OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1939, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT'S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 0.0: Dinner music. 6.50: A recording of the Thompson Handicap. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. . 7.40: Talk, Miss Catherine Keddell, “Fairy Lore of Old Ireland.” 8.0: The St Patrick’s Day Concert. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: “Eb and Zeb.” 9.15: Black Diamonds Band, “Fatinitza” quick march (Suppe). Munn and Felton’s Works Band, “Slavonic Rhapsody” (Friedmann). Grand Massed Brass Bands. "A Wayside Sanctuary—ldyll” (Mackenzie). 9.27: Eileen Courtenay (mezzo-soprano), '‘‘The Nightingale and the Rose” (Hawley); “A Funny Fellow” (Michael Head). 9.33: Band of H.M. Welsh Guards, “Wedded Whimsies” (Alford). Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, “Dominion” Medley. 9.45: Eileen Courtenay (mezzo-soprano), “Don’t Hurry,” “Song of the Smuggler’s Lass” (Phillips). 9,51: Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, “Sousa Marches On” (Sousa). 10.0: Dance recordings. 10.28: Time signals. 11.0: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: “Show of Shows” —an hour of light entertainment, featuring at 8.22 “St Patrick’s Day in Exile.” 9.0: Sonata hour, featuring at 9.0, Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 (Chopin), played by Percy Grainger (pianist); and at 9.28, Sonata in D Minor, Op. 121 (Schumann), played by Hephzibah and Yehudi Menuhin (piano and violin). 10.0: Comedia. ’ 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Rhapsodies in rhythm. 7.35: Personal column. 7.48: The Singing Hill-Billies. 8.3: Records at random. 8.25: “Aloha Land.” 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: Wandering with the West Wind. 9.15: Dance music. 9.45: The Easy Chair. 10.0: Cloje down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Sports talk by Gordon Hutter. 8:0: Readings from the classics, with music, “Petronius,” the fantastic novelist, by Professor C. G. Cooper. 8.32: The Queen’s Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry Wood, Overture in G Minor (Bruckner). 8.40: Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), “Come Into My Dreams” (Liszt). 8.44: Walther Straram Orchestra, Paris, “Daphnis and Chloe” suite symphonique (Ravel). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Annette Chapman (mezzo-soprano), “Abendrot” (Schubert); "Marienwurmchen’ (Schumann) “Zueignung” (Strauss); “The Dreary Steppe” (Grechaninov). 9.18: Wilhelm Backhaus (soloist) and the 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult, Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for Pianoforte (Brahms). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

3YA,. Christchurch. '720 k.c.

5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.35: “Winter and Spring Feeding of Dairy Cows.” 8.0: Boston Promenade Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler, “Rienzi” Overture (Wagner). 8.12: Dale Smith (baritone), “On the Water,” “Wanderer’s -Night Song” (Schubert); “The Lass of Richmond Hill” (arr.« Adlington); “If Thou Wert Blind” (Johnson). 8.24: Vasa Prihoda (violin), “Souvenir” (Drdla); “Gavotte” (Burmester); “Serenade,” Op. 6 (Toselli); “The Dance of the Goblins” (Brazzini). 8.3 G: Amelita Galli-Curci, “Lo Here the Gentle Lark’ (Bishop); “La Pdloma” (Yradier); Air and Variations (ProCh); “La Capinera” (Benedict). 8.48: Musical Art Quartet, “Hark! Hark! The Lark” (Schubert); “Serenade” (Herbert); “To a Wild Rose” (McDowell); “Deep River” (arr. Held). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Reserved. 9.20: “The Twilight Dreamer” presents a bouquet of Irish Melodies. 9.35: The London Palladium Orchestra, "Master Melodies.” 9.42: “The Blue Danube”—songs and stories from the river of romance. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. 4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.0: Childrens hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: “Dad and Dave from Snake Gully.” 8.15: “Pinto Pete in Arizona.” 8.30: “The Rich Uncle from Fiji” (episodes 9 and 10). 8.42: Talk by Mr O. E. White, “The Sea Hath its Pearls” (3). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, “Molly on the Shore,” “Londonderry Air,” “Shepherds, Hey” (Grainger). 9.20: Readings by Professor T. D. Adams, with musical interludes: Readings from “The Rivals” by the Irish playwright, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Music from: Elgar, “Enigma Variations”; Rimsky Korsakov, "Scheherazade” Suite; Mendelssohn, “Wedding March.” 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close down. Empire Programme. GSD, 25.53 m.; GSE, 25.29 m.; GSF, 19.82 m.; GSO, 19.76 m.; GSI, 19.66 m. 6.30 p.m.: Grand Cornish Concert. 7.10: “Beethoven”—David Martin (Canadian violinist) and Myers Foggin (pianoforte). 7.40: Variety—with Dick Bentley, Daisy Hill, and Walsh and Barker. 8.0: “The Adventures of Alonzo McTavish” —;1. Specially written for broadcasting by Peter Cheyney. Production by Vai Gielgud. 8.20: News and announcements. 8.35: Next week's programme. 8.45: Close down.