OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1939, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.e. 5.0: Children’s session. 0.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. 7.30: Talk, Mr C. A. Wilson-Grant, an officer of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. “First-Aid in Schools” (1). 7.40: News and reports. 8.0: The 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, “La Scala di Seta” (“The Silken Ladder”) Overture I Rossini). 8.10: Enrico Caruso (tenor), “Addio”; “Parted” (Tosti). 8.18: Henry Croudson (organ), Hungarian Fantasy; Strauss Waltz Medlej- (arr. Goer). 8.24: Frank Luther and the Lyn Murray Quartet, with piano, guitar and violin accompaniment, Stephen Foster Melodies, “Old Black Joe”; “Uncle Ned”; “Camptown Races”; “Ring de Banjo.” 8.30: Primo Scala’s Accordion Band, “Take Your Partners,” No. 3 (compered by Bobbie Comber). 8.36: Ronald Gourley (whistling solos), “A Tale of the Woods” (Gourley); “Half a Dozen What Nots” (Sterndale Bennett). 8.42: Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra, “That Night in Avalon” Waltz (Kalmar, Silver); “Colorado Sunset” (Gilbert, Conrad). 8.48: Talk, Mr G. F. Shaw, “The Inventor in the Chart Room.” 0.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: “Eb and Zeb.” 9.15: Black Dyke Mills Band, “The Middy” March (Alford). Massed. Brass Bands, “Overturiana” (arr. Somers); “Pan and the Wood Goblins” (Rathke). 9.24: Pat Murdoch (baritone), “Wayfarers’ Night Song”; “The Crown of the Year” (Easthope Martin). 9.30: Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, “Marche Slav” (Tschaikowsky); ‘The Mill in the Black Forest” “March of the Mountain Gnomes” (Eilenberg). 9.44: Pat Murdoch (baritone), “Trade Winds” (Keel) “The World is Mine; Tonight” (Posford). 9.50: Amington Band, “Merrie England” Selection (German). 9.5 G: Metropolitan Police Central Band. “Wellington” March (Zehle). 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: Continuity programme. 9.0: Sonata hour, featuring, at 9.35, Sonata in C Minor, Op. 11l (Beethoven), played by Egon Petri (piano). 10.0: A happy half-hour. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Rhapsodies in rhythm. 7.35: “Personal Column—Drama from the Agony Column of a Newspaper.” 7.45: The Singing Hill-Billies. 8.3: Records at random. 8.25: “The Old-time The-Ayter.” 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: “Wandering With the West Wind.” 9.15: Supper music. 9.45: “The Easy Chair.” 10.0: Close 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 Ruskin Shelley and the book of Ecclesiasticus, with music by Mendelssohn—Miss Florence Robinson. 8.32: Philadelphia Symphony. Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, “Russian Easter Festival” Overture, Op. 36 (Rimsky, Korsakov). 8.48: Mary Murphy (soprano), “Berceuse” (Arensky) “The Sower” (Cesar Cui); "Vigil” (Glinka). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Phyllis Bloy (soloist), with the Studio Orchestra, conducted by Harold Baxter, Capriccio Brilliante for Piano and Orchestra (Mendelssohn). 9.16: Alexander Kipnis (bass), “The Phantom Double”; “The Sign-Post” (Schubert). 9.24: Leela Bio- ‘violinist), accompanied by the Studio Orchestra, “La Folia” Variations (Orchestration by Colin Muston) (Corelli). 9.36: Beniamino Gigli (tenor), “The Lotus Flower” (Schumann); “A Dream” (Grieg). 9.42: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter. “Siegfried Idyll” (Wagner). 10.0: Music, mirth and inelody. 11.0: Close down. 3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.35: Talk, “Arable Farming.” 7.45: Talk, Mr E. J. Riches, “The International Labour Conference.” 8.0: Wilhelm Furtwangler with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, “Der Freischutz” Overture (Weber). 8.1.1: John McCormack (tenor), “Who Is Sylvia” (Schubert); “Music of the Night”; "A Song Remembered" (Eric Coates); “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal” (Quilter). 8.23: A joint recital by Betty and Vivienne Blamires—two New Zealand musicians who returned from London recently. 8.38: The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian Caprice iZador). 8.45’ Alfred Lorence (bass-baritone). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk, H. Granville Barker. “Shakespeare.” 9.20: The London Palladium Orchestra, “Master Melodies.” 9.26: Rita Jamieson (mezzo-contralto), “When the Lilacs Bloom Again” (Doelle); “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes” (Lambert); “Ashes of Roses” (Woodman); “Rendezvous” (Aletter). 9.36: Norwegian Light Symphony Orchestra, Fantasia on Norwegian Folk Songs (arr. Halond). 9.44: “The Blue Danube” (episode 16). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. 4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 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 19. 20). 8.42: Reserved. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: The 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra, Allegro Vivace e con Brio and Allegro Vivace from Symphony No. 8 in F Minor (Beethoven). 9.20: Readings by Professor T. D. Adams, with musical interludes. 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close down. Empire Programme. GSD, 25.52 m.; GSB, 31.55 m.; GSF, 19.82 m.; GSO, 19.76 m.; GSI, 19.66 m. 5.0 p.m.: “Arms and the Man’ (part HI). 5.50: “Grieg”—Norina Semino (violoncello), and John Pauer (pianoforte). 6.20: Old-time music-hall songs. 6.30: News. 6.45: Short, talks on matters of topical interest. 7.0: “The Adventures of Alonzo MacTavish” (7). 7.20 (till close down): Sports news, market notes, and next week’s programmes.