RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17th. This evening, IYA will relay from che Auckland Town Hall, a concert by the Municipal Choir, under the conductorship of Mr Maughan Barnett. The orchestral portion of 2YA's programme will include the selection “Princess of Kensington,” “Ninon Fantasia,” “Danse des Sabots,’’ the suite “A Kiss For Cinderella,” and the latest dance novelties. The Lyric Quarter will be heard in a selection of vocal numbers. Miss Florence Penney will delight listeners in songs at the piano. Selected electrical recordings will he included in the programme. From 10 till 11 p.m. there wii-l he a programme of old-time dance music and special broadcasts for the benefit of The Round the World DX Radio Club and other 1)X Clubs in U.S.A.

A. Maori pageant and concert to take place in the Civic Theatre, Christchurch, 'will be broadcast by 3YA and 4YA. A party of entertainers from Kaiapohia will provide the programme for the first hour, which will include addresses of welcome to the Mayor oi Christchurch (Mr I). G. .Suhivan, M.P.), Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M. (Chairman of the Boardof Management of Kaiapohia Pah), and Mr Tuiti Ma.kitanara, M.P. The second half of the programme will be provided by 3YA artists. These will include the Christchurch Salon Orchestra (conducted by Mr Francis Bate), Miss Belle Renaut '(mezzo-contralto), Mr Leslie Fleming (baritone), and Mr Geo. Titchener (humorist). The programme will include a number of Maori items. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19th. At 2YA, tiie 2YA “Musical Portrait” will be in the hands of Mr Claude Tanner, who will play Saint Saens’ beautiful “ ’Cello Concerto . -in A Minor’’ with Maclaine Evelyn de Manny at the piano. Another interesting item on the programmer will lie Mr Harry Bruseys presentation of a part of Vaughan Williams' song cycle “On Weni'ock Edge. The Ariel Singers, .always most welcome to listeners, will present one of their delightful programmes of concerted anu solo numbers. Their quartette® W *D include "The Sea Hath its Pearls,’ "The Wind,” and "Richmond Hili." The Orchestrina will jflay Dvorak’s "Slavonic Rhapsodic, No. 2." a concert waltz, “Reverie” and other numbers. 3YA will relay from Ashburton, a concert by the Ashburton Choral Society under Mr W. H. Dixon. The first half of the programme will include orchestral numbers and parts songs by members of the Society, with sovos by Miss Gladys Brooks (soprano), Madame Anne Harper (contralto), Mr Ernest Rogers (tenor) and _\l r [,. A. Booth (baritone). The same vocalists will be the solists in the cantata, "A Tale of Old Japan,” which i will occupy the second half of the programme. The speaker on 4YA’s International Programme will -be Mr J. Crossley Clitheroe, Lecturer in Music at Dunedin Training Co,lege. His subject will be ■ “Folk Music of the Nations.” Silent day IYA.