WEDNESDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 26

WEDNESDAY

NATIONAL

| | y 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON . 7.30 (approx.) District . weather report, ollowed by breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0 "Music as You Like It" 40. O Devotional Service, conducted by Rev, Harold Sharp 40.15 ‘" Grave and Gay" 41. 9 Talk to women by " Margaret" 41.15 ‘* Musical Highlights " 12.0 Lunch music (1.45p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 "Music and Romance" 2.30 Classical music 3.30 Sports results "From Our Sample Box" 4. 0 Special weather report for farmers, and light music 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session (* Cinderella" and " Peter ’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Chocolate Soldier’ Selection (Straus); "Eternelle Ivresse" (Ganne); "Serenade," "Lovelight in Thine Eyes," "Monkey Tricks’ (Groitzch); "An Hour With You?" (Eisele); ‘""My Treasure" (Becucci); "By the Tamarish" (Coates); "Deltcatesse’’ (Deltour); "‘Russian Fantasy" (arr. Bor); "I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles" ({Kenbrovin); ‘Fairies in the Moon’ (Ewing); ‘‘Melody Masters: Franz Lehar’; "The Whistler and his Dog’ (Pryor); "Blanca Flor’’ (Mateo). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7.0 Local news service 7.15 BOOK REVIEW, by E. B. Ellerm 7.30 lLener String Quartet, Quartet in G Minor Debussy 8. 2 Studio recital by May Tombs (soprano), "Gentle Shepherd " Pergolesi "The Nightingale" . Kjerulf "The Maiden’s Lament" Schubert "Love Triumphant" . Brahms 8.14 Studio recital by the Westminster Trio, Suite for Two Violins and Piano .......... Moszkowski 8.32 Herbert Janssen (baritone), "The Harp Player" .. Wolf 8.40 Leon Goossens (oboe) and the International String Quartet, Quintet for Oboe and vee Member of a family of musicians, all of whom have won distinction in their respective spheres, Leon Goossens (perhaps the most famous of Britain’s oboe soloists) has done much to make the beauties of his chosen instrument more widely known. He has, in addition, induced many modern composers — notably. Gordon Jacob — to write music specially for it. Goossens is the solo oboe player in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.20 Evening Prayer, conducted by the Rev. W. A. Burley, M.A. Secretary to the Methodist Conference 9.25 "Martin’s Corner": The story of a family p

9.50 Henri Leoni and Quartet with Orchestra, "Henri Leoni Memories" Leoni 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 Close déwn NZ AUCKLAND 880k.c. 341 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 "Brass and Ballads," with "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at 8.30 9.0 Melody and merriment 9.30 "Joan of Arc" 9.43 Irving Berlin melodies, played by Paul Whiteman 10. O Light recitals 10.30 Close down [ZAM Baie 12. 0-1.30 p.m. Community sing, relayed from Majestic Theatre 5. O Light orchestral and popular selections 7. 0 Orchestral recordings 7.30 Talk under the auspices of the Government Youth Centre 7.45 "Silas Marner" 8.0 Peep into Filmland with "Billie" 9.0 Light orchestral items, Hawalian and popular melodies 410. 0-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 10.30 Close down AN WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. When Parliament is being broadcast, 4 programme will be transmitted y 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament: 2.30 to 5.30 and 7.30 to 10.30 p.m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) District weather report, followed by breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0 Morning variety 10. 0 Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.2810 10.30 Time signals 10.45 Talk to women by " Margaret" 41. 0 Music by Edward German 11.20 ‘Variety on the Air" 12. 0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 41.0 Weather report for aviators 2. 0 Classical music 3.0 ‘Ballad Singers" 3.2810 3.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 3.32 ‘ Musical Meanderings" 4.0 Sports results 5. O Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Famous Operettas Potpourri’ (arr. Robrecht); "Serenade" (Kreuder); "Herbert Jager Plays a Medley’’; "March of the Little Lead Soldiers’ (Pierne); "‘Pop Goes the Weasel" (arr. Cailliet); "Shy Serenade" (Scott); "‘Praeludtum’ (Jarnefeldt); "Sandler Minuets"’; "Two Guitars’ (trad.); "Romantique"’ (Lanner); "A _ Birthday Greeting’ (Kelelbey).

7.10 7.30 7.39 7.49 8.15 8.27 8.40 8.57 9.25 9.52 1 0. 6 11. 0 11.30 Dominion and district weather reports Local news service TALK by the Gardening Expert 7.28t07.30 Time signals Light Symphony Orchestra, "Bal Masque" ........ Fletcher "Mon Reve" .... Waldteufel Songs by Peter Dawson (bassbaritone), "Waiata Poi" ..... Hill "The Lost Chord" . . Sullivan "Waltzing Matilda" arr. Wood Lew White (organ), Waldo Mayo (violin), and Theodore Cella (harp): "Black Eyes" ....s..... trad. "Andantino" ......... Lemare "The Flatterer" . Chaminade "Angel’s Serenade" .. Braga Richard Crooks (tenor): "Garden of Happiness" Wood "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" Fearis "All Through the Night" Old Welsh Air "De Camptown Races" Foster The Symphony Orchestra, "London Again Suite" Coates Melodies by the Buccaneers Octet: "Viking Song" Coleridge-Taylor "By the Sea" ........ Schubert "Gipsy John" ..... Clay "Maiden Fair, Deign to Tell" .. Haydn "Give a. a Horse ‘He Can Ries Giz eee eee Presenting Fred Hartley and his Quintet. Vocalist: Webster Booth "The Fairies Gavotte" . Kohn "A Brown Bird Singing" Haydn Wood "A Little Love, a Little Kiss" Silesu "The Second Serenade" Heykens "A Fantasy in Blue" Dominion and district weather reports and station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news Evening Prayer: Rev. W. A. Burley, M.A., Secretary to the Methodist Conference "The First Great Churchill’: The romantic story of Winston Churchill’s famous ancestor, John, first Duke of Marlborough "The Woman in Black" Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians NEWS FROM LONDON, fol‘lowed by Meditation Music CLOSE DOWN

ay 840 k.c. 357m. Op.m. Tunes for the tea table . OQ Musical menu O After dinner music O Recitals by famous artists, featuring Miliza Korjus (soprano), Joseph Szigeti (violin), Arthur Rubinstein (piano) 8.40 Orchestral masterpieces, featuring at 8.55, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, playing "Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27" (Rachmaninoff) 10. 0-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 10.30 Close down QD Soke seam. TH 7. Op.m. Cocktails 7.35 Here’s a Queer Thing 7.46 Musical digest 8.15 "The Hunchback of Ben Ali" 8.28 Solo Artists’ Spotlight 8.45 Stars of the musical firmament 9.0 "The Life of Cleopatra" 9.30 Night Club 10. 0 Close down NAB NEW PLYMOUTH 810k.c. 370m. 6.30 p.m. Children’s session 7.30 Lecturette and information service 8. 0 Concert programme 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9. 2 Concert programme 10. 0 Close down 2 NAPIER 750 k.c. 395 m. 7. Oa. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session (8.45, NEWS FROM LONDON) 41. 0 Light music 412. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. 0 Light music 5.30 For the children 5.45 Light music 6.0 "The Japanese Houseboy " 6.15 NEWS FROM»LONDON 6.45 Weather forecast. Hawke’s Bag Stock Market reports 7. 0 After-dinner music 7.30 ‘Soldier of Fortune" 8. 0 Light entertainment 8.30 ‘Night Club,’ presenting Glenn Miller and his orchestra 9.0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.20 Evening Prayer, conducted by Rev. W. A. Burley, M.A., secretary to Methodist Conference 9.26 Jussi Bjorling (tenor) 9.29 Artur Schnabel (piano), with the London Symphony’ Orchestra, "Concerto in C Major" (Mozart) 10. 0 Close down QV iN es be 7. Op.m. "Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn" 7.26 Light music 8. 0 Light classical selections Variety and vaudeville = ‘Band music "Eb and Zeb" 10. 0 Close down These programmes are correct as we to press. Any last-minute alterations be announced over the air. All programmes in this issue are yrigh’ to The Listener, and may not be pos without permission.

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5) Y 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9.0 ‘*Morning Melodies " 10. O Classical programme 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 "Hall of Fame" 11. 0 Talk td women by " Margaret " 11.10 Women’s session, conducted by Mrs. L. E. Rowlatt 11.40 ‘Popular Hits of the Day" 12.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.30 EDUCATIONAL SESSION: Miss Jean Hay: "Rhythmic Movement" 1.55 Miss J. McLeod: ‘Speech Training’; ‘‘ Poet’s Roadway " 2.25 Mrs. J. A. Crawford: "Office and Shop" 40 Musical comedy O Classical programme O Frost and special weather forecast 5&5 ‘Rhythmic Revels " 4.30 Sports results " Favourites Old and New" 6. 0 Children’s session (‘‘Major’s Merrymakers on Parade ’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Procession of the Sirdar’ (IppolitovIvanov); "My. Blonde Dream" (Doelle); "In Old Budapest’ (Krish); "Charlie Kunz Medley of Strauss Waltzes’; "The Gay Fellow" (trad.); ‘Sweethearts’ (Smith); "Indian Summer’ (Lohr)! ‘‘Fabethaft!" (Schmidt); "Merry Nigger" (Squire); "Largo" (Handel); "Schon Rosmarin"’ (Kreisler); "Russian Slumber Song’ (Gretchaninoff); ‘" Almita"’ (Racho); ‘" Rumantan Folk Dance’ (trad.); "Blaze Away" (Holzmann); "Who Knows?’ (Lesso); ‘Sharaban’ (trad.). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7.0 Local news service Addington stock market report 7.30 Dol Dauber and his Salon Orchestra, "The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief" Overture .... Strauss 7.35 Winter Course Discussion: "Things As Seen by a Commercial Artist," by Mrs. Stephen Elsom and John Citizen 8. 0 Yovanovitch Bratza (violin), "Carmen-Fantasia" .. Bizet 8. 8 Readings by O. L. Simmance Serial by J. Jefferson Farjeon: "Facing Death": Tales told on a sinking raft. "The Stowaway’s Story" — 8.28 Organ recital by Dr. J. C. Bradshaw: | 1. Organ Concerto, "Cuckoo and Nightingale" ...... Handel It was the custom in the time of Handel to perform instrumental pieces, called Concertos, between the acts of the operas and oratorios. Handel wrote several sets for different solo instruments, of which the first set of six for the organ are the best known. The Concerto in F is known by the title "Cuckoo and Nightingale " from the bird-like passages in the Allegro. It is a@ fine example of programme music written in the great master’s most vigorous and brilliant style. 2. "Evening Song" Bairstow 3. "Imperial March," Op. 32 Elgar An inspired Sapeis of the march form by the eat English composer, Elgar. The martial and inspiriting strains of the opening section afe in direct contrast with

the quaintness which characterises the theme used for the trio or episode. In the concluding section the trio melody is ingeniously incorporated with the leading subject, and scored for the orchestra fortissimo, giving a fine climax to the work, (relayed from the Civic Theatre) 8.48 Norman Walker (baritone), " Sea King’s Song" Holbrooke "Noden’s Song" .. Holbrooke 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.20 Evening Prayer conducted by Rev. W. A. Burley, M.A., Secretary to the Methodist Conference 9.25 Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Festivo" (tempo di Bolero) Sibelius 9.32 Alexander Kipnis | (bass), "The Erl King" .. Schubert 9.36 "Symphony No. 29 in A Major" K201 .... Mozart 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by Meditation Music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200 kc. 250 m. 5. Op.m. Recordings 6. 0 Music for Everyman 7. 0 After-dinner music 8. 0 aig from the Diary of a film an 8.32 A bouquet of melody 8S. 0 Dance time 10.0-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 10.30 Close down SZ GREYMOUTH 940k.c. 319m. 6.50 a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. @ NEWS FROM LONDON 7.10 Breakfast session (8.45, NEWS FROM LONDON) 9. 0 Morning melodies 10. O Weather report 10.10-10.30 Devotional Service 12, 0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 3. 0 Afternoon programme 3.30 Classical programme 4. 0 Dance numbers 4.30 Weather report. Variety 5. 0 Children’s. session: Norma 5.30 "Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 6.44 Dinner music : 6. 0 "Here’s A Queer Thing" 6.156 NEWS FROM LONDON 6.45 Revue time 6.57 Weather report and station notices 7. 0 Evening programme 7.10 "Vanity Fair" 7.24 You can’t blame us 8. 0 Out of the bag (new hit tunes) 8.30 "The Moonstone" 8.43 "The Great Victor Herbert" 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.20 Evening Prayer, conducted by Rev. W. A. Burley, M.A., Secretary to the Methodist Conference 9.25 Radio rhythm review 10. 0 Close down

| 4 Y 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 Talk to women by "Margaret" 11. 0 Talk by Miss D. MoStay: "Cooking by Electricity" 11.15 ‘Musical Silhouettes" 11.38 "Tunes of the Times" 12. 0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 41.0 Weather report (including for aviators) 2.0 "Rambling in Rhythm," "Duos, Trios and Quartets,’ and "London Palladium" 3.15 A.C.E. TALK: "‘Nature’s Tonic: the Leafy Vegetable" 3.30 Sports results Classical music 4 Q Weather report and special frost forecast for farmers 4.45 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session (Big Brother Bill and the Travelman) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Kings of the Waltz" (Strauss); "‘Portrait of a Toy Soldier’ (Ewing); "In the Chapel in the Moonlight’ (Hill); "‘Intermezzo Pizzicato" (Birch); "Cara Mari’ (Zalden); ‘Faery Song’ (Boughton); "Musical Box Miniatures’’ (arr. Walter); "For Love Alone" (Thayer); "Jealousy" (Gade); "Four Corn Fields’’ (Campo); ‘"‘Le Canari" (Poliakin); "Crocus Time" (Riviere); "Love in a Bunch of Roses" (Ballard); ‘Fountain’ (Kuster); ‘Little Lantern" (Lincke); "Japanese Carnival" (Basque); ""Moment Musical’ (Schubert). 6.565 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.10 Burnside Stock Market Report 7.18 Book Talk 7.30 The Court Symphony Orchestra, "The Three Musketeers" Selection ............... Friml 7.40 "The Bold Bad Buccaneers" in humour and harmony 7.53 "The Hunchback of Ben Ali" Adapted from Maria Craik’s novel "Olive" 8. 6 Stokes Banjo Band: ""Mastertone" ...... Morris "Among the Flowers" CapPIGS. cG:ik 55s ake sh Re "Songs of Prairie" arr. Stokes 8.19 Tino Rossi (tenor), "La Belle Conga" .. Koger "Good-bye Hawaii" .. Apollon 8.25 "Round the Shows with Charlie Kunz" 8.31 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s" 8.43 "Live, Love and Laugh": A drama set to music, with Dobrinski’s Lyric Ensemble 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.20 Evening Prayer by the Rev. W. A. Burley, M.A., Secretary to the Methodist Conference 9.28 "Soldier of Fortune"

9.54 Alfredo Campoli & his Salon Orchestra, "Love in Idleness" .. Macbeth "Knave of Diamonds" Steele 10. 0 DANCE MUSIC: Abe Lyman and his Californians 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 Close down aAY ©) 1140 k.c. 263m. Op.m. Tunes for the tea table QO Melody and song O After dinner music » O Concerto programme, featuring at 8.20, Marguerite Long (piano), and Symphony Orchestra playing ‘‘Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" (Ravel) 9. OQ Vocal and instrumental recitals 10. O Merry and bright 10.30 Close down . Gt Y 680 k.c. 441 m. 7. Oa.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30-9.0 (approx. Breakfast session (8.45, NEWS FROM LONDON) 11. 0 Recordings 12. 0-2.0p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. Q Children’s session: "Round the World with Father Time" 5.15 Light opera and musical comedy 5.45 Tunes of the day 6. 0 ‘Personal Column". 6.15 NEWS FROM LONDON > sa "Birth of the British Nation" 7 O After dinner music 30 In Nature’s By-Paths: ‘Relics from a Distant Past," by Rev. C. J. Tocker These were hits "Out of the Silence’ Bagpipe recital by Murdoch Wate son, with annotations by John Watt: "Pipe Music from i918 On" Bl led Bo LG "Here’s a Queer Thing’ Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.20 Evening Prayer: The Rev. W. A, Burley, M.A., Secretary to Methodist Conference 9.25 Interlude 9.30 Radio Cabaret 0.0 Close down