SUNDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 18

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NZ, AUCKLAND 650 k ¢. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON. (News at 6, 7, and 8.45) With the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East. Sports talk by Captain J. S. King 9.15 (approx.) ‘Players and Singers" 411. 0 Baptist Service, relayed from Mt. Eden Baptist Church. Preacher: Rev. P. W. Norris. Organist: R. B. Wood 12.15 p.m. ‘ Musical Musings " 1. 0 20 3. 0 8.30 8.15 8.30 8.45 9. 0 9.15 9.25 9.28 10. 5 11.30 Dinner music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) "An Afternoon at the Proms" "New Zealand Brains Abroad": A review of our achievements, pregat oe by Bernard Magee and Major . H. Lampen Schumann’s ‘" Scenes from Childhood," played by Alfred Cortot (pianist) "In Less Serious Mood" Children’s Song Service "As the Day Declines" (6.15, -- FROM LONDON and Topical alk) Dominion and district weather reports Presbyterian Service, relayed from St. Andrew’s Church. Preacher: Rev. George Budd. Organist: A. W. Evans "Harmonic Interlude " EVENING PROGRAMME: Grand Symphony Orchestra, "A Children’s Overture " Quilter Dale Smith (baritone), Songs from " When We Were Very Young" .... A. A. Milne and Fraser Simson Reserved NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Dominion and district weather reports and station notices "Unimportant People." A play specially written for Christmas by W. Graeme Holder. Produced by the NBS Close of normal programme NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN Weg 6. Op.m. Recordings 8.45 9. 0 10. 0 Radio Concert Hall: Favourite singers and players Reserved Continuation of- programme Close down

12 AUCKLAND I250ke¢, 240m. 10. Oa.m. Sacred and orchestral selections 41. 0 Concert session 12. 0 Lunch music 2. Op.m. From the shows and musical comedies 3.0 Piano and piano-accordion selections, band music 5. O Organ selections, popular medleys 5.30-6.0 Announcements 5.40 Light orchestral numbers 7. O Orchestral interlude 8.0 Concert 8.46 Reserved 10. 0 Close down 2 v/A\ 570k ¢. 526m. 6 Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON. (News at 6, 7, and 8.45) 7.380 (approx.) Early morning session 9. 0 With the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East. Sports. talk by Captain J. S. King 9.16 Band music. Voices in harmony 10. O Weather report. for aviators 11. 0 Methodist Church Service, relayed from Wesley Church. Preacher: Rev. Percy Paris. Organist and choirmaster: H. Temple White 12.15 p.m. (approx.) These you have loved 41. 0 Weather report for aviators 1.10 Dinner music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 Music by Sibelius series: No. 1, "Symphony No. 4 in A Minor," played -by Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra 2.45 in Quires and Places where They Sing 3.0 "The Land We Defend": No. 1. "The North Country," by D. G. Bridson (A BBC production) 3.30 Songs by Richard Tauber 42 Musical comedy Reserved . Voices in harmony 4.30 Band music 5. 0 Children’s Song Service, conducted by Uncle William, assisted by children from the Salvation Army Home, Owen Street 5.45 Tunes you may remember 6.13 = FROM LONDON and Topical ‘a 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7.0 Roman Catholic Church Service, relayed from St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church. — and choirmaster: Henry Moun 8.0 EVENING (approx.) Band music: The Silver Stars Band, "The Bohemian Girl" Over-: ture Balfe 8.8 The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, "Finlandia " .........0.. Sibelius py = go

8.16 Foden’s Motor Works Band, "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Campbell ‘8.19 Harry Mortimer (cornetist), "Somewhere a Voice is Calling" Tate "Love’s Old Sweet Song" Molloy 8.25 Massed Bands, "May. Day Revels" .... Cope Champion March Medley Ord Hume 8.31 Heddle Nash (English tenor) in a studio recital with orchestra 8.45 Reserved. 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news. 9.15 BBC News Commentary. 9.25 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices. 9.28 A concert by the Studio Orchestra (conductor, Leon de Mauny) The Orchestra, "Hamlet" Overture .... Gade 9.35 Nancy Evans, "All Night Under the Moon" "The Scribe," "Nine of the Clock 0" | inscss see Gurney Because he was a poet himself as well as a composer, Ivor Gurney’s songs have that inevitable felicity, that inner cohesion, whose secret lies, as his fellow composer, Herbert Howells, has told us, in the pace variation of words and the discovery of its musical equivalent. It is this organic cohesion and this felicity, which he achieved in setting other men’s words as well as his own, that makes "fine songs for singing, rare songs to hear,’ songs moreover, Which the amateur can sing and play for himself. 9.43 The Orchestra, "Les Deux Pigeons" Suite Messager "Marche Militaire Francaise" Saint-Saens 10. O Close of normal programme (approx.) 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON fol- : lowed by meditation music 41.30 CLOSE DOWN QYVCMRLNETN 6. Op.m. Recordings 8. 0 Highlights of opera 8.45 Reserved 9. O. The stars and their courses 10. 0 Close down ; j

2 Y 990k¢. 303m. 7. Op.m. Billy Cotton and his Band 7.38 ‘‘Martin’s Corner" 8. 0 Songs for sale 8.30 Keyboard colleagues 8.45 Reserved "Dad and Dave" Memories of Hawaii "Mind Over Matter Ensemble 10. 0 Close down QV Moke som 7. Op.m. Relay of church service 8.15 Studio programme of recordings 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9 2 Recordings 10.0 Close down 2 NAPIER 750 kc. 395 m. 11. Oa.m.-1.30 p.m. Recordings 1.15 NEWS FROM LONDON 2. 0-4.0 Afternoon concert session 6.15 ee FROM LONDON and Topical a 7.0 Relay of Evening Meeting from Gospel Hall, Napier. Preacher: G, E. Dann. Organist: Mrs. F. Mercer, Choirmaster: L. Hughes. 8.16 (approx.) Recordings, station announcements 8.30 The Philharmonic Orchestra, "Oberon Overture’ (Weber) 8.39 Jussi Bjorling (tenor) 8.45 Reserved 8. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.156 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Rosa Ponselle (soprano), and Mar« ion Telva (contralto) 9.383 Philadelphia Orchestra, "Capriccio Italien’? (Tchaikovski) 9.50 The Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, "Boris Godounov" Opening Chorus (Moussorgsky) 9.64 The London Philharmonic Orch estra, "Baiser De La Fee" (Stravinsky) 10. 0 Close down 2 Y N 920k¢. 327m. 7. Op.m. London Symphony Orchestra, "Christmas Concerto" (Corelli) 7.30 Georges Thill (tenor) 8.0 Light opera 8.30 Egon Petri (piano), with London Philharmonic Orchestra, ‘‘ Fantasia on Beethoven’s ‘Ruins of Athens’ " (Liszt) .45 Reserved 0 5 8 9. "The Adventures of Marco Polo" 9.1 Light classical music 9.45 ‘Pinto Pete" 0.0 Close down

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SV, CHRISTCHURCH 720k ¢. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM 9.20 11. 0 LONDON. (News at 6, 7, and 8.45) With the New Zealand forces in the Middle East. Sports talk by Captain J. S. King Morning programme Church of Christ Service, relayed from Moorhouse Avenue Church. Preacher: Pastor C. Flood. Organist: Mrs. Pugh. Choirmaster: H. E. Ames

12.15 p.m. Recordings 1.0 2. 0 2.15 3. 0 3.26 3.38 4.30 5.45 6.15 7.0 8.15 8.30 8.45 9. 0 Dinner music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) "Famous Artists’: Walter Gieseking "For the Music Lover" "Nocturnes" (Debussy), played by the Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire Miliza Korjus (soprano) "From the English Countryside" Leslie Bridgewater’s Quintet and Raymond. Newell (baritone) Children’s Service, conducted by Rev. K. Schollar and assisted by the New Brighton Sunday School choir Subjects: (Jnr.) ‘*The Wise Men’s Gifts" (Sen.) ‘ Peace " Evening reverie ewe FROM LONDON and Topical al Anglican Service, relayed from St. John’s Church. Preacher: Rey. J. T. McWilliam. Organist and choirmaster: Claude H, Davies Recordings EVENING PROGRAMME: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, "In Spring" ........ Goldmark Peter Dawson (bass-baritone) " Outward Bound" . Stanford "Drake’s Drum" . Stanford Reserved NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news

9.15 9.25 BBC news commentary Dominion and district weather reports and station notices A studio recital by Maurice Clare (violinist) and Barbara McInnes (soprano) Barbara McInnes, "My Mother Bids Me Bind Say SEE isin cicerkings Haydn "Peace " caccecsrrseseree SChUbErt "Magdalene at Michael’s ee OES ES Lehmann "O Could I but Express in a EP OE Malashkin *A Poet’s Life" iz.x.. Elgar

9.41 10. 0 11. 0 11.30 Maurice Clare, " Sonata in D Major" Handel " Poeme " q...0000....00e Chausson (Noel Newson, accompanist) Close of normal programme NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200 kc. 250 m. 6. Op. 8.30 8.45 9.25 10. 0 m. Recordings Light concert Reserved " Piccadilly ": "Darkness" (final episode) Close down SAR Mati tre 12. 0-1 1.15 5.30 6.15 6.40 7. 0 7.8 7.16 30 p.m. Variety programme NEWS FROM LONDON Sacred Song Service conducted by the Salvation Army oe FROM LONDON and Topical a Hits of to-day and yesterday Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Vienna Blood" (Strauss) Richard Crooks (tenor) Eileen Joyce (piano), "Solitary Traveller," ‘Brooklet,’ ‘"Butterfly," "Melodie"

7.24 Edith Lorand and her Viennese Orchestra, "Brahms Waltzes" 7.30 The Radio Stage 8. 0 Golden voices of the stars 8.21 George Boulanger and his Orchestra 8.30 "The Kingsmen" 8.45 Reserved 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.16 BBC News Commentary 9.26 "Out of the Silence" 9.50 Meditation music 10. 0 Close down DUNEDIN 790 k c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS erty LONDON (News at 6, 7 and 8.45 90 With the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East: Sports talk by Captain J. S. king 9.15 (approx.) Melody Land; _ British Army Band 410. O© Weather report for aviators 10.10 Feminine artists; Orchestras and Chorus 11. 0 Salvation Army Service relayed from the Salvation Army Citadel Preacher: Major Sydney Bridge. Choirmaster: W. A. Baylis. Band Conductor: A, Millard 12.15 p.m. Concert celebrities 41. 0 Weather report for aviators 1.15 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON, folIowed by dinner music 2.0 Lavender and lace 2.30 "The Music of Beethoven: "Sonata in F Minor" — (‘‘Appassionata’’), played by Edwin Fischer 2.55 Classical programme 3.30 "The First Great Churchill" 3.55 Music of Many Lands 5. 0 Big Brother Bill’s Song Service 6.15 NEWS FROM LONDON 6.30 Congregational Service, relayed from oray Place Congregational Church. Preacher: Rev. John H, -- Organist: Mrs. Olive Campe 7.45 After church music 8.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, "Crown Imperial" March Walton 8.38 The BBC Wireless Singers, "Where the Bee Sucks" Arne "Come, Let Us Join the Roundelay" ............0.... Beale "It Was a Lover and His TARID dntienthscintaersisecigidess: CAS 8.45 Reserved, 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest o/ the day’s news. 9.15 BBC News Commentary. 9.25 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices. 9.28 Sir Hamilton Harty and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Royal Fireworks Music" Handel 9.44 Dorothy Helmrich (soprano), "Two Children of the King" "Clover" "The Long Quay" .... d’Arba 9.51 Leo Cherniavsky (violin), "Serenade Espagnole" Chaminade "Caprice Viennois" Kreisler

9.56 Arturo Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic Syme phony Orchestra, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Scherzo | Mendelssohn 10. 0 Close of normal programme 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation musie 11.30 CLOSE DOWN ay © 140kce. 263m. 6. Op.m. Recordings 6.20 (approx.) Topical talk 8.15 ‘Wandering with the West Wind" 8.45 Reserved 8. 0 Artists from the Empire 10. 0 Close down a Y 680kc 441m. 11. Oa.m. Sunday morning programme 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 1.15 NEWS FROM LONDON and dinner music 2.0 London Palladium Orchestra, with vocal interludes 2.30 Key-board kapers 2.45 Toy-town parade 3. 0-4.0 Happy recollections of the ing year’s screen entertainmen 6.156 NEWS FROM LONDON : 6.30 Relay of Evening Service from Esk Street Baptist Church: Preacher, Rev. E. N. Goring. Organist:- W. Dobie 7.45 Gleanings from far and wide 8.15 Weather reports and station noticeg 8.20 "Tales of the Silver Greyhound" 8.45 Reserved 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 ‘"Ravenshoe" 9.37 A tour around London’s Theatres lan 10. O Close down { These programmes are correct as we press. Any last-minute alterations be announced over the air. All programmes in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted without permission.