RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by tbo Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) TUESDAY, MARCH 31st. A partieuliirly line programme has been arranged by IVA for this evening. Opening the programme, (he JVA Broadcasting Choir, under the eonduetorship of Mr Lon Barnes, will present two choruses from the “Messiah.” A short suite by CoieridgeTaylor, to he played bv the Orchestral Octet, will follow. The Choir will then present the radio play, “l.Cvangeline,” which has been (specially adapted from Longfellow’s poem. This will be followed by the rendition of “Messe Solenneile” (by Gounod). All the musical numbers of the. choir will be accompanied by the Orchestral Octet. fn a series of songs with orchestral accompaniment, Miss Belle Renaut, the popular contralto, will be featured at 2YA. Her items will be “My Heart is Singing,” ‘‘When the House is Asleep,”- “A Song Remembered”) and “Absent.” Supplementary vocal numbers on the programme will he given by the Lyric Quartet, in concerted and solo form. Several of the items will have orchestral accompaniment, while Mr Hoy Hill will sing, with violin obligato, Braga’s “Sere- • nata.” The quartette number, “Lul-I laby Moon” will also have violin obligato. In the singing of “Oft When Eve has Rest Bestowed,” the males voices of the quartet will be unaccompanied. The instrumental side of the programme will be provided by the Hawaiian Harmony Four and the Salon Orchestra.

St. .Joseph’s Waverley Boys’ Orphanage Band will give their first radio performance at 4YA this evening. The* band is a first class combination. AHo contributing to the programme will he Miss Phyllis I. Clare (Mezzo-soprano), Miss Lucy G. James (contralto), Mr l'l. Prowse (tenor), Mr C. S. Hawes (baritone) and Mr J. B. Flynn (reciter). Silent day at 3YA. The afternoon talk at IVA to-mor-row will he-. “How LHteiFTs-in and the Home Science Department can help each other.”

"WEDNESDAY, APHID Ist. The Clarion Quartet will lie heard from IYA this evening in several popular /solos, duets and quartettes. Mr A. 13. Chapped, M.A., will be giving another of his Topical Talks. The instrumental portion of the programme will be provided by the Orchestral Octet, amongst their numbers being a violin solo by Mr Carl Whitmore, -‘.Meditation," “The Three Dances from ‘Tom Jones’’’ and ‘-Hungarian Dance No. I’’ by Brahms. Mr Chan. K. Wheeler, will be flm lecturer during the International Program me at '2YA this evening. .Miss Cicely Audibert will give a recital from UY A. She will have orchestral accompaniment in her singing of -‘Canterbury Bells,” ‘Farewell Aly Love,” “Sitting at Home by fhe Fire” and Ware’s “Boat Song.” Mrs Amy Dunn (soprano), a well known 2YA performer, on a holiday visit to if hrCteimreh, will also lie singing. Tenor solos will bo sung l>v Mr OoTitchenor. Interspersing the programme will be attractive items by fhe Studio Octet. Th e presentation of solos, duets and choruses from “A Country Girl” will he the feature of 4 4 YA’s programme for c( ; his evening. This is an especially popular musical play and 'l he .Majors Quartet can be relied upon to do full justice to it. All the well known songs—such as “Try Again Johnnie.” “Yo Ho, Little Girls, Yo Ho.” “The It a jah of Bhong,” “Two Tattle Chicks” and “Peace, Peace”—will lie sung.