FROM THE NATIONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 28

FROM THE NATIONALS

NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAMMES

As usual the national stations offer a wide variety of entertainment in the programmes scheduled for the week commencing next Sunday.

The after-church programme from 2YA. on Sunday will be provided by the Port Nicholson Silver Band, with vocal interludes by G. H. Greenaway (baritone). A feature of, this programme will be the first presentation in New Zealand of "Coronation Fanfares/ as played at the Coronation of King George and Queen Mary. Local artists feature largely 11 in the programme from 3YA, w irti will be of a light classical nature. The recitalists include Ailsa Nicol (soprano), Nellie Lowe (contralto), Gladys Vincent (violinist), and Gordon Anderson (pianist). A classical programme is scheduled by 4YA featuring some of the best recorded music. At 9.13 Charles Martin (pianist) will broadcast a recital. Classical recordings will be broadcast by IYA, with a 'cello recitalby Jean Clarkson at 9.5. A chamber music programme will be broadcast on Monday frorr. 2YA, followed, at 9.5 p.m.. by "Some Musical Curiosities," a «K>ntinuity programme. : The first portion of 3YA's programme wil be provided by the Woolston Brass Band, chamber music being scheduled for the second half of the pr6gramme. From 4YA a recital programme will be broadcast in the first half of the programme. ■ At 9.5 Edwin Lewis's radio play, "The Grey Goose of Edgemoor," will be broadcast, and at 9.30 a fantastic melodrama, "An Experiment in Acoustics," is scheduled. Three one-act plays will open: the programme from IYA—"The Mule," "The • Epicure," and "Saintly Face." From 9.20 ap orchestral and ballad programme will be broadcast. On Tuesday evening 2YA. will open its programme with a classical and symphonic session. At 9.5 Bessie Pollard, the welMmown Christchurch pianist, may beheard iri a recital of well-known classics. The programme from.3YA will be of a popular nature, including two presentations of popular songs of the day by the Wellbrock Brothers. A programme of miscellaneous recordings is scheduled by 4YA until 9.5, when r recorded military band concert will be broadcast. The programme from IYA will consist of popular records; Following a light orchestral and ballad programme from 2YA on Wednesday there will be a dramatic presentation of the radio play "The Pell." At 9.35 p.m. P. H. Hill and Co. will present "Indian Campfire Tales." In a recital programme' from 3YA the following recitalists will broadcast:—Sydney MacEwan (Scottish tenor), Mrs. Tristam Wilcox (contralto), -and Mr. Reg Svfctonri (violinist). A variety programme will be broadcast in the first half of 4YA's programme. At 9.5 a theme programme will be presented, "Memories of Hamc." The first portion of the ■programme from IYA will consist of chamber music and a twopiano recital by Phyllis Bloy and Evelyn Prime. Light popular recordings will be broadcast during the second half of this programme.

Popular recordings will be broadcast in the first portion of 2YA'S programme on Thursday. From 9.5 a programme of light classics will be broadcast, including three presentations by the Tudor Singers. The programme from 3YA will open with the radio play "Quits," performed by the Avon Players. 4YA schedules a symphony concert. The programme from IYA will open »with "America Celebrates," a recording of a programme actually broadcast m America on July 4 last year. From 9.20 a recorded band programme will bo broadcast with vocal interludes by Walter Brough (baritone). '

On Friday evening 2YA will broadcast a programme of popular records and, at 9115, a recorded , band programme with vocal interludes by Ada Lynn. In the first portion of 3YA's 'programme recitals will be broadcast by Sydney MacEvvan (Scottish tenor) and Frederick G. Taplin (baritone). Light orchestral music will be broadcast in the second half of this programme. From 4YA listeners will be entertained with a variety programme until 9.5 p.m. when chamber music will be broadcast. The programme from IYA will open with 40 minutes of reading of prose and verse by Mr. D'Arcy Cresswell," followed by a programme of light classical recordings.

All the national stations have popular programmes for Saturday evening.