MONDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 17

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NY AUCKLAND | . 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Daventry news 10. 0 Devotional Service 10.15 Selected recordings 41. O Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 12. O Lunch music 12:30 p.m. Daventry news 2.0 Selected recordings 2.30 Classical hour 3.15 Sports results 3.30 TALK prepared by the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section of the University of Otago, "Sales and the Housewife" 3.45 Light musical programme 4. 0 Daventry news, followed by — special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session, conducted by "Cinderella" and " Tim," with the special feature, "Mystery Island" 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "The Yeomen of the Guard’ (Sullivan); "Love's Last Word is Spcken, Cherie’ (Bixio); "In a Persian Market’ (Ketelbey); "Nice Spanish Girl" (Pascual-Biafore); "Doina Voda’ (de Maurizi); ‘Weber's Immortal Melodies" (arr. Hohne); ‘‘Nicolete’ (Van Phillips); "Granada Arabe"’ (Gomez); "Memories of Horatio Nicholls" (Nicholls); "A Night on the Waves’ (Koskimaa); "Rese Marie’ (Friml); "Like to the Damask Rose’ (Elgar); ""Neapotitan Serenade’ (Winkler); "Cavatina" (Raff); "The Juggler’ (Groitzsch). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER'S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Serial feature: "Out of the Silence." A strange and intriguing story of a civilisation undreamt of by mankind A thrilling tale of mystery and danger encountered by Alan Dundas and his friend, Dr. Richard Barry, in their determination to probe to the depths the secrets of a lost civilisation, millions of years old. 8.30 "The Radio that Hitler Fears" (episode 12) This amazing radio presentation is the story of the secret " Liberty Station" in Germany, which Hitler cannot locate 8.45 "Ravenshoe": A dramatisation of the famous novel by Henry Kingsley 9. 0° Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices

9.33 9.39 9.45 The Studio Orchestra, conducted by Harold Baxter, "Four Dances from ‘Blue Base: OF oe. Giuctdhrana O’Neill Recordings: Beniamino Gigli (tenor), "If I could Forget Your Eyes" Albeniz "It is You" ..... Sandoval The Studio Orchestra, "Grenadiers" Waltz Waldteufel Recordings: Nelson Eddy (baritone), "Through the Years " Youmans "Dusty Road">......... Rene The Studio Orchestra, Suite: " Paris" . Haydn Wood MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY Close of normal programme. (During the war the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news: 11.30p.m.) iWaxXeeuee 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 8. 0 9.40 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music rae orchestral hour, featuring at 8.14, "In Holiday Mood" Suite, (Ketelbey), plaved by the London Palladium Orchestra "Seott of Scotland Yard’: "The Case of the Curious Document" Musical comedy and light opera Light recitals Close down

\Y/ WELLINGTON | 2 570 k.c. 526 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 Daventry. news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Daventry news 10. O Weather report for aviators 410.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28 t010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 Talk to women by "Margaret" 12. O Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 41.0 Weather report for aviators 2. 0 Classical hour 3.0 Sports results A.C.E. TALK, " Sales and the Housewife " Selected recordings 3.28t03.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers 4.0 Daventry News Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by Aunt Jean 5.45 DINNER SESSION: (Subject ‘to interruption for _ Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "Bright Stars Are Shining" (Leuzx); "Fresh Breezes" (Rorchert); "Prelude in C Sharp Minor’ (Rachmaninoff); ‘Flower Song’ (Bizet); "Billy ‘Mayerl Memories’; "One Naight of Love’’ (Schertzinger); "Goofus" (King-Cahn-Harold); "Southern Winds" ‘(Richartz); "Idylle’"’ — (MaraisBreiden); "Landscape" -(Foresythe-Frank-lin): "Spanish Dance’ (Don Rico); "‘Artist’'s Life’ (Strauss); "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere’ (Fearis); "Gipsy Love Waltz" (Lehar); "In Merry Mood" (Haringer). 6.55 Weather report 7..0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL: WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28 to 7:30 Time signals 7.40 TALK by E. Philpot Crowther: " Australian Commonwealth Stamp Issues" 8. 0. CONCERT PROGRAMME From the. Exhibition Studio: Recording: The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Leader: Frederick Grinke. Conductor: Boyd Neel "Suite for String Orchestra" First Movement, Prelude Frank Bridge Now in his middle thirties, Boyd Neel was ‘sent in his youth by his adoring parents -to Dartmouth,, where he _ distinguished. himself by winning the heavyweight boxing, championship. Instead of joining the Navy, however, he went to Cambridge, where .he ,was tried out for the University boat end took his medical degree, After that he served for two years as house surgeon at St. George’s Hospital. All the time,-music was pounding in his brain, and-.in his spare time he studied it with a passion which could not ‘he denied. He held the surgeon’s knife in his hand, but in his imagination he .saw a baton. When he formed an amateur orchestra, it-meant good-bye to medicine,

8. 9 Lieder recital by Ray Trewern (tenor), "Morgen" (To-morrow) Strauss "Es Binkt Der Tau" (How Shines the Dew) . Rubinstein "Ich Liebe Dich" (1 Love THESE isc Maen Beethoven "Traume " (Dream) Wagner 8.21 Recordings: Roth String Quartet, "Scherzo" (from Quartet in D Minor) ("Death and the Maiden") ........ Schubert From the time of its first Paris appearance in 1926, where it created a furore which demanded eighteen re-appearances in the same season, to the present time, the Roth String Quartet has been universally recognised as superlative in its field. The Quartet is composed of four Hungarian virtuosi, all from the same school. They possess quite extraordinary unity of mind, spirit and temperament. Their names are Feri Roth (founder), Jeno Antal, Ferenc Molnar and Janos Scholz. 8.25 Sophie Braslau (contralto), "Die Forelle " (The Trout) Schubert " Haideroslein" (Wild Rose) Schubert 8.29 Jocelyn Walker (pianiste), presents: "Valse Caprice No. 1: Moths" Tausig "Valse" (Op. 34) Moszkowski 8.44 Recordings: Dorothy Helmrich (soprano), " Racers," " The Lamb Child" d’Arba 8.47 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, ; Suite for String Orchestra Frank Bridge 8rd Movt.: Nocturne 4th Movt.: Finale 9.0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 "Coronets of England": The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots J 9.51 "The Circle of Shiva": The thrilling story of an Indian secret society 10.4 DANCE PROGRAMME 41. 4 Close of normal programme. (During the war the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news: 11.30) 2 Y 840 k.c. 357 m, 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0. After dinner music 8.0 With the Bands: A programme of band music by the world’s leading bands, spoken interludes by the popular comedians, Clapham and Dwyer 9. 0 Songs of Yesterday: A session of ballads which were popular in the early years of the century. Orchestral interludes provided by the , Lang-Worth Salon Orchestra, 10. 0 Merry and bright 10.30 Close down

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SV CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7.0 Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION §. 0 Daventry news 10. O Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional service 10.45 Selected recordings 11. O Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 9712. O Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 2. 0 Selected recordings 2.30 TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section, "Sales and the Housewife " Classical music Daventry news, followed by special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) | "La Finta Giardiniera’’ (Mozart); "The Knave of Diamonds" (Steele); "Strolling Along The Danube" (Joost); "Andantino" (Lemare); "Mardi Gras" (Grofe); "Spanish yr} ae | Dance’. -(Marquina); ‘‘Escapada’ "‘Melody Masters No. 3’ (Friml); "Vibraphone Waltz’ (Lohr); "Round a Gipsy Fire’ (trad.); "‘Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven" (Kreisler); ‘Bolero ’’(Ravel); "Summer Days" (Coates); "When AU Is Green And Blossoming’; "Spring Song" (Mendelssohn); "Nightingale in the Lilac Bush" (Krome). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS © 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.36 TALK by the Garden Expert: "Planting Spring Bulbs" 8. 0 Recordings: ‘ Le Garde Republicaine Band, "Father of Victory" March Ganne P @ °° " Fidelio" Overture 5; Beethoven 8.12 Nelson Eddy (baritone), "By the Waters of Minneeee eee eee Lieurance CP PONES win 6acee t Rasbach 8.18 BBC Wireless Military Band, " Golliwog’s Cake Walk " Debussy "Dance of the Tumblers" Rimsky-Korsakov 8.25 "Eb and Zeb" 8.34 Band of H.M. Royal Air Force, "A Country Girl Selection " Monckton 8.42 John McHugh (tenor), "Macushla" . Macmurrough : "Rose of Tralee" .... Glover $48 Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, " Eton Memories " (arr. Goodhart) "Radio" Quick March Pecking

10. 0 11. 0 Daventry news Weather report and station notices Gladys Vincent (violin), and Ernest Jenner (pianoforte), "Sonata in A Major, Op. 13" Faure Recording: Madeleine Grey (soprano), "Trois Chants Hebraiques " Ravel Kuddish Mejerke L’enigme eternelle MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY Close of normal programme. (During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news: 11.30 p.m.) SVL one mone 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings 7. 0 8. 0 9. 0 9. 7 9.30 9.44 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music BBC recorded programme: "The Mist of Years," a Scottish fantasy produced by the BBC The Masked Masqueraders present half-an-hour of melody and humour "Coronation Day" sketch Noel Coward Medley The Crimson Trail Variety Three recitalists: Presenting Laur! Kennedy (’cellist), Kirsten Plagstad (soprano), Baatrice Tange (pianiste) Close down

CaNY 4 DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Daventry news 10. O Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 Talk to women by " Margaret" 12. O Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1. 0 Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2.0 Selected recordings 2.30 Centennial celebrations Addresses by Official Speakers and comments on the Early Settlers’ Reunion at Logan Park 4. 0 Daventry news, followed by special weather report for farmers 4.30 Selected recordings 4435 Sports results 5. O Children’s session: Nature Night 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "The Leek’ (Middleton); "Andalousian Dance" (Winkler); "‘Gazellens" (Kuster); "Tritsch-Tratsch" (Strauss); "Life in Hungary" (trad.); "A Garland of Roses’; "Rosamunde"’ (Schubert); ‘Hungarian Romance’ (Winkler); "El Relicario’’ (Padilla); ‘"‘Charm of the Valse’ (arr. Winter);

"Deep in a Dream" (Van Heusen); "Dreaming of the Hungarian Steppes" (Bruhne); "Leda Valse" (Tanesca). 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. ) 8.0 National Centennial Exhibltion of N.Z. Art. Official opening by the Hon. F. Jones, Postmaster-General 8.25 Masterpieces of music with thematic illustrations and comments by Prof. V. E. Galway, Mus.D. " Oxford" Symphony Haydn 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 "Memories of the Savoy" Songs by Gilbert and Sullivan 10. 0 DANCE MUSIC 11. O Close of normal programme. (During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news: 11.30 p.m.) NV / DUNEDIN él 1140 k.c. 263 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7.0 After dinner music 8. 0 Hits of the day 8.15 Recorded play: "Eastern Tenacity*® 8.42 Musical moments 10. 0 Melody and humour 10.30 Close down 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.

February 19

at Y 680k.c. 441m. 7.Q0a.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 8. 0-98.15 (approx.) Daventry news 91. O Recordings 412. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 912.30 Daventry news 56.0 Tea dance 6.30 Children’s session 6.45 Light music 6.0 "Eb and Zeb" 6.15 Daventry news 6.45 "The Moonstone" 7. O Re-broadcast of official news 7.10 (approx.) After dinner music 7.30 Station announcements 8. O Book talk, arranged by the City Librarian, H. B. Farnall 8.15 "Trio in C Major, Op. 87" (Brahms), played by Myra Hess (piano), Yelly D’Aranyi (violin), Gaspar Cassado (cello) 8.45 Mr. Chalmers, K.C.: "The Living~ stone Case"’ 8. O Daventry news 9.30 Supper dance 70. 0 Close down San MT 7. 7.10 Breakfast session 9. O Daventry news 9.10 Morning programme 40. 0 Weather report 410.10-10.30 Devotional service 12. 0-2.0p.m. Luncheon music 412.30 Daventry news Talk by Josephine Clare: ‘Pioneering Days" 3.80 Classical music 4.0 Daventry news 4.16 Dance music 4.30 Weather report Variety Qa.m. Daventry news 6. O Children’s session: "The Story of Black Beauty" 6.30 Hit parade 6.45 Dinner music 6.15 Daventry news 6.40 After dinner revue 6.57 Station notices and weather report 7. 0 News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.20 The American Legion Band of Hollywood QO Silas Marner 7.44 Classical programme: The Madrid Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fernandez Arbos, playing "The Three Cornered Hat" (de Falla) 8.0 Conchita Supervia (mezzosoprano), in "Sentir Gitano," Cancion Andaluza (Moro), "Un Barberillo Allegre * Cancion (Media and Prado) 8. 7 The Queen’s Hall Orchestra. conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood, gs al "Spanish Dances, No. 1 in , No. 2 in E Major, No. 3 in D" (Granados) 8.24 The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s 8.36 The Vienna Boys’ Choir 8.60 Hot Spot, featuring the Quintet of the Hot Club of France 8. O Paventry news 9.20 "The Rich Uncle from Fiji" 9.32 De Groot and his Orchestra, and John MeCormack (tenor) 10. 0 Close down Qn on aN go m, 7. Oa.m. Daventry news 7.40 Breakfast session 9. 0-89.15 Daventry news 41. 0 Light music 12. Q-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 12.30 Daventry news 5. O Light music 6.30 Uncle Ed and Aunt Gwen 6.15 Daventry news 6.30 ‘Carson Robison and his Pioneers"

8.14 8.25 8.37 8.43 8.49 9. 0 9.20 10. 0 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay "Eb and Zeb" Re-broadcast of Government news (approx.) After dinner music Light entertainment: Alfredo Campoli and his Orchestra, "Princess Charming" Selection Vera Lynn (light vocal), "Sail Along Silv’ry Moon," "Summer Sweetheart" George Boulanger and his Orchestra "His Last Plunge" The Blue Hungarian Band, "The Great Waltz’ Selection Rudy Vallee (vocal) Charlie Kunz (piano), ‘‘Kunz Revivals "’ Daventry news Clgssical programme, featuring at 9.428, Mischa Elman (violin), with orchestra, "Romance in G_ for Violin and Orchestra" (Beethoven) Close down AVN see nm, 7. Op.m. Light music 8. 0 9. 0 9.15 10. 0 Hour of classical musie: "Consecration of the House" (Beethoven), played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra: "Concerto in D Major" (Beethoven), played by Fritz Kreisler and London Philharmonic Orchestra "The Circle of Shiva" (25) Light popular music Close down CAD ak cena te 7. Op.m. Rhapsodies in Rhythm 7.35 7.45 8.15 8.28 9. 3 9.15 9.30 9.42 10. 0 Personal Column "Sing As We Go" "The Woman in. White" Aerotones "His Last Plunge" Black and white studies: A session of keyboard rhythm Theatre box memories Music of the Southern Seas Close down 2 AUCKLAND 1250 k.c. 240m. 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular 7. 0 7.20 7.45 0 3 3 OOM w ooo recordings Orchestral items os gaa eae Society’s home garden ta "The Story of Marie Antoinette" Music Levers’ Session: A alfhour with Schumann Concert hour Latest hits Close down