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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 48, 24 May 1940, Page 13

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V/ AUCKLAND l 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news. (News at 6 a.m., 7 a.m., 8.20 a.m., and 9.15 a.m.) 9.20 Selected recordings (approx.) : 11. © Roman Catholic relayed from St. Patrick’s Cathedral Organist: Miss Nell Ormond. Choirmaster: Professor MoorKaroly p.m. Selected recordings DINNER MUSIC Daventry news Selected recordings Thom Denijs (baritone) presents Schumann’s " Dichterliebe " ("The Poet’s LOVOG")} od ines Schumann Selected recordings Daventry news Children’s Song Service Dominion and district weather reports Congregational Service, re-. layed from Beresford Street Church, Preacher: Rey. A. C. Nelson. Organist: George E. Wilson 8.15 Selected recordings 8.30 CONCERT PROGRAMME | Sir Hamilton Harty conducting the London Philharmonic 1 ‘ . 1 1 MM QP o fons Orchestra, "Overture to a -Picaresque Comeay sess Arnold Bax This spirited Overture was first performed at a Halle. Orchestra concert in Manchester, under Sir Hamilton Harty, to ~ ‘whom it.is dedicated. On the composer’s own confession it has no programme, and . it. can be considered as merely illustrating the title; indeed, the first indication to the violins is to play a melody in a manner "gay and impudent," and the whole Over.ture moves in that gait. No other. word than picaresque could adequately describe it. * $340 Helge Roswaenge (tenor) with : "the State Opera Orchestra, "Les Huguenots ": Potpourri Weber 8.48 Fritz Kreisler (violin), ~ Midnight Bells ".Heuberger ~ + . (From "The Opera Ball ") 8.51 Grand Celebrity Ensemble, "From Opera and Operetta " -9. O Daventry news 9.10 Dominion and district weather reports, and station notices 916 MUSIC FROM THE THEATRE "ORPHEUS AND _ EURIDICE," by Gluck "The great-great-grandfather of all operas. This is the opera that was revived in 1894

for the late Dame Clara Butt. The action takes place in Greece, in the Nether Regions and the time is Antiquity. Euridice has been bitten by a serpent and is dead. Her husband, Orpheus, sadly weeps at the tomb. The God of Love takes pity on Orpheus and tells him that he may descend into Hades and seek the shade of Euridice in Pluto’s dark kingdom. But there is one condition, Orpheus, if he would bring his bride back to the upper regions again, must return to earth without looking at her face. Orpheus, with his lute, wins admission through the gates of Hades and in the Valley of the Blest he finds his Euridice. He prays her to follow him, but he never looks at her face. She follows him out of the valley and Orpheus still pends: her upwards, never turning his face. In a cave, almost in sight of the Land of the Living, she cries owt and weeps because Orpheus is so indifferent to her. At last he can resist it no more. He turns and gazes on the face of his beloved and she sinks lifeless to the ground. Orpheus is about to kill himself when the God of Love, who has watched the scene, appears and, touched by Orpheus’s suffering, he waves his hand and brings Euridice to life again. 10.30 Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.0 p.m.) IS7 AUCKLAND 880 k.c. 341m. 6. Op.m. Selected recordings 8.30 "Bands and ballads’: Brass band _ Music with vocal interludes 10.20 Close down :

2Nv WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526m. 6. Oa.m. Station on’ the air for Daventry news. (News at 6 a.m., 7 a.m., 8.20 a.m., and 9.15 a.m.) 9.30 Recordings (approx.) 410. O Weather. report for aviators 11. 0 Baptist Church Service, relayed from Vivian Street Church. Preacher: Rev. L. A. North. Organist: Chas. Collins. Choirmaster: L. Thurley 12.15 p.m. Selected recordings (approx.) 1. 0 Weather report for aviators 1.10 Daventry news DINNER MUSIC 2.0 "Music Since 1900": "The Wreckers," by Dame Ethel Smyth Performed for the first time in Leipzig on November 11, 1906 Presented by Dame Ethel Smyth, conducting the British Symphony Orchestra 2. 8 Selected recordings 2.50 Recorded TALK: " Pictures," by Lord Elton 3. 0 "The Paganini Centenary" (The Devil’s Fiddler) Dramatic sketches of the life of the greatest violinist the world has known, with a reconstruction of his London concert in which he introduced his great Coneerto in D National Broadcasting Service production 5. O Children’s Song Service, conducted by Uncle William, assisted by children from Kilbirnie Salvation Army Sunday School . 5.45 Daventry news 6. O Selected recordings 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Anglican Church Service, relayed from St. Thomas’, Wellington South. Preacher: Rey. C. V: Rooke; Organist and Choirmaster: W. Billingse | aaa

7.45 (approx.) 8. 0 8.36 8.47 9. 0 9.10 9.15 10.19 Selected recordings ‘» CONCERT. PROGRAMME Recording: Albert Sandler and his Orchese tra, "Sandler Minuets " Ray Trewern (tenor), pres sents: "Down Her Soft Cheek a Pearly Tear" ....» Donizetti "Let Her Believe" . Puccini "Heavenly Aida" .... Verdi Chopin recital by Shirley Craig (pianist), "Nocturne in G Major, Op. 37," "Variations Sur Une Air Nationale Allemande," "Berceuse, Op. 57," "Waltz in A Pia, One 08. otaas Chopin Recital of Bird Songs by Olga Burton (soprano), "Charming Bird" .... David (Flute Obbligato by W. Boffa) "Still the Lark Finds Repose" Linley-Ivimey SPhée Wren: $340.3 Benedict (Flute Obbligato by W. Boffa) Recordings: Leslie Rekivwiaie Quintet (instrumental), "Songs Without Words, Op. 62, No. 6" ("Spring Song"); "Songs Without Words, Op. 102, No. 3" .... Mendelssohn "Down in the Forest" Ronald "Pierrette" oi..0 ox Chaminade "Prunella": .s.+« Bridgewater Daventry news Dominion and district weather reports and station notices "VENICE PRESERVED" : By Thomas Otway Adapted and produced by the National Broadcasting Service Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11 p.m.) QVC WELNETO 6. 0-8.0 p.m. Selected recordings 9. 0 10. 0 BBC recorded programme: "Scrap Book. for 1900." Presented by Leslie Baily and Charles Brewer Light orchestral and ballad programme Close down

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SV CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for 9.20 Daventry news (News at 6 a.m., 7 a.m., 8.20 a.m., and 9.15 a.m.)’ Selected recordings (approx.) 11. 0 Anglican Service, relayed from St. Matthew’s Church. Preacher: Rey. W. E. D. Davies. Organist and Choir‘master: Vernon Hill 12.15 p.m. Selected recordings 1. 0 2. 0 3. 0 mms 8.45 8.50 DINNER MUSIC: "Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 1.10 p.m.) Selected recordings Grand Symphony Orchestra of Paris, "Suite Algerienne" Saint-Saens Selected recordings Children’s service, conducted by Rev. L. Farquhar Gunn, and assisted by Nita Pilkington and Quartet from Knox Church Subjects: (Jnr.) "Happy Home Life" (Sen.) "Temperance" Daventry news Selected recordings Presbyterian Service, relayed from Knox Church. Preacher: Rev. T. W. Armour. Organist: Miss V. Butler. Choirmaster: A. G. Thompson Selected recordings Recordings: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter, "Leonora" Overture, No. 3 Beethoven Tudor Davies (tenor), "Adelaide" ...... Beethoven London Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Music — "Les Petits

Bienes osetewe MmOzart Overture Gavotte Pantomime Gavotte 9. 0 Daventry news 9.10 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9.15 Bessie Pollard (pianoforte recital), "Toccata"-"The Two Worlds" Rowley "The Darkened Valley" John Ireland "Prelude: ‘in D"'-.... Delius "A Toccata of Galuppi’s" Bantock 9.28 Ailsa Nicol (soprano), "The Flooded Stream" Armstrong-Gibbs "The Lost One" Granville-Bantock "On Newlyn Hill" Alec Rowley "hurll? c4ivb T. F. Dunhill 9.39 Fritz Kreisler (violin), * "Fotus Land" .. Cyril Scott 9.44 Dora Labbette, Harold Williams, Hubert Eisdell, Denis Noble, Robert Euston and the Halle Chorus, "The Apostles"-By the WayMIS... 5i4.cbin se Oh a'e's « Elgar 9.52 London Symphony Orchestra, "Triumphal March" from ee et | rari Elgar 10. 0 Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight (Daventry news, 11 p.m.) 3 Y (L 1200 k.c. 250m. .Op.m. Light music Gems from " Boccaccio" "The Mystery Club": "The Silent Stranger " Songs with the songsters Four characteristic valses Richard Crooks (tenor) BBC recorded programme: " The Kentucky Minstrels " Close down POD BOE ne S80 2 ee

b Vf DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news. (News at 6 am., 7 a.m., 8.20 a.m., and 9.15 a.m.) 9.20 Selected recordings (approx. ) 10. QO Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 11. O Presbyterian Service relayed from Knox Church. Preacher: Rev. D. C, Herron, M.A., M.C. Organist: C. Roy Spackman

12.15 p.m. Selected recordings 41. 0 Weather report for aviators 1.10 Daventry news DINNER MUSIC 2. 0 Selected recordings 2.30 "Carnaval" Ballet Suite Schumann Played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra 2.55 Selected recordings 5. 0 Big Brother Bill’s Song Service 5.45 Daventry news Selected recordings 7. @ Roman Catholic Service relayed from St. Joseph’s Cathedral. Organist: Miss Leslie Comer 8.15 Selected recordings | 8.30 The London Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham), "Tannhauser " Overture Wagner 8.42 Tiana Lemnitz (soprano), "Elizabeth’s Prayer " Waegn Tiana Lemnitz, the daughter of a bandmaster, was born at Metz. Her career has taken her through the opera houses of Aachen and Hanover to the Berlin State Opera where she has been for some years principal lyric soprano. Her Covent Garden debut was as Eva, in April, 1936, when she at once established herself as a popular favourite. In 1938, she added to her laurels and displayed unusual versatility by ap-

pearing with equal success in roles as diverse as Pamina, Elsa, Eva, Oktavian, and -Sieglinde. 8.46 Heinrich Schlusnus_ (baritone), "OQ Heaven Let Me Now gee ae ere Wagner "As You in Brave Song" Wagner The BBC Choir with Orchestra, "Pilgrim’s Chorus" and "Grand March" ... Wagner Daventry news Dominion and district weather weports and station notices

9.15 9.31 9.37 9.40 9.48 10. 0 The BBC Symphony Orchestra, " Fidelio" Overture Beethoven Lotte Lehmann (soprano), "Leonora’s Recitative" and ~ ey ear Beethoven Franz Volker (tenor), " Floristan’s Air". Beethoven The State Opera Chorus, "Hail to the Day " Beethoven Elisabeth OHnus (soprano), "Thou Monstrous Fiend " Beethoven Egon Petri and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Leslie Heward); "Fantasia on Beethoven’s ‘Ruins of Athens’" .. Liszt Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will remain on the air until midnight. (Daventry news, 11 p.m.) GVO RONeoN 6. Op.m. Selected recordings 8.30 9. 0 9.30 10. 0 Wandering with the West Wind A BBC recorded programme: "The Kentucky Minstrels" In order of appearance, featuring International Novelty Orchestra, Helene Esserman (soprano), Reginald Foort (organ), Stuart Robert« son (baritone) Close down

Religious Services On The Air T¥A : 2YA: = 4YA: 2YH: 4YZ: This Sunday Roman Catholic Service from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. 11 a.m. Congregational Service from Beresford Street Church. Rev. A. C. Nelson. 7 p.m. Baptist Service from Vivian Street Church. Rev. L. A. North. 11 a.m. Anglican Service from St. Thomas’, Wellington South. Rev. C. V. Rooke. 7 p.m. Anglican Service from St. Matthew’s Church. Rev. W. E. D. Davies. 11 a.m. Presbyterian Service from Knox Church. Rey. T. W. Armour. 7 p.m. Presbyterian Service from Knox Church. Rev. D. C. Herron. 11 a.m. Roman Catholic Service from St. Joseph’s Cathedral. 7 p.m. Meeting from Gospel Hall, Napier. Mr. H. Isaac. 7 p.m. Service from Church of Christ. Rev. A. W. Grundy. 6.30 p.m.

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ANE Wore Mim. 41. Oa.m. Sunday morning programme 4. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 1.10 2.30 8. 0 3.16 Daventry news. Dinner music The Salon Orchestra, with vocal interludes Highlights from musical comedy The Philadelphia Orchestra, "Passacaglia in C Minor" (Bach) Famous artists: Ignaz Friedman (piano) 3.30-4.0 Medley. time 7.45 8.15 8.28 9. 0 9.10 9.30 9.45 10. 0 Daventry news In the Firelight Relay of evening service from Church of Christ Preacher:. Rev. A. W. Grundy. Organist: J. W. Wood Gleanings from far and wide "Night Nurse" Listen to the band Daventry news Grand Symphony Orchestra, Paris, "Suite Algérienne" (Saint-Saens) "Oliver Twist" (final episode) Slumber session Close down Sz GREYMOUTH 940k.c. 319m. 12. 0-1.30 p.m. Variety programme 1.10 Daventry news 5.30 Sacred song service, conducted by the Salvation Army

5.45 6.5 6.25 6.45 7. 0 7.9 7.13 7.17 7.23 7.30 8. 0 Daventry news The melody lingers on Hits of yesterday and to-morrow Carson Robison and his Pioneers Grand Opera Orchestra, playing "Faust" Ballet music (Gounod) Lawrence Tibbett (baritone), and Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra Mark Hambourg (pianoforte) Helene Regelly (soprano) Leopold Stokowsky and the Philadelphia Orchestra, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" (Liszt) The Radio Stage Albert Sandler and his Orchestra, Jeannette MacDonald (soprano), Alfredo Campoli and his Orchestra Music at Your Fireside, featuring Donald Novis (tenor) Colombo and his Tzigane Orchestra Allan Jones (tenor) Charlie Kunz (piano) Daventry news The Rotorua Maori Cholr "Khyber": "K.21 Revealed" Stars of the Air Close down

2QVirl 760 k.c. 395m. 41. Oa.m.-1.30 p.m. Selected recordings 4.10 Daventry news 2. 0-4.0 Afternoon concert session 5.45 Daventry news 6. O Selected recordings 7.0 Relay of evening meeting from Gospel Hall, Napier. Preacher: Mr. H. Isaac. Organist: Miss Garratt. Choirmaster: Mr. Hughes B.15 (approx.) Selected recordings, station announcements 8.30 London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Symphony No. 1 in CG Major" (Bizet), 3rd and Ath Movements B.41 Guiseppe Lugo (tenor) 8.45 Yehudi Menuhin (violin) 8.54 E.I.A.R. Symphony Orchestra, "Khovantschina’ Interlude (Moussorgsky) 9.0 Daventry news 9.10 BBC recorded feature: "The Old Contemptibles’: A record of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons to Ypres between August and November, 1914 410. 7 (approx.) Close down

AVN sibte "327m, 7. Op.m. London Philharmonic Orches7.30 8. 0 8.30 8.48 9. 0 9.30 10. 0 tra, "Consecration of the House" Overture (Beethoven) Georges Thille(tenor), with Orchestra and organ, "Agnus Dei" (Bizet), "Noel" (Adam) Light opera Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Carnaval Romain" Overture (Berlioz) "Every Walk of Life, the Merchant" Light classical music "Pinto Pete" Close down 2D ase ete

7. Op.m. Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights 7.35 "Those We Love" 8. 0 "I Hear America Singing" 8.30 Instrumental music 8.45 "Dad and Dave" 8.57 Theatre-organ melodies 9.10 "The Insulin Murders": A "Plccadilly" feature 9.45 English notes: Music by Britain’s best 10. 0 Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250k.c. 240m, 10. erg Sacred and orchestral select 41. 0 Concert session | 42. 0 Luncheon music 2. Op.m. Selections from the shows and musical comedies 3. 0 Piano, piano accordion and organ selections 5. O Band music, announcements 5.40-6.0 Light orchestral items 0 Orchestral and instrumental programme 0 Scottish concert 0 A. J. Sinclair: "Tales of Cromarty" 30 Organ and choral works tt) , # 8. 9. 9. 10. Close down