FRIDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 4, 21 July 1939, Page 35

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JULY 28

VW AUCKLAND | 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Devotional Service, conducted by Rev. C. W. Duncomb 10.15 Selected recordings 11. O Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.19 Selected recordings 12. 0 Lunch music 2. O Selected recordings 2.30 Classical hour 3.15 "Sports results 3.30 Light musical programme 4. 0 Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session, conducted by "Cinderella" and " Aunt Jean" 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Fra Diavelo"’ Overture (Auber); "You're All I Need" (Jurmann); "* Mikado" Selection (Sullivan); ‘Song of the Vagabonds"’ (Friml); "The Good Old Days" Medley (Koek); "Tina" (Rubens); " Nautical Moments’ Medley (arr. Winter); " Etude, No. 7" Transcription (Chopin); " La Cimarostana"" (Cimarosa); ‘ Radetzky March" (Johann Strauss), 7. O09 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY | THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx. ) 7.30 SPORTS TALK, Gordon Hutter 7.45 "Is New Zealand Rugby Deteriorating?" A discussion by George Aitken, captain of All Blacks v. Springboks, 1921 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Professor W. A, Sewell, "THE GROWTH OF THE POET’S MIND," (4) Wordsworth 8.32 The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Ludwig, "‘Leonore No. 3, Op. 72A" Overture ......,.. Beethoven Beethoven wrote four Overtures to his one and only opera * Fidelio," which was first produced in Vienna, November 20th, 1805. The Overtures are known as ‘" Leonora,"’ Nos, ft, 2 and 3, and " Fidelio." The first three take their names from. the original title of the. opera ‘‘ Leonore, ou L’amour Conjugal." The work had several vicissitudes of fortune before it became a success, and for each new production he wrote a fresh Overture, 8.44 Nancy Evans (contralto), Max Gilbert (viola), Myers Foggin (piano), * Song. for Voice, Viola and US oe Bi 6524 es Brahms 8.51 Edwin Fischer (piano), "Prelude and shee ce in D Major" No. 5 .... Bach 8.53 Leopold the Philadelphia Sympho ny Orchestra, "Choral Prelude: ‘ Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death’" Bach-Stokowski "Fugue in G Minor" Bach-Stokowski 9. 0 Weather a and cerca notices

8. & Mary Murphy (soprano), "Three Aspects," "A Fairy Town," "There" Sir Hubert Parry 9.15 Recordings: London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens "LE COQ D’OR" SUITE (The Golden Cockerel) Rimsky-Korsakov "The Golden Cockerel " (‘‘ Le Cog d’Or "’) was. Rimsky-Korsakov’s last opera, but it was not produced till after his death, the Russian censor having prohibited its performance, It was thought that certain high personages of the Russian Court had been satirised in the text, but whether this was sO or not, the prohibition is said to have hastened the composer’s death, which 0o¢curred June 21, 1908. 9.40 Vladimir Rosing (tenor), "The Rose and the Nightingale" (Rimsky Korsakov), "Southern Night" (RimskyKorsakov), " The Sea" (Borodine) 9.46 Schneevoigt, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, "Homage March" ("Sigurd Jorsalfar") .......... Grieg 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN | Y 880k.c. 341m, 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light musical programme 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 ‘Organ Reveries " 8.15 Comedians’ Corner 8.45 Pianos and rhythm 9. 0 "Crazy Couplets " 9.30 Musical comedy and light opera 10. O Light recitals, including the Kardosch Singers 10.30 Close down

AY | WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. O Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28 t0 10.30 Time signals BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS. FROM THE "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 2. 0 Classical music 2.30 BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 5.30 Children’s session, featuring "Coral Cave" (episode 29) 6. 0 DINNER SESSION. "The Geisha’’ Selection (Jones); ‘‘ The Door of Her Dreams" (Hammerstein); " Dubinuschka’"’ (Schirmann); ** At Dawning"’ (Cadman); " Liebeslieder"’ (Strauss); " Give Me Your Heart"’ (Gade); " Evening Song" (Abenleid) (Schumann); " Bal Masque’ (Fletcher); "German Dances-Minuets, Nos. 2 and 4" (Schubert); ‘ Symphonic Waltz Suite"’ (Melichar); ‘‘ P and O Polka"’ (Bucalossi); "A Sunday Afternoon" (Ketelbey); " Cradle Song’ and " Waltz in A Flat, Op. 39, No. 15" (Brahms); " River Reveries."’ : 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT., ALSO BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS

aS? Sem 7.10 (approx.) NEWS AND REPORTS 7.28t07.30 Time signals 7.40 8.10 8.18 8.24 8.33 8.44 "Is New Zealand Rugby Deteriorating?" A discussion by E. J. (Teddy) Roberts, halfback, All Blacks v. Springboks, 1921 NEWS Wilhelm Furtwangler, conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, "Die Fledermaus " Overture Strauss Members of the Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists, of the Berlin State Opera House, "Extract from the Opera ‘Czar and Carpenter’" Lortzing Herbert Jager (piano), "Willi Kollo Here Again" (Medley) ...... Kollo-Steinel Victor Haven (tenor), " Serenade ". .Schubert-Haven "Serenade" ... Toselli-Elkin Albert Sandler and his Orchestra, "Play, Gipsy Play" (from "Countess Maritza") .Kalman Irene Bordoni (soprano), "Bon Jour, Mam’selle" Gordon-Revel Leopold Ludwig, conducting the Berlin State Opera House Orchestra, "Emperor Waltz". ..Strauss Recorded TALK: "LEAVES FROM A BACKBLOCKS DIARY" (4) — " Isolation," by Mrs. Mary Scott Weather report and station notices Eb and Zeb . The second part of a concert arranged by Wellineton Col-

10. 0 lege in ald of the Wellington College Musical Fund. (Relayed from Wellington Town Hall) Rhythm on_ record. Programme of new dance recordings, compered by "Turn10.28 to 10.30 Time signals 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN ZY GC MEELIMG TOR 10.30 p.m. Selected recordings 10.45 12. 0 1.0 2.30 . o 3.30 PNP AA r) So0080 10. 0 10.30 Talk to women by " Margaret " Lunch music Close down Classical music Talk prepared by the A.C.E. Home Science Tutorial Section of Otago University: ** Can Sea Foods Combat Goitre?" Selected recordings Sports results Weather forecast for farmers, and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 4.0 Sports results Children’s session Light musical programme Close down After dinner music * tn an Old World Garden * "Neath Italian Skies": A programme featuring " The Songs and Melodies of Italy " "Sonata Hour," introducing at 9.17 p.m. " Sonata for viola and piano " (Bliss), played by Watson Forbes (viola) and Myers Foggin (piano) In lighter vein Close down

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Vi CHRISTCHURCH 5 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Ja.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Close down 10. O Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 11. 0 Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 11.15 TALK, by Mrs. Dorothy E. Johnson: "HELP FOR THE HOME COOK" 11.30 Selected recordings 12. O Lunch music 2. 0 Selected recordings 3. 9 Classical music 4.0 Frost and special weather forecast and light music 4.30 Sports resulis 5. 0 Children’s session, with, at 5.45 p.m., a talk by Miss D. Walsh on " Dressmaking" as a Career for Girls 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "An Old World Garden’’ Medley; * Czardas Princess"’ Waltz (Kalman) ; "I Wait For You" (Spoliansky); ‘‘ Nights of Fragrance’"’ Waltz (Ziehrer); ** Only My Song * (Lehar); ‘‘Hungarian Dance, No. 3’ (Brahms); "* The Nightingale and the Frog" (Etlenberg); "The Merry Widow’ Waltz (Lehar); ‘"‘ Waltz in D Flat Major’ and "Prelude in F Major’ (Chopin); * Skies of Blue’’ Waltz (Kutsch); "The Countess Mariiza’’ Potpourri (Kalman); ‘No, No, Lulu" Valse (Valny); ‘‘ Kavalier’’ Waltz (Nebdal); " Serenade" (Livschakoff); "In Gypsy Land" (arr. Michaeloff). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.35 RECORDED TALK, by an Officer of the Department of Agriculture: "PRUNING PIP FRUITS " 8. 0 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Ludwig, " Oberon " Overture Weber 8.10 Alva Myers (soprano recital), "On the Water ", " The Rosebud" (Schubert); " Twilight Fancies ", "The Nightingale" (Delius) 8.22 Vasa Prihoda (violin), Eili, E/jli (Prihoda), Salut d’Amour (Elgar), Air from Violin Concerto in G Major (Goldmark) $34 De Svenske, the famous Swedish Male Chorus, Dance of the Judges arr. Olsson Dalvisa (Folk Song) arr. Olsson 8.40 Haagen Holenbergh, pianoforte recital, Impromptu (Sibelius), Viennese Dance (Gaertner-Fried-mann), Mephisto Waltz (Liszt) Haagen Holenbergh was solo pianist to His Majesty, King Christian X. of Denmark, and was also late Professor of the McGill University Conservatorium of Music, Montreal,

9. 0 Weather forecast and station notices 8.8 TALK, "by. P..- Hi Jones: "HAGLEY PARK " Hagley Park is the crowning glory of the public spaces of Christchurch. It is called after the seat of the Lyttelton family in England. Mr. Jones will say something about the history of this park. 9.20 Rosario Bourdon Orchestra, "The Gondoliers " Overture Sullivan 9.25 Edward Hendy (baritone), Phantom Fleets (Mulliner), Full Sail (Buck), Prentice Lads of Cheap (McCall), Song of the Thames (Murray) 9.37 Rosario Bourdon Orchestra, — Russian Sailors’ Dance Gliere Village Swallows Waltz Strauss 9.44 Essie Ackland (contralto), My Message ...., d’Hardelot Reflections. \0's.¢so00s ee Ahr Five Little Piccaninnies ' Anthony Some of New Zealand’s middle-aged concert patrons will recall the tour of the late Belgian ‘cellist, Jean Gerardy. As assisting vocalist to Gerardy there came to our shores a young Sydiey contralto, Essie Ackland, who made a favourable impression. A year or two later she went to England absolutely unknown, and sang for Leslie Boosey. 9.54 Rosario Bourdon Orchestra, Persiflage ........ Francis The Cotton Pickers .. Hare 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN SV CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 "Khyber and Beyond" (Episode 3) 8.26 Four characteristic valses 8.38 A run with the Darktown Hunt 8.44 Grandfather’s bagpipes 8.47 Don Rico and his Gipsy Girls’ Orchestra 8.53 John Henry in Paris 9. 0 Dance to famous bands 9.30 The Crimson Trail 9.44 Gilbert and Sullivan selection 9.53 Luxembourg calling 10. O Music light and lilting 10.30 Close down

d | V DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. O Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 Talk to women by "Margaret" 11. 0 Talk by Miss I. Findlay on "Cooking and Recipes" 12. O Lunch music 12.15 p.m. Community singing. (Relay from Strand Theatre) 1.0 Weather report for aviators 1.10 Community singing (approx.) 1.30 Weather forecast Lunch music 2. 0 Selected recordings 3.15 TALK by the A.C.E., Home Science Tutorial Section: "How to Run a_ Business Meeting " 3.30 Sports results Classical music | 4. 0 Weather report and special frost forecast 4.30 Light musical programme 4.45 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by Big Brother Bill 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: ‘La Tarantelle de Belphegor" (Albert); " Blue Eyes" (Mackeben); -* _ From the Old Country at Home"’ (Smetana); * * Amorettentanze"’ (Gung’'l); Variete Intermezzo" (Charlie); ‘"‘ Four Indian Love Lyrics" (Woodforde Finden); "Song of Paradise’ (King); ‘* Devotion" (Schumann); " Beautiful Spring’ Waltz (Lincke); ‘Indian Mail"’ (Lamothe); "‘ Step’ Press’’; " Glow Worm Idyll"’ (Lincke); " Gipsy, Sing For Me" (Meisel); ‘‘ Tango Des Aveux’’ (Demaret); ‘‘ Heartless’"’ (Meisel). 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS

7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 8. 0 8.15 Dad and Dave Pinto Pete in Arizona Fifteen minutes of song and dance from the Wild West. 8.30 8.42 9.15 10. 0 11. 0 The Rich Uncle from Fiji (episodes 45 and 46) "Just a Job of Work: Fares, Please." An interview with a tram conductor Weather report and station notices Gladys Moncrieff (Australia’s Queen of Song). Gil Dech at the piano, Over the Rim of the Moon .. Michael Head "The Ships of Arcady," " Beloved," " A Blackbird Singing," " Nocturne" The London Palladium Orchestra, "Childhood Memories" arr. Somers READINGS, by Professor T. D. Adams, with musical interludes Readings from " Marjorie Fleming " (Dr. John Brown) Music from Elgar " Nursery Suite" Dance music by the Savoy Dance Band. (Relay from Savoy Restaurant) CLOSE DOWN aly/ DUNEDIN 1140k.c. 263m. 5, 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7, 0 8. 0 9. 0 9.13 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Classical concert Nigger Minstrels Three-quarters of an hour of mod ern variety : Melody and humour Close down

July 28

aw INVERCARGILL 680 k.c. 441m, 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 11. 0 Recordings 12. — Op.m. Luncheon session 5. 5.45 #1 5 Light music Children’s session: ‘"* Tanglewood Tales "’ Laugh and sing Greyburn of the Salween: ‘Partners in Crime " New releases "Lorna Doone" After dinner music Station announcements Scenes from the Sporting Past: "International Rugby Match-New Zealand versus Scotland, November 18, 1905 The Nuteracker Suite (Tchaikovsk1) " Floodlight Sonata." A short radio play produced in the Invercargill studios of the National Broadcasting Service Musical comedy Supper dance Close down

SZ 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oam. Breakfast session 9. 0 Morning programme 9.30 Recipes, etc., by Josephine Clare 9.45 Recordings 10. 0-10.10 Weather report = 0-2 p.m. Luncheon music OQ Weather report 3: QO Afternoon programme 4.30 Weather and shipping news 6. QO Varieties ... This and That 6. O Dinner music 6.30 News and reports 7. O We march in step-bands 7.30 Solo concert . 8. 0 Marek Weber and his Orchestra, ¢ with Peter Dawson 8.30 ‘Dance tunes from the talkies 9, O Ivory key medleys 9.15 George Edwards and Co.: "Officers of the Law" 9.42 Sweet melodies 10. 0 Close down 2 NAPIER 760 k.c. 395 m. 7. O-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 41. O Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 65. O Light musical programme

6.30 Uncle Cuarlie and Aunt Nin 6. 0 Light music 6.45 Little Women 7. 0 After dinner music : 8. 0 Programme of concerted instrumental works, with vocal interludes Dvorak’s Concerto in A Minor (18t movements), Yehudi Menuhin and Conservatoire Concert Orchestra 8.30 Gerhard Husch (baritone), excerpts from Sechumann’s§ " Dichterliebe " song-cycle 8.38 Beethoven’s Quartet No. 15 in A Minor 9. 0 Miscellaneous light music 9.25 Night Nurse 10. 0 Close down 2 y iN] 920 k.c. 327m. Op.m. Miscellaneous light music . O Concert programme: Light classical selections .30 Light music and sketches Grand opera excerpts 0 35 The Japanese Houseboy O Close down

OVD Ske Som pm. Showmen of syncopation Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan Kecords at random : Carson Robison and his Buckaroos 2YD trailer Wandering with the West Wind, by the Wayfarer Supper dance 9.45 Musical digest: Recordings from all sources 10. 0 Close down ]2[M) AUCKLAND o wom vx Ro = PAN Go gloaa 1250 k.c. 240m. 41ZM--FRIDAY, JULY 28 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular selections 6.45 News, announcements 7. 0 Orchestral 7.30 songs of the past 8..0 Maorilander: " Tit Bits" 8.20 Walter Glynne 8.40. Twenty minutes with Colombo’s Tziganes 9. O Hints to women, Miss Kay Goodson 9.20 Instrumental 9.35 Pamela’s weekly chat 10. 0 Close down