RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) SATURDAY, June 20th. This evening IYA will relay from the Auckland Town .Hall, a concert to be given by the Municipal Choir, under the coriductorsh’p of Mr Maughan Barnett. i2l'A is featuring a Scottish concert-. Both 4YA and 3YA will be broadcasting a vaudeville concert to* be given in the 4YA Studio. The Regal Pour male voice quartet will be heard in several very popular choruses, such as "..ellie Grey,” “Dixie," “Hard Times,’’ “Carry me Back to Old Virginny’’ etc. "Aloha Oe’’ will be sung as a duet. Miss Rita Holmes, soprano, will also contribute to the vocal side of the programme. Irish and Hebrew humour will be introduced by Mr W. B. Lambert. There will be a banjo band—iMr H. Stokes’s excellent combination—and Mr J. Sinton, xylophonist. Trios will be supplied by Messrs Pettitt, Hunter and Law.

MONDAY, JUNE 22nd. Mrs Amy Woodward (soprano) and Mrs Wilfred Andrews (contralto) will give the second of their series of radio recitals at 2YA this evening. In the first half of the programme they will sing groups of songs by Schumann, who is the subject of this week’s “Musical Portrait.” Mr Gordon Short, pianist, will present “Twenty minutes with the Music of Schumann” and will play selections from h.is “Carnival” and “Fantasia,” and, with Mr Havdock (violinist), selections from his Sonatas . for Piano and Violin. In the second half of the programme there will be a half hour with “Maritnna” when some favourite songs from this popular opera will be sung by Mrs Woodward, Mrs Andrews and Mr Eric Harrison, with orchestral accompaniment. Mr Eric Harrison will also sing solos by Schumann and Coleridge-Taylor. The vocalists for 3YA’s hand concert will be Miss C. Freeman Brown (contralto), Air J. Haydn Williams (tenor), Air K. Murray Fountain (baritone) and Air Jack Blair (singing cabaret songs at the piano). The Christchurch ATunieipal Band, .under Mr J. Noble will supply the instrumental nuisic.: As a cornet duo, Bandsman E. Bruce and F. Barber will play the polka ' “Jollification.” Tile speaker for the International 1 Talk on Afonday evening at 4YA wD' be Air J. T. Paul, whose subject will he: “Russia—Her International Relations. Silent day IYA.