ON THE AIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 8

ON THE AIR

New Zealand broadcasting stations transmit as follows: TO-DAY IYA Auckland: tfilent day. • • * 2YA Wellington: 420 metres, 5,000 watts. 3 -p.m.. Gramophone items; 6 p.r;;., children's hour, Aunt Gwen and Untie Jeff; 7 p in., news; 7.40, p.m., lecture, Mr. It. E. South, “Books—Grave and Gay”; > p.m., overture, Orchestra, "Zampa”; tenor, Mr. C. Williams, (a) “Thou Art Risen,” (b) “The Sea Gypsy”; orchestra, <a> “Alt Wien,” (b) “Sleeping Beauty”; quartet, Ariel Singers, “Love is a Sickness”; Symons-Ellwood-Short Trio, “Trio ir; G Minor” (Dvorak;; mezzo-contralto, Miss N. Coster, “Amarelia”; bass witti < horus, Mr. J. M. Caldwell, three sea chanties, (a) “Blow the Man Down,” (b> "A-roving,” (c) “Johnny, Come Down to liilo”; orchestra, “Surpise Symphony”; t-oprarto, Miss J Briggs, “Come Out, My Boars”; - orchestra, (a) “Melodie Arabe,” soloist, Mr. G. Ellwood; (b) “Village Dance; character sketch, Mr. A. S. Warwick, “The Brice”; madrigals, Ariel Singers, (a) “April is in My Mistress’s Face,” (b) "Xow is the Month of Maying”; orchestra, request items; tenor. Mr. Williams, “I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby”; vocal. Miss Briggs and Mr. Caldwell, “On Jhelum River”; orchestra, (a) “What’ll I Do.” (b) jazz arrangement of Delibes’s “Xaila.” 3YA Christchurch: 306 metres, 500 ■watts. 3 p.m., Afternoon concert; 6 p.m., children’s hour, Uncle Jack; 7.15 p.m., lews; 7.30 p.m., talk, Mr. E. J. Bell, on the Public Library. “Books”; S p.m., relay from Strand Theatre; vocal, Miss A. Graham, Mrs. D. W. Stallard, Messrs. W. Bradshaw and W. H. Inkster, “On the Banks of Allan Water”; selection, Derry’s Military Band, “His Majesty”; soprano Miss Graham, (a) "Love the Pedlar,” (h) “A Birthday”; band, “The Dawn of To-morrow”; tenor and bass, Messrs. Bradshaw and Inkster, “The Battle Eve”; tone poem, band, “Finlandia”; bass. Mr. Inkster, fa) “On the Shores of tho Aegean Sea,” b) “The Dinder Courtship” ; band, “La Ritarata Italiana”: dramatic recitation, Mr. Moses, “The Bell Buoy”; relay from Strand Theatre; vocal. Miss Graham. Airs. Stallard, Messrs, kradshaw and ’#kster, “Because”; 'election, band, “Humoresque”; contralto, Mrs. Stallard. (a> “Chiming Bells of Long Ago.” (hi “Passion of Spring”; fox-trot, band, “Highways are Happy Ways”; soprano and contralto. Miss Graham and Mrs. Stallard, “When Song is Sweet”; humoresque, band. “A Lightning Switch”; tenor, Mr. Bradshaw, (a) “When Other Lips,” (h) “Good-bye, Sweetheart, Goodbye”: humour. Mr. Moses. “Only One”: march, band, “Dixie Rube.” • • • 4YA Dunedin: 463 metres, 250 watts Silent day. TO-MORROW IYA Auckland: 333 metres, 500 watts. • «> * 3 p.m., Afternoon concert; 6 p.m., children’s hour, Uncle George; 7.15 p.m., news; 8 p.m., relay from Majestic Theatre; contralto, Madame Ainsley, “O Mio Fernando” (Donizetti); instrumental, the Auckland Trio, “Trio—Adagio and Scherzo” (Chopin); baritone, Mr. W. Brough, “Will o’ the Wisp”; soprano. Miss N. Hanna, “Lament of Isis”; tenor, Mr. R. Pe'ier, (a) “Cloth of Heaven,” (b) “My Lady”; relay from Majestic Theatre; 8.56 p.m., talk, Mr. A. B. Chappell, M.A.. “Old New Zealand, (8) “The Treaty of Waitangi”; 9.11 p.m., contralto, Madame Ainsley, “Spinning”; Auckland Trio, “Overture Raymond” (Keler Bela); J. 25 p.m., scene and exceupts from the opera, “The Daughter of the Regiment” (Donizetti), produced under Madame Irene Ainsley; cast. Marie (Daughter of the Regiment), Miss Hanna; Tonio, Mr. R. Peter Sergeant Sulpioe, Mr. Brough: and the Countess, Miss M. Hamilton. Items include, “The Camp and the Battle,” “ ’Tis Known to All.” “Ah, Do You Love Me?”, “Mv Gallant Friend,” “Dear Friend, Farewell.” lesson scene. “The Rosy Morn,” “Two Grenadiers.” “To My Heart, What Is Wealth?”, “All Hail. France, My Country,” and “Ah, We Three Meet Again.” * * * 2YA Wellington: 420 metres, 5,000 watts. 3 p.m., gramophone items; 6 p.m., children’s hour; 7, news; 7.40, lecture by representative of Agricultural Department; 8.0, overture, orchestra, “Maritana: vocal, Orpheus Quartet, “To Music”; tenor, Mr. A. Coe, “You In a Gondola”; orchestra, “Pagliacci”; humour, Mr. D. Stark, “The Bird on Nellie’s Hat”; vocaY. Miss Mackie and Mr. l Barnes, “Love Thou",* orchestra, (a) “Andantino,” (b) “11 Bacio”; soprano, Miss Harris, “My Hero”; Orpheus Quartet, “O, Who Will O’er the Downs?”; orchestra, “Scenes Pittoresque”; piano, Miss Bennett, (a) “Nocturne,” (b) “Viennese Waltz”; contralto, Miss Mackie, “Coming Home Along”; humour, Mr. Stark, “Roaming in the Gloaming”; orch€;stra, request items; tenor and chorus, Mr. Coe, “Come Back to Me”; baritone, Mr. Barnes, (a) “Four by the. Clock,” (b) “Slow, Horses, Slow,” (c) “Sing, Break Into Song”; orchestra, “Carmen”; Orpheus Quartet, “Robin Hood's Wedding”; original sketch, Mr. Stark and Mr. Barnes; orchestra, “My Blue Heaven.” • • • 3YA Christchurch: 306 metres, 500 watts. Silent day. * • * 4YA Dunedin : 463 metres, 250 watts. 3 p.m., gramophone concert; 6 p.m., children’s hour. Big Brother Bill; 7.15. news. 7.30, address on “Tourist Resorts.” hr Mr. R. W. Marshall; 8.0, concert by the St. Hilda Band and assisting artists. ACROSS THF. TASMAN . TO-DAY Australian broadcasting stations transmit as follow: 2BL Sydney: 353 metres, 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., children’s session: 8 p.m., courrry session and news sei-vice; 9.30, concert programme. Including items by Broadcasters’ Topical Chorus and vocalists; dance music. * • * 2FC Sydney: 442 metres, 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., children’s session. Hello Man; S p.m., dinner music; 8.30, news; O. ’ studio concert and dance jnusic. 3LO Melbourne: 371 metres, 5,000 watts. 7.30 p.m., children’s session: 0 p.m., talks and news items; dance music. 4QG Brisbane : 385 metres. 6,000 watts. 7-30 p.m., news; 8, children’s session; 9.30, studio concert of vocal and instru- 1 mental items; dance music. NOTES * n future the Bosworth-Hemus-Tow- ‘ Trio will broadcast under the name or , the Auckland Trio. Daughter of the Regiment,” on a romance of the NapoltVars, is the opera which Madame 1 v t lnsley s Quartet will produce at hJ iht morrow evening. This opera, in • Sin Z % Ttl, Was first Produced in Paris I ini l in London, where Jenny «»• vS licipal part - “ •**-.