FRIDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 23, 1 December 1939, Page 35

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DECEMBER 8

VY AUCKLAND | 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 98. 0 Close down 10. O Devotional service, conducted by Pastor E. P. Aderman 10.15 Selected recordings 11. 0 Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings ~A2. O Lunch music 2. Op.m. 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. O Children’s session, conducted by "Cinderella" and " Aunt Jean" with the special recorded feature: "David and Dawn in Fairyland" 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Evensong’ (Easthope Martin); "Au Bord D’'Une Source’ (Liszt); ""When Love Dies" (Cremieur); "‘Le Cygne" ("The Swan’) (Saint-Saens); "Simonetta" (Curson); "Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55" (Grieg); "Whenever I Dream of You" (Schimmelpfennig); "Serenade Spaniola, No. {" (Jonescu Gaina); "Vienna Citizen" (Ziehrer); "Thousand and One Nights’ (Strauss-Benedict); "‘Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes" (Sear); ‘"‘Sunset’’ (Matt); "Mazurka-Waltz Fantasy" (Kreuder); "German Dances" (Mozart). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 SPORTS TALK, by Gordon Hutter

8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Recordings: Sir Thomas Beecham, conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Faust" Overture . Wagner 8.14 Enrico Caruso (tenor), "Les Rameaux" .... Faure w?aposannn 5 6 -» Granier 8.22 Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, " Pavane, " "Jig" ..... Byrd-Stokowski 8.28 Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Arthur Cranmer and_ the Queen’s Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Irving, "The Immortal Hour" Rutland Boughton As a composer, Rutland Boughton allied himself with the poet, Reginald Buckley, in the project of producing a cycle of musical dramas, on a Wagnerian scale and of nationalist import, to be called "Arthur of Britain."" He chose Glastonbury as his British Bayreuth, carrying on annual festivafs in its town hall, preparatory to building a festival theatre. These have since been abandoned, the measure of public support not being sufficiently great for the carrying out of so ambitious and costly a scheme. ‘" The Immortal Hour" was produced at Glastonbury in 1914, 8.46 Henry Shirley (piano), "Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14" Mendelssohn "Sing a Song of Sixpence" Leo Livens "Moments Musicaux, No. 6 and No. 5" .....:. Schubert 9. @ Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 Recordings: Charles Panzera (baritone), in a group of Schumann songs "Tf Only the Flowers Could Know," "The Flutes and Fiddles are Sounding" "Whene’er I Hear Them Singing, " "A Youth Once Loved a Maiden," " Alone on a Summer Morning," "I Wept As I Lay Dreaming " 9.33 Madrid Symphony Orchestra "La Procesion Del Rocio" Turina 9.41 Elisabeth Schumann (soprano) "Cradle Song of the Virgin | i Ea eRe Bese ..-.. Reger pee ys 7 Sigg Dara Reger 9.47 Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, "Eight German Dances" Mozart 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN | y 880k.c. 341m. 5.0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 ‘Romance and Melody " 8.15 Popular radio concert 9. 0 "Tit-Bits of To-day: Hits of Yesterday " 9.30 Variety corner 410..0 Light recitals, featuring Fred Hart"Jey’s Quintet 10.30 Close down

DAY | WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. 0. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28to10.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 Talk to women by "Margaret" 12. 0 Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 0 Classical hour 0 TALK, prepared by the A.C.E. Home Science Tutorial Section of Otago University: "How to get 100% Value from Your Refrigerator" 3.15 Sports Results Selected recordings 3.28 to3.30 Time signals Weather forecast for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 4.0 Sports resulis 5. O Children’s session, conducted by Andy Man s 5.45 DINNER SESSION: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Dorothy" (Cellier); "Until" (Sanderson); "Birthday March’ (Kahne); "‘Where the Woods Are Green’ (Brodsky); "Black and Tan Polka’ (Lowthian); "Cuckoo in the Clock" (Collins); "‘Funiculi Funicula’ (Denza); "The Sphinx" (Popy); ‘Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" (Jessel); ‘From Opera to Opera’ (Schestak); "My Chin Chin Lu" (Scott-Tonkinoise); "The Cabaret Girl" (Kern); "Military March in E Flat’ (Schubert); "‘A Girl Like Nina" (AbrahamHammerstein). 6.55 Weather report 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28t07.30 Time signals 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME From the Exhibition Studio: "Song Hits with a Miss" Featuring Mavis Edmonds and Her Rhythm Makers 8.32 Dramatic Novelty: "What Do You Think?" (Presentation No. 4) 8.42 Recording: Albert Sandler Trio (instrumental), "Victor Herbert Melodies" 8.45 Announcement of Result of Dramatic. Novelty

8.46 Thomas West (tenor), "Castles in the Air" .. Linck "Santa Lucia" ... Marzials "The Springtime Reminds Me Or On fo. 2 ees durman 8.56 Albert Sandler Trio (instrumental), "Shy Serenade" Scott-Wood 9. O Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.26 "Eb and Zeb" 9.35 PROGRAMME BY THE PORT NICHOLSON SILVER BAND Conductor: J. J. Drew March: "New Zealand CenCena" cat Tipe Pettit Dervish chorus: "In the Renate tly eee . Sebek 9.44 Ena Rapley (soprano), "The Thrush" . Edith Harrhy "Echo " Lord Henry Somerset "Fragile Things" .. Phillips 9.53 The Band: "Popular Numbers ": "They Say" .... Heyman "One Day When We Were pC Sadee eee e Strauss "We're Going to Hang Our Washing on the Siegfried SAMO i556 kgdae ce eee (Vocalist: Miss Beryl Goodall) 10. 2 Recording: | Dick Todd (baritone), with "The Three Reasons" (vocal trio): "Penny Serenade" Hallifax-Weersma 10. 5 The Band: Hymn: "Deep Harmony" arr. Scotney Paraphrase: " Faust" Lange March: "It’s up to You" 10.15 Rhythm on Record: A programme of new dance recordings, compered by " Turntavle " 11.15 CLOSE DOWN QVC MRM 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 6 After dinner music 8. O Unusual recordings: A light continuity programme _ introducing some unusual recordings which are not often broadcast 9. O Salon music, introducing, at 9.13, " Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, OP. 30, No. 2" (Beethoven), played by Adolf Busch (violin) and Rudolf Serkin (piano) 10. 0 ‘ Comedia" 10.30 Close down

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IS Y 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. 0 Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 41. 0 Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 11.15 Talk by Mrs. A. Barrett: "Help for the Home Cook" 11.30 Selected recordings 12. O Lunch music 2. Gp.m. Selected recordings 3. 0 Classical music 4.0 Frost and special weather forecast, and light musical programme 4.30 Sports results 6. O Children’s session 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "The Leek" (Middleton); "Underneath the Lilac Tree" (Schubert-Berte); "Born To Dance"’ (Porter); "El __ Relicario" Padilla); * ‘Love and Spring’ (Waldteufel); ‘Charm of the Valse’ (arr. Winter); "Love's Call’ (Scharf); "Tritsch Tratsch" (Strauss); "‘Songs Without Words’ (Mendelssohn); "Intermezzo" (Strauss); ‘‘Little Flatterer"’ (Eilenberg); ‘‘Offenbachiana’ (arr. Finck) 655 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.45 TALK, under the auspices of The Christchurch Branch of National Council of Women 8. 0 Special radio presentation of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "THE GONDOLIERS " 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Weather forecast and station notices 9.25 Recordings: Light Symphony Orchestra, "Springtime Suite" . Coates

9.37 9.43 (a) Fresh Morning (b) Noonday Song (c) Dance in the Twilight Harold Williams (baritone), (a) "If I Might Come to SO | Si tere cet oree Squire (b) "In An Old Fashioned BS ree ree Squire New Mayfair Orchestra, "Britelodia" (Selection of British melodies) Humphries

9.51 9.57 10. 0 11.10 Margaret Sheridan (soprano), (a) "The Meeting of the WeMSOOe ei css so 8S Moore (b) "The Lover’s Curse" arr. Hughes New Light Symphony Orchestra, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" .. arr. Quilter MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY CLOSE DOWN SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings 7.0 8. 0 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music "The Messiah’ (Handel), for soli, chorus, orchestra and organ, by combined choirs of Royal Musical Society and Christchurch Cathedral, conducted by Frederick Bullock. Organist, C. Foster Browne. Soloists: Master Robert Dodgson (soprano), Nellie Lowe (contralto), Ernest Rogers (tenor), Charles Clarkson (bass). (Relayed from the Christchurch Cathedral) Light recitals Close down

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 aly DUNEDIN | 790 k.c. 380 m. |.

10.15 10.50 11. 0 12. 0 Devotional Service Talk to women by "Margaret" Talk by Miss I. Findlay: "Cooking and Recipes" Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for 2.0 3.15 4. 0 4.30 5. 0 aviators Weather forecast Selected recordings TALK, by the A.C.E. Home Science Tutorial Section: "A New Room but the same Furniture " 3.30 Sports results Classical music’ Weather report and special frost forecast Light musical programme 4.45 Sports results Children’s session, conducted by Big Brother Bill with Uncles Tam and Lex and the 4YA Botany Club

5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Czardas" (Grossman); "Litile Birds’ Evening Song’ (Richards); "Legend of St. Francis of Assisi’ (Liszt); "Praeludium" (Jarnefeldt); "Roses of Picardy’ (Haydn Wood); "Maruschka" (de Leur); ‘"‘Lulu" (Meisel); "La Czarine’ (Ganne); "A Fragile Spring has Blossomed Forth’ (Praetorious); "Cuban Serenade" (Midgley); "A Brown Bird Singing’ (Haydn Wood); ‘‘Before an Old Musical Clock’ (Melborn); "The Phantom Melody" (Ketelbey); ‘‘Adoration’ (Fillipucci);. "Cheerful Vienna" (Meisel); "Calm as the Night’’ (Bohm). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.40 TALK, by T. O’Shea: "Tomorrow’s Cricket Matches " 8.0 "Dad and Dave" 8.15 "Pinto Pete in Arizona" Fifteen minutes of song and dance from the Wild West. 8.30 "The Rich Uncle from Fiji" A sparkling comedy serial A comedy feature introducing’ Mr. James Fordyee of Fiji, possessor of an unworked gold mine, a very slim pocket-book, and a seemingly inexhaustible capacity for bluffing his way through any Situation. 8.42 A sketch: "Money for Nothing-" The scene is set in a workman’s cottage (A BBC production) 8.57 Emil Roosz and his Orchestra "Red Poppies" ....... Balz 9.0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.30 READINGS, by Prof. T. D, Adams, with musical interludes Readings from "Maid Marian," by Thomas Love Peacock; "A Rescue by Robin Hood " Music from Edward German: "Merrie England" 10. 0 Dance music by the Savoy Dance Band (relay from Savoy Restaurant) 11.0 CLOSE DOWN aly DUNEDIN 1140 k.c. 263 m, 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. O After dinner music as 8. 0 Classics for the connoisseur: featuring the Milan Symphony Orchestra and, at 8.21, Dora Labbette and the Leeds Festival Choir in "Kyrie Eleison,’’ from Mozart’s "Mass in C Minor" 9.0 "Nigger Minstrels" 9.13 Variety 10. 0 Melody and humour 10.30 Close down

For Book-Lovers REVIEWS: 1YA: 3YA: 4YA: 4YZ: Wednesday, December 6, at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, December 5, at 7.35 p.m. Miss G. M. Glanville Wednesday, December 6, at 7.30 p.m. Thursday, December 7, at 8 p.m. H. B. Farnall READINGS: 3YA: 4YA: O. L. Simmance, from Dickens and Swift. Wednesday, December 6, at 8 p.m. E Professor Adams, from Thomas Love Peacock: Friday, December 8, at 9.30 p.m,

DICK WHITTINGTON.

December 8

G\N7 77 INVERCARGILL 689 k.c. 441 m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 9. 0-10.0 Morning programme 41.0 Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. 0 Light music 5.30 Children’s session: *‘ The Legends of Umbopo 5.45 Laugh -and sing 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Buckaroos"’ 6.15 Reserved 6.45 ‘Marie Antoinette" 7. 0 Re-broadcast of Official News 7.10 (approx.) After dinner music (7.30, station announcements) 8. 0 Choosing a Career, No. 6: "Farming," by W. R. Harris 8.15 ‘A London Symphony" (Vaughan Williams), played by the Queen’s Hall Orchestra; and Tiana Lemnitz (soprano) 9. O Reserved 9.30 Thrills 9.42 RKhythm time 10. 0 Close down SZ 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 9. 0 Morning programme 8.30 Recipes, etc., by Josephine Clare 9.45 Reserved 10. 0-10.10 Weather report Yi2. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon music 12.30 Keserved 141. 0 Weather report 8. 0 Afternoon programme 4. 0 Reserved 4.30 Weather and shipping news 5. O Richard the Lion-Heart 5.15 Children’s session 6. O Dinner music 6.15 Reserved 7. 0 News Service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.20 Around the band stand

7.40 Wanda Landowska (harpsichord), " Turkish March" 7.43 Clapham and Dwyer 7.60 Billy Mayerl (piano) 7.566 Renee Houston, with Pat. Aherne 8.0 Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra, and Charles Kullman (tenor) 8.30 Swing carnival 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 George Edwards and Company: "The Aristocrat "’ 9.46 Carson Robison and his Pioneers 10. O Close down NAPIER 7. 0-9.0a.m. Breakfast session 11. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 5. O Light music 5.30. Uncle Charlie and Aunt Nin 6. O Light music 6.45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay. *‘Lorna Doone" 7. 0 Re-broadcast of Government News 7.15 Capprox.) After dinner music 8. 0 Concert session 8. 2 BBC Symphony Orchestra, "Tragic Overture" (Brahms) 8.14 Joseph Szigeti (violin), "Sonata in E Minor" (Mozart) 8.22 Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, * Slavonic March" (Tchaikovski) 8.31 Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone) 9. O. Reserved 9.20 Light music 9.45 "Joan of Aro" 10. 0 Close down QVIN ste nm. 7. Op.m. Light music, including ‘" Carson Robison and Pioneers " 8. 0 Concert programme: Light classical music 8.30 Sketches and light music 9. 0 Grand opera excerpts 9.35 ‘The Japanese Houseboy ", 10. 0 Close down : 2QV/ WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303 m. 7. Op.m. Showmen of Syncopation 7.35 a from the Diary of a Film an 8.5 Musical digest 8.28 Carson Robison .and his Buckaroos 8.45 Wandering with the West Wind, by the Wayfarer 9.15 Supper dance 9.45 Records at random 410. 0 Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250 k.c. 240m. 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular recordings 7. O Orchestral numbers 7.30 Popular medleys 8. 0 "Maorilander": Tit-Bits 8.20 Concert session 9.20 Instrumental items 9.35 Pamela’s weekly chat 10. O Close down