Around The Nationals

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 74, 22 November 1940, Page 28

Around The Nationals

HE beauty of California is expressed ' * not only by its wealth of sunshine, _ fruits, and flowers, its majestic snow- _ capped mountains and fertile valleys, and its Hollywood, but also by a rich store of early Spanish folk-songs. These melo- | dies come from before the time the _ United States took over the government in 1848. Some were brought from Spain by the early settlers, others drifted up from Mexico, and many came into being as the natural expression of the beauty of this flower-laden land. Many of these lovely melodies were collected by | Eleanor Hague, and a group of them will ‘ be sung by Thelma Horner on Monday, _ November 25, at 8.26 from 3YA. s * * * J. MILNE, the piper who takes a * Scots peek out of this page, is present holder of the New Zealand Championship for marches. He has won it twice. He was second in the last New Zealand Championship for slow airs. He holds the Southland Championship for marchts, the Strathspey, and the Reel, and the South Island Championship for : marches. a. ‘ Be. Fe * * DNA DEARLOVE, whose photograph is reproduced on this page, is a contralto singer and a pianist who has been very successful at competitions. During | the past season she won vocal chamPpionships and cups at Cambridge and Hamilton. At the Wellington Competitions she won, along with other prizes, the sacred solo class from 28 competitors. She’s more at home with classical, lieder and oratorio singing. * cod 2k ‘THE Photograph of Diana Craig used '" on this page was taken in London, } from where she has only recently re- { turned. The NBS has arranged for her i to give some talks in 2YA’s morning [ women’s session. Miss Craig was at Otago and Canterbury University Colleges and has spent two years in Britain studying drama. In between, she toured in England and Eire, and the first four talks she will do now she has returned will } be about her experience in Eire, "that very lovely country," as she describes it. The dates of her broadcasts will be anmounced in due course. ; bo * * : "[ HE REV. LIONEL B. FLETCHER, : who recently returned to Auckland from England, is well remembered in that city for his lively sermons and addresses. For some years he has held an important post in England, and he has returned full of admiration for the way the British people are sticking to their guns under the stress of aerial blitzkrieg. Station 1YA will be relaying a sermon which he will be delivering from his old pulpit at the Beresford Street Congregational Church on Sunday, November : 24.