillthentake own speech or music. place. If it is desired to make records POST COUPON FOR FULL of your own speech, etc., connect the EKCO MICROPHONE to the DETAILS. Receiver. Toreproducerecords, substitute the REPRODUCING ARM (7),fittedwitha FIBRE NEEDLE (10), for the Cutting Arm and play the records in the ordinary way.Volume can be regulated with the VOLUME CONTROL (8). NEI .111 MI MO MMMMMM ME a MI -ME If .1. To : E. K. Cole Ltd., Dept. W.R.11, EKCO Works, Southend-on-Sea Please send ore illustrated Folder describing the EKCO " Radiocorder" Name Address If you would also like particulars of (a) EKCO All -Electric Radio Receivers (b) EKCO Power Supply Units, please r put aI cross against item required. 11.1 I=11Mi 15110 1M MC 11. OW TM VA rig 11.1 ME Of =OW RADKOCORDER R EGA) W Our WORLD -RADIO Registered at the G.P.O. Vol. XIINo. 308 as a Newspaper. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931 TWO PENCE Musk from Other Lands I.-Czechoslovakia Foreword not always the case with folk music, with greatblacklisted by the Austrians and driven into [The aim of this series of articles is to furnishinnate harmonic possibilities. exile. He returned to Prague as soon as possible,' a background, though necessarily a very sketchy The Slovaks make up 25 per cent. of theto take his part in the rebuilding and liberation one, to the national music broadcast from thepopulation, and are an agricultural rather than of the nation. stations of those countries whose music, thoughan industrial people for the reason that they were By 1863 he had completed the first of his eight of international importance, has been hithertolong oppressed by the Hungarians, who insisted national operas, The Brandenburgers in Bohemia,i little known in Britain. They are intended foron all trade flowing through Budapest.Their which he followed by Dalibor (1868), and Libu'§a those listeners who wish to know somethingfolk music is much influenced by Hungarian (x881).Dalibor is an almost legendary Czech' about the national music to which they listen,folk music, and may often be heard from Rakehero,anational leader and faithfulfriend.' but have not the time or inclination to sift theand Bratislava. " He personifies the invincible national soul,1 information they require from large works of The Moravians are a mining and agriculturaljust as his friend, Zdenek, whose wraith visits) referenceorfilesof people, and form about 24 per cent. of thethe hero in the darkest hour of affliction, is periodicals, as is usuallypopulation. Their country was long the subjecttypical of the spirit of hope speaking through° necessary if they want it ofdisputebetweenPoland,Hungary, andthe medium of music a message of confidence in the English language.] Bohemia, and its folk music has traces of thein a happier future " influence of these three nations.It is still dis-(" Smetana"-Groves: 0 get an intelligenttinctive, however, and has attracted the attention Dictionary of Music). grasp of the music of many foreign composers and collectors.ItNo less national is the broadcast from theis often broadcast from Brno and Morayska-truly delightful, opera, Czechoslovakstations Ostrava. The Bartered Bride, by under the heading of The collection of folk music at the beginningwhich he is best known nationalmusic,itis of the nineteenth century was rather a protest outside his own essential to have an ideaagainst the influence of Vienna than an effort country.Other rustic of the history of theto found a truly national school of Czech music.operas areThe Kiss peoplesof which the Czechsstillfelt themselves German thoughand The Secret. Republic iscomposed.they were no longer content to be Viennese.Equally important All truly national musicWhen,however,theRomanticMovementwhether from the must necessarily embodyreached Bohemia and nationalists began to laynational . or purely much of the historicalstress on history rather than philology andmusical point of view experience of the nation archzeology, Czech musicians similarly were notare his five symphonic if it is to crystallise incontent merely with using Czech texts, butpoem s, published Antonin Dvaak sound the deepestsought national musical forms and subjects forunder the title. of Ma B. Smetana in 1862 thoughts and aspira-their compositions.Franz Skroup (x811-1892) Vlast (My Country), of which the best known tions of a people duringwrote an opera Dratenik (The Broomwinder), abroad are Vysehrad (the Capital City), Vltava' the period in which it is written. in 5825, which was the first considerable work(Germanice :Moldau) and Fromthe Fields', The, Republic of Czechoslovakia was formed of this kind. and Groves of Bohemia.Smetana stands in' in 1918 of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, and Bedrich SmetarM (1824-1884) was the firstthe first rank among the composers of the' part of Silesia.Though these peoples have ato reveal the soul of -the nation in music. Theworld and was the first to make Europe realise; musical history continuing from the Middlecourse of the development of his significantthatCzechoslovakmusicwas goingto, Ages, the music with which we are concernedworks is bound up with the cause of nationalcount. dates only from the beginning of the nineteenth independence.In the stirring days of 1848 he Antonin DvofAk (1841-1904) excelled Smetana' century. After the Napoleonic Wars, the musicalwrote a march for the Students' Legion and ain international celebrity.Even to -day Czech! counterpart of the national revival, beginning in SolemnOverture, which caused him to bemusic is represented to thousands of British! Bohemia as an interest in the Czech listeners by his" New World antiquities and language, was natur- symphony, his Stabat Mater, his ally thecollection of Czech folk Songs My Mother Taught Me, and music and dances. For this reason his Humoresque (No.7). Like itislogical to begin with some Smetana, Dvorak was greatly', account of the folk music of the influenced bythe national movement,' republic. but his aim was less comprehensive. The Czechs, known in pre -War Smetana wrote to remind the. Czechs times asBohemians, form about of their glorious past, to rouse them forty per cent, of the population of to a yet more glorious future, and Czechoslovakia. They were subdued to point the way to freedom.
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