ON THE AIR THIS WEEK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 16

ON THE AIR THIS WEEK

IYA AND 2YA FEATURES This evening IYA will relay a performance of Gaul's cantata.. "The Holy City/’ from St. Paul's Methodist Church. Hamilton. The choir has a membership of 40 and is an excellent combination. The conductor and organist will be Mr. T. S. Webster, whose recitals in the past have been enjoyed by IYA listeners. A special "Nigger Minstrel" programme has been arranged for tomorrow evening at IYA, and will be presented by the ‘’Coon-Cans from Alabama.” This will be produced replete with interlocutor and endmen and the usual bones, tambourines, cross-talk and choruses. A feature will be the singing of the old plantation songs and spirituals by the Alabama Coon Quartet. The Wellington Municipal Tramways Band, assisted by the Lyric Quartet, Mr. J. R. McKenzie «novelty pianist> and Miss Thelma Aitken (elo- : cutionistj, will provide tomorrow's programme at 2YA. The band items will include "The Bohemian Girl Overture,” the intermezzo "In a Persian Market,” a selection from ''Rose Marie,” a patrol, "Jungle Drums,” and several marches and waltzes. Mrs. Norman Izett, mezzo-soprano, will be heard in "Sincerity” and "Amarella.” Miss Thelma Aitken’s items will be

two humorous recitations, “At the Seaside” and “Foolish Questions.” One of the main items on lYA’s programme on Friday evening will be the lecture-recital by Mrs. Daisy Basham on ‘ Great Composers,” her subject being “Mendelssohn.” Mrs. Basham will have the assistance of Mr. H. Barry Coney for this recital. One of his items will be “I Am a Roamer.” A new performer will be Miss C. Mulqueen, mezzo-soprano. The gifted monologist, Miss Nina Scott, will include among her numbers a dramatic recital, “The Gift of Tritemeous” and “I Want to Go to Daddy.” The Studio Trio will contribute selections, while Miss Ina Bosworth (violinist) will play “Sonata in A Major” (Handel). On Friday evening the Ariel Singers of 2YA will present a programme of vocal gems from grand and comic operas. Their items will comprise a mezzo-contralto solo, “Farewell, to My Home,” from “La Wally.” The madrigal from “The Mikado,” “Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day,” a bass solo, “Yrhen a Maiden Takes Your Fancy,” from “II Seraglio,” the well-known soprano solo from “Pirates of Penzance,” “Poor Wandering One,” and a duet from “La Vestale.” The soloists will be Miss Ngaire Coster (mezzo-contralto) and Mr. J. M. Caldwell (bass), and Miss Jeanette Briggs (soprano). The orchestra will play selections from operas in keeping with the type of programme. The humour of the evening will be provided by Madame Eugenie Dennis and her partner, who will be heard in two sketches, “Two in a Punt” and “Foiled Fiend.” Saturday evening’s programme from IYA will include items by Miss G. Evans (mezzo) and Mr. F. Baker (baritone). An original novelty sketch will be presented by the Four Originals, this being the sequel to “Oh! Millie!” which was performed some weeks ago. Orchestral selections will be played by the studio orchestra, while a number of selected gramophone items will be introduced. The Melodie Four, Berthold and Bent (steel guitar duo), and Mr. J. Roworth (comic songs and patter) will, with the assistance of the studio orchestra, provide an entertaining vaudeville programme. The concerted items by the Melodie Four will be “The Glow Worm,” “The Goblins ’ll Get You” and “The Owl and the Pussy Cat.” Mr. R. S. Allwright (baritone) will sing “The Muleteer of Malaga,” and Mr. F. Bryant the tenor solo, “Fat Lil’ Feller With His Mammy's Eyes.” Cadman’s “I Hear a Thrush at Eve” will be Mr. S. Duncan’s solo, and Mr. W. W. Marshall has chosen for his item “Down in the Deep Let Me Sleep When I Die,” a bass solo. Berthold and Bent will be heard in several Hawaiian and popular song numbers, and Mr. Jack Roworth will entertain with comic songs and patter. The orchestral overture will be Eger’s “Snacks in Bars,” and further novelties by the orchestra will include Bidgood’s “A Motor Ride,” a trombone polka, Locker’s “Ragtime Bass Player,” and a selection, “Poppy” (by Samuels). The first portion of Saturday’s programme at 3YA will consist of a rebroadcast of 2YA, but from 8.30 p.m. till 10 p.m. ringside descriptions of the championship boxing matches will be relayed from Greymouth.

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