RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21st. The IYA programme this evening will be devoted mainly to Community Singing by the IYA Broadcasting Choir and Salon Orchestra. Many old-time songs and new ‘favourites will be sung. The soloists on the programme will be Miss Audrey McDonagh (mezzo-soprano), M'iss (Chriss'e Foster (soprano) and Mr J. H. Joss (baritone), while Miss Joyce Hould (elocutioniste) and Mr A. L. Macpherson (Scottish humorist) will also be heard. Dr Guy H. Scholefield, 0.8. E. will be the lecturer during the International Programme at 2YA.

One of the most interesting portions of 3YA’s operatic-classical programme will be that provided by Miss Dorothy Fiikins, L.T.C.L., a talented Christchurch composer and pianiste, who will herself play several of her own compositions. Another of Miss Fiikins’ pieces, “Nocturne,” will be played as a ’cello solo by Mr Harold Beck, and a violin piece will be played by Miss Irene Morris. The vocalists for the evening will be ’Miss Lottie Colville (soprano), Miss Nellie Lowe (contralto) and Mr J. A. Blyth (tenor). The Studio Octet under Mr Harold Beck will also contribute to the programme. The Hanover Street Baptist Church Choir, conducted by Mr H. P. Desmoulins, will present from 4YA, a varied programme of choruses, part songs, trios and quartettes. Included amongst their items are three popular ‘catches’ or rounds—“ The Bell Doth Toll,” ‘‘Scotland’s Burning” and “Merrily, Merrily.” They are better known as ‘rounds.’ “Old Folks at Home,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Lift 1 Thine Eyes,” “Night Hymn at Sea,” arid “The Lost Chord, I and a chorus entitled “Into the Woods” and an olxl English melody which will have .a rare appeal for all listeners—• “0 Little Town of Bethlehem”—will be j performed by the 'Choir. At 9 o clock j a talk by Mr Ronald Chamberlain, Fix-1 arniner for Trinity College, London, will be broadcast. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22nd. The Orpheus Musical" Club will supply the evening’s programme at IYA. A feature on the programme will be incidental music from “Monsieur Beaucaire.” The soloists wifi be Mrs L. It. Lambert (contralto) and Mrs Rewa Harwell (soprano). Mr Harry Woolley will play pianoforte items, and there will be s>los by Mr. Will Henderson (piccolo) and Mr Reg. Lavies (cornet). At 2YA a concert in commemoration 'of the Batt.le of Trafalgar will be _given bv the Port Nicholson Silver Band and 2YA artists. The band will be heard in a very fine programme of selections and marches A .feature of the programme will be two numbers by Mr Clement 'May, eminent English elocutionist, “Ballad of the Clamperdown” and “The Old Superb.” The vocal portion will be in the hands of r lhe Serenades Male Quartet. 'They will be heard in a full programme of nautical songs. The lecturer on 3YA’s International Programme will be Mr R. W. Laing, IM.A. M.'Sc., of Canterbury College. He will speak oil “The Political Situation in Germany.” *** Silent day at 4YA.