RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16th. In 2YA’s concert for this evening Miss Muriel Hitehings and Miss Agnes McDavitt will sing soprano and contralto solos. Miss McDavitt will also be associated in duets with Mr Les. Stapp, tenor. One of Mr Stapp’s solos will have ’cello and violin obligato. Mr vS. Evelyn Rodger will also be singing. The items by the Orchestrina will include the popular French Opera “La Fille de Madame Angot.” Miss Eva Symons and Air Gordon Short, violiniste and pianist, will play the first movement of Beethoven’s “Spring Sonata,” and Mr Short will play “The Bat Waltz” by Strauss. An open-aii' concert, to he given by the New Brighton Municipal Band, under Conductor J. Nuttall, will be broadcast by 3YA. Tile assisting vocalists will be Air E. A. Dowell (baritone) and Air Sydney Hood (bass) both singing favourite songs, and Air Jack Barragh (humorous reciter). The vocalists at 4YA will he Aliss Lettie de Clifford, Airs Nellie Shrimpton, and Air Frank Bennett—four very fine artists. Aliss Lconore MacKonzie, elocutioniste, will give three entertaining reticula. The instrumental item® ..ill be supplied by Air J. AlcCai\ (saxophonist) and the ever popular Novelty Syncopators.' Silent day at IYA.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17th. This evening at IYA some very fine items will be played by an instrumental trio consisting of ALiss Jean Allen (violiniisie), Aliss Marjorie Tiarks (’cellisLe) and Aliss Alargot St. Lawrence 'loner, (pianist). Gf particular interest will be the “Celtic Prelude.” Mr David Whisker, popular flautist, will Ixi heard in several numbers. The vocalists lor the evening will include Aliss Dorothy Lovelace Milne (soprano) singing two negro spirituals. Mr Albert Gibbons Taylor, bass-baritone, will present operatic and classical solos. Tenor songs will be sung by Mr Roger Hrriiigton and Air A. B. Cliapp 11, M.A., will give a' further Topical Talk.

There will be a popular concert from 2YA Studio. AVith other numbers, the Salon Orchestra, under Mr M. T. Dixon, will play the overture “May Day” by Havdn AVood. A feature of the evening’s programme will bo baritone solos, with orchestral accompaniment to be sung by Air W. E. Crewes: “Up from Somerset,” “The Song of the Clock,” “The Land of the Sky Blue Water” and “The Moon Drops Low.” Air AY. G. Kitchener will be heard in humorous songs. Arthur-and Still, mandolin duettists will be heard in snappy and up-to-date numbers, and Mrs E. Crawford a very pleasing ballad singer, will contribute several numbers.

At '4YA, a concert will l>e provided by the Kaikorai Band. Aliss Alollie AGckers will sing Verdi’s magnificent “Fierce Flames are Soaring,” also “Ye Banks and Braes.” The other vocalists will be Air Ralph Alartindale (baritone), Alies Belt} Hamilton (contralto) and Air R. A. Afitchell (tenor). Mr AAL J. Nelson, champion instrumental baritone of New Zealand will present Hartman’s magnificent transcription of “On the Banks of Allan AVater.” .Air T. J. Kirk-Burnnand, pianist, and conductor of the band, will contribute an item. Silent day at 3YA.