THURSDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 31

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JANUARY 4, 1940

WA AUCKLAND [| 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oa.m. BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Close down 10. O Devotional Service 10.15 Selected recordings 11. 0 "Bits and Pieces": A _ talk by "Isobel " 11.11 Selected recordings 12. O Luncheon 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. 0 Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella " 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Gavotte" (Thomas); "Estrellita"’ (Ponce); "Indian Bridal March" (Siede); "Monika" (Kotscher); "China Doll Parade’ (Zamecnik); "Tango. Marina’ (Schmidseder); "From Near and Far’ (arr. Gotz Hohne); "Song Without Words" (Lohr); ‘Songs Without Words" (Mendelssohn); "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes’; ‘Japanese Lantern Dance’ (Yoshitomo); ‘Hungarian Quick Czardas Dances’; ‘Gallantry’ (Borchert); "Love was Born Like a Wonder" (Doelle); "Let's Make a Wish" (Silvers); "Acclamations" (Waldteufel); _ "Viennese Music Everywhere’; "Gavotte" (Gossec). 6.55 Weather report 7-0 NEWS AND REPORTS 8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Mr. Chalmers, K.C.: "The Bannister Case" (chapter 2) A further exploit of that very confident and very successful barrister-detective, Royston Chalmers. First interviewing his client and learning the details of the case; then, often at considerable risk to himself, going down the tortuous byways of the criminal underworld to complete his evidence, Royston Chalmers and his faithful clerk, Hamilton, often succeed where the police have been forced to confess themselves baffled.

8.15 8.45 9.34 9.47 10. 0 11. 0 "Wandering with the West Wind " "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s " Reserved Weather report and station notices Recordings: The Upper Norwood Crystal Palace Band, March, "The Emblematic Pie: 05 aetev'iu . Marshall Band of the 55th Battalion, N.S.W. Rifles, "Coriolanus" ...... Jenkins "Dad and Dave" Recordings: Band of H.M. Welsh Guards, "Samum" ,. arr. Robrecht George Baker (baritone), "Give Me the Rolling Sea" (May) Massed Bands, "Champion March Medley" arr. Mackler Will Osborne and his Orchestra, with instrumental interludes by Ted Steele’s Novatones CLOSE DOWN UW 2X ‘oka ie 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 8. 0 8.20 9. 0 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music hour: Artur Schnabel (piano), ‘" Sonata in € Minor," the " Pathetique’"’ (Beethoven) Alexandra Trianti (soprano), Conraad V. Bos (piano), ‘"*A Maiden’s First Love Song," ‘The Fairy Binsefuss," "Let Spiteful Tongues Say What They Please,’ " Little Head, Do Not Whimper’" (Wolf) Busch Quartet, "Quartet in D Minor ". (Schubert) Classical recitals Variety Close down

2M WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. © 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 12. O Lunch music | 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 2. 0 Classical hour 3. 0 Sports results Selected recordings 3.28 to 3.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers 4. 0 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Peter 5.45 DINNER SESSION: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Marriage of Figaro’ (Mozart); "Skies of Blue" (Kutsch);. "The Gipsy Princess" (Kalman); "Liebestraum Nach Dem Balle" (Czibulka); "An Old World Garden"; ‘‘The Playful Pelican’. (Yorke); ‘"‘Hejre Kati’ (Hubay); "Liebst du Mich’ (Schroder); "‘Le Plus Joli Reve’ (Arezzo); "An Evening With You" (from "Colleen’’) (Dubin); "Hungarian Dance No. 8" (Brahms); ""None But The Weary Heart" (Tchaikovski); "Victor Herbert Melodies’; "The Frolicsome Hare’ (Hope); "Mexicali Rose" (Fierney); ‘"‘Souvenir’ (Drdla); "Intermezzo" (Taylor); "Spanish Dance" (Moszkowshi). 6.55 Weather report 7-0 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28 to 7.30 Time signals ; "Who’s Who and What’s What?": A ramble in the news by * Coranto " 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME From the Exhibition Studio: Taylor’s Novelty Band, "La Paloma" .... Yradier "The Fleet’s in Port Again" Gay 8. 9 Recording: The Comedy Harmonists (male quintet), "Whistle While You Work" Churchill-Morey 8.12 D. Gordon Paris (electric guitar), "O Sole Mio" .. Di Capua Medley of March Trios "Blaze Away" . Holzman "Our Director" "Stars and Stripes" . Sousa 8.19 Recordings: Joe Green (Xylophone), and Milt Herth (organ), "Lady of Spain" Evans-Reeves-Damerell

8.38 8.44 8.48 8.54 9.34 9.49 Terence Lacey (tenor), Presents a group of three Irish songs: "Lesbia Hath a Beaming Eye" Moore "A Fairy Song by the Fire" Merikanto "Casey the Fiddler" Haydn Wood Recordings Harry Horlick and his Orchestra, "Gipsy Love" Waltz Lehar Daphne Lowe (soprano), "One Look at You" Kahn-Stothart-Ward Taylor’s Novelty Band, "La Golandrina" . Serradell "Sons of the Brave" Bidgood Recording: Light Opera Company, "Very Good Eddie" Vocal Gems eeeeeeeaeeeeeaee ee Kern D. Gordon Paris (electric guitar), "Orange Grove in California" Berlin "Hawaiian Love" ... Lopez Recording: Barnabas von Geczy and his Orchestra, " Adua" March ..,.. Olivieri Reserved Weather report and station notices Recital programme, featuring the NBS String Orchestra, and Cecily Audibert (soprano) The NBS String Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Clare, "Concerto for Strings" John Humphries Adagio Allegro Adagio Allegro Quasi Menuetto Cecily Audibert (soprano), presents: "La Partida" ..... Alvarez ~ SOUR nod ane dean Oe " Plaisir " . Martini * Che. Fiera * 3; " "Pur Dicesti"......... Lotti The NBS String Orchestra, "Serenade" (Op. 23) George Henschel Marcia Andante Finale AY G Moe sm" 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 0 °o 9. 0 0 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music hour, featuring at 8.16, "Suite for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello and Harp" (d‘Indy) Melody and humour As They Come: Light recitals by Joe Green (marimba and xylophone), Charles Kullman (tenor), and the Salon Orchestra Close down

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SV CHRISTCHURCH : 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Oam. 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 under the auspices of the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women 11.30 Selected recordings 12. 0 Lunch masic 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 3. 0 Classical music 4.0 Frost and special weather forecast and light musical programme 4.30 Sports results 5.0 Children’s session. "Kiwi Club " 6.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "March Review Medley" (arr. Wottachach); "Give Me Your Heart’ (Gade); "Il Have a Heart For Lovely Women" (Kunneke); ‘‘Entr’acte’’ (Helmesberger); ‘‘At Dawning" (Cadman); "La © Farruca"’ (Gomz); "Irish Medley’; "A Smile and a Kiss" (Busch); "Evensong" (Martini); "Gavotte tn EB’ (Bach); ‘"‘Medley of Folk All programmes in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted without permission. These programmes are correct as we. go to press. Any last-minute alterations will be announced over the air.

Songs" (arr Lutzow); "Just a Little Adventure’ (Rust); "Hungarian Flower Waliz" (trad.); "Born to Dance" (Porter). 6.55 Weather report 7. 0 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.35 Review of the Journal of Agriculture 8.0 "The Woman in White." A dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’s thriller by George Edwards and Company 8.15 "Personal Column." Drama from the agony column of a newspaper 8.30 "Coronets of England." . The Life of Henry VIII. 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 DANCE MUSIC 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN STV A CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c.. 250 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings "7.0 After dinner music 8. 0 Band programme, with spoken iné‘ terludes 8.32 Musical comedy and light opera 9.0 -* ery and Gardens," a programme featuring C. H. Middleton, eminent gardening personality 9.30 David Copperfield (episode 34) 9.44 Leo Stin (organ) 9.47 Alfred, Piccaver 9.58 becca All-Star Revue 10. 0 Keep smiling 10.30 Close down

ANY DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6.50 a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. 0 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" 12. O. Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 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 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption bY: re-br oadcasts) "Schubert Waltzes;" "Dreaming Bells" (Krome); "Bubbling Over" (Gibbons); "By the Sleepy Lagoon" (Eric Coates); "My Lucky Day" (Carste); ‘Arie’ (Lotti); "Down the Mall’ (Belton); ""Vienna Maidens’ (Ziehrer); ‘Marche Symphonique" (Savino); ‘Mississippi’ (Rodgers); ‘‘Danube Waves" (lvanovici); "In a Persian Market" (Ketelbey); ‘Dolores’ (Waldteufel); "‘Moonbeams Dance" (Gibbons); "Wine, Women and Song’ (Strauss). 655 Weather report 7. 0 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.30 Gardening talk 8. 0 Concert by the CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, featuring Bohemian composers Soloists: Heinrich Rehkemper (baritone), Joseph Szigeti (violin) The Orchestra, conducted by Vaclav Talich, "Carneval Overture ". Dvorak 8.10 Heinrich Rehkemper (baritone), "Songs on the Death of Infantae 5% sccve von Mahler "Once More the Sun Would Gild the Morn" "Ah! Now I Know Why Oft’ I Caught You Gazing " "When Thy Mother Dear" "I Think Oft’ They’ve Only Gone a Journey " This song-cycle is one of Gustav’s Mahler’s finest works. It was composed during the period 1901-02 when Mahler was at the height of his powers. Each one of . these five settings of Ruckert’s poems are imbued with deep tragedy. The vocal lines are expressive of the emotional significance of the words. 8.17 The Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik, "My Country " .+. Smetana (From Bohemia’s Meadows and Forests) 8.29 Joseph Szigeti (violin), "Slavonic Dance in E Minor," "Slavonic Dance in G Minor" Dvorak-Kreisler

8.37 The Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik, "My Country " (The Moldau) Smetana 8.49 Dame Clara Butt (contralto), Two Biblical songs by Dvorak "Clouds and Darkness Are About Him" "Lord, Thou Art My Refuge and My Shield" 8.55 The Orchestra, "Slavonic Dance, No. 3, in A Flat Major, Op. 46" Dvorak 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vaclav Talich, "Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, Cs AG Se eis .« Dvorak Allegro maestoso Poca adagio Scherzo (vivace) Finale (Allegro) 10.5 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN 4) Y ©) 1140 k.c. 263 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Rosalie and Her Romances 8.30 Dancing time 8, 0 Night Nurse 9.13 Records at random, interrupting at 9.30, "The Homestead on the Rise" 10.0 Three" revcitalists, featuring John Hendrik (tenor), De Groot Trio, Seven Singing Sisters 40.30 Close down

January 4, 1940

‘l y 680k.c. 441 m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session / 41, 0 Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. 0 Dance music 6.30 Children’s session: "David and Dawn in Fairyland" 6.45 Light music 6. 0 ‘Personal Column" 6.16 Reserved 6.45 ‘The Moonstone" 7. 0 After dinner music 7.30 Station announcements 8.0 Book talk, by H. B. Farnall, City Librarian 8.16 ‘Khyber: Turning the Tables" 8.45 New dance releases ©. 0 Reserved @.30 In the Sports Club with CG. 8./ Dempster: A review of New Zea- | land cricket form at the end of the 1939 season 9.49 Fun and frolic 10,0 Close down SYZAR?, GREYMOUTH 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 8.0 Morning programme 10, 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon music Broadcast of races from Victoria Park (first day of Greymouth Trotting Club’s meeting) 12.30 Reserved 41.0 Weather report 8.0 Afternoon programme 4. 0 Reserved 4.30 Weather report / 6. 0 Children’s session: "David and Dawn in Fairyland" 6.30 Dancing time 5.45 Dinner music 6.15 Reserved 6.40 After dinner music 7.20 Rhythm All the Tim 7.32 Silas Marner . 7.45 Chamber music: Henry Koch (violin), and Charles van Lancker (piano), playing ‘"Senata in @G Major for Violin) and Piano" (Lekeu)

8.17 8.20 8.33 8.47 9. 0 9.20 9.32 10. 0 Julius Patzak (tenor), * Die Stadt Der Lieder" (Hoffmann Boyd Neel String Orchestra, in "Adagio for String Orchestra" (Lekeu Sportsmen’s Intelligence Test No. 1 Hawaiian echoes Reserved Lorna Doone Hit parade of yesterday Close down QV in) AP lee 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 44. 6 5.45 DDD ago 0 — ao oo @ wo wah. £ pe Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 0 Light music For the children, featuring ‘* Coral Cave "’ "Pinto Pete in Arizona" Light music Weather report and forecast for llawke’s Bay "Dad and Dave" Light music approx, Inspector Scott of Scotland Yard: " The Case of the Kidnapped Heir "’ Light popular programme Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, "Student Prince Selection " BBC recorded feature: "The Fol de Rolls" Roston Promenade Orchestra, "Vienna Blood" Waltz, "Entrance of the Little Fauns," ‘* Mosquito Dance " Cor Steyn (organ), "In Buddha’s Realm," ‘Monkey Tricks" Reserved Light variety and dance music Close down QYN po = a. 7. 0 8 0 9. 0 9.15 9.30 10, 0 p.m. Light music Concert programme of chamber music, featuring Egon Petri (pianist), " Variations and Fuaue on a Theme by Handel" (Brahms), "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (schu-bert-Liszt) "His Last Plunge" (41) Humorous interlude Music for the dancers (In strict time) Close down QV] WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303m. ann 0 36 46 24 .20 .40 p.m. Premiere The Crimson Trail Ensemble: Orchestral combinations from famous rendezvous ‘* Thrills " 2YD Singers "A Sporting Interlude: A chat with W. J. R. Christopherson, Wellington, sole selector on the two Plunket Shield games played in Wellington over the holidays A Soldier of Fortune Youth must have its swing: A. weekly session of modern rhythm, conducted by ‘‘ Radiogram "’ Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250k.c. 240m, 5. G 6.20 7..0 7.45 8. 0 9. 0 9.30 10. 0 pm Light orchestral and popular recordings Band music, plano-accordion numbers Sports session: " Bill’ Hendry "The Life of Cleopatra" Rallad and musical comedy memories. Western songs: ‘Half hour with the Rocky Mountaineers" Miscellaneous items Close down