WEDNESDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 91, 21 March 1941, Page 29

WEDNESDAY

NATIONAL

MARCH 26

} | y 650 k c. 462 m. 6. Oam. 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 ‘Music as you like it" 10. 0 7, Saleen Service, Rev. R. J. Lidel 10.20 "For My Lady": ‘Lovers’ lilts 4 sia the operas" 10.45 Sidelines, Bee Blunders," by Mrs. Mary Scott +3 QO "Musical highlights "’ O Lunch music (12.15 p.m. and 145, NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 ‘* Music and romance " 2.30 Classical music 3.30 Sports results "From our sample box" 4. 0 Light music 4.30 Sports results 6. 0 Children’s’ session (" Cinderella " and, * Peter ’’) 6.45. Dinner music (6.15, NEWS ‘FROM LONDON and Topical talk): "The Gipsy Baron’ Overture (Strauss) ; "Tales fram the Orient". (Strauss); ‘Night of Love Divine" (Dostal); "Minuet" (Handel); "Serenade" .(Heykens); ‘Vienna Blood" (Strauss); "Will You Remember?’ Romberg); "‘Red Poppies’’ Tango (Baiz), ‘A Sprig Has Blossomed Forth’’; ‘""Do You Like Dancing?" (Rosen); ‘Kamennot: Ostrow" (Rubinstein); "Valentina" (Ww right); "Japanese Lanterns’ (Lowry); Song of the Vagabonds" (Friml). 2 Local news service 7.15 Book review 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Philharmonic Orchestra, Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B Major ........s......... Bach 7.49 Charles Panzera (baritone), "Nocturne" ........ Foureaud "Chanson de la nuit Durable" 3 de Severac 7.57 Studio by Adolph Mann (piano), Prelude No. 17 | Sonata Op. 35 in B: Minor ....... pelaiescun Chopin This is a tone poem than a sonata fn the classical sense. It is a commentary on life on earth, even such a life as that of Chopin himself, a life of continued struggle against Fate, against ill-health and misfortune, but not without moments of rest and perfect happiness. Then comes. the sudden clang of the funeral march, a tale of untimely death, blighting the fairest | promise, then the weird finale, " Autumn wind whirling away the withered leaves that lightly touch the new-made grave." "Australian Rhapsody" (VauCLOSE) erases . Adolph Mann 8.26 Studio recital by Phyllis Read (mezzo soprano), in settings of five 16th Century poems, by John Ireland, "A Thanksgiving " " All in a Garden Green" _" An Aside". "+ "© & Report: Song " ‘ ‘. . "The Sweet Season "- B.38 Instrumental Quintet of Paris *; . Suite for Flute, Violin; Viola, ’Cello and Harp ........ D’Indy 8.57 Station notices 9. O NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 8.15 BBC news commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: Very Rev. A. K. Warren, Dean of Christchurch 9.30 "Martin’s Corner: The Story Seam ab oH cl. Bice eS 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 Close down

UW 2K fate 3st 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 "Bands and ballads," with "Vanity Fair" at 8.30 9. 0 In lighter vein 9.30 ‘Joan of Arc" 9.43 Intermezzo 10. GO Light recitals 10.30 Close down Z AUCKLAND 1250k¢. 240m. 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular session 7. O Orchestral and instrumental music 7.45 ‘Silas Marner" 8. 0 Peep into filmland with " Billie" 9. 0 Band music, Hawalian, and light popular -selections 10. 0-10.25 Signal preparation for the Air Force 10.30 Close down 2 iN 570k ¢. 526m. In the event of Parliament being broadcast, this programme will be transmitted by 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament: 2.30 to 530 and 7.30 | to 10.30 p.m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS| FROM LONDON 0 NEWS FROM LONDON Cqpprox,) Breakfast session EWS FROM LONDO ®. variety 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.28 t0 10.30 Time signals. 10.40 ,For My Lady: "Great Expectations" 11. 0 "The Woes of a Contralto," by Evelyn Gardiner 11.15 Music by popular composers 11.30 Variety on the air 12. O Lunch music (12.15 p.m. and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.30 EDUCATIONAL SESSION: * Bookland Adventures,’’ Mrs. P. M. Hattaway and D. G. Edwards 1.45 "The World Unveiled," F. J. Gair 2. 0 Classical hour 3.0 Ballad singers 3.28 10 3.30 Time signals 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): "Wood Nymphs" (Coates); the Lazy River Goes By" (McHugh); "‘Modern Melodies"; "Where the Lemons Bloom" (Strauss); _ "Die _Schonbrunner | Waltz" (Lanner); "The Violin Song’’ (Rubens); ‘Sandler Serenades"; * ‘Gershwin Medley’ "Because" (Gade); "Marche Mititaire caise" (Saint-Saens).

7. O Official news service 7.15 "Britain Speaks" 7:28 107.30 Time signals 7.30 Talk by Our Gardening Expert 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Debroy Somers Band, "1812 And All That" 7.54 "Kitchener of Khartoum": The life and adventures of England’s great_ soldierstatesman 8.19 "Let’s Sing it Again": Songs of the moment; songs of the past; songs with a story; songs of the people, featuring Merle Gamble (soprano), Dan Foley (Irish tenor) and chorus. (A Studio presentation) 8.43 The Music Salon Fifteen minutes of favourite melodies played by Bernard Levitow’s Salon Orchestra 8.58 Station notices | 8. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary 9.25. Evening. Prayer; Very Rev. A. K. Warren, Dean of Christchurch 9.30 The Victor Olof Sextet, | "The Darset Daisy" .... Bath 9.33 Maleolm McEachern (bass), — "Lucy Long" ....... Godfrey 9.36 "Surfeit of Lampreys": Ngaio Marsh’s new detective story, read by the author 10. 5 Review of to-morrow’s trots by S. V. McEwen 10.15 Mitchell Ayres and his Fashions in Music 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation musie 11.30 CLOSE DOWN OV WELLINGTON 84Qk.c. 357m. 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea table 6. 0 Musical menu 7 8 O After dinner music O Orchestral masterpieces, featuring at 8.32, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, playing Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 24 (Beethoven) 9.30 Highlights from the operas 10. 0-10.26 Signal preparation for the Air Force 10.30 Close down

QVD*seiineren 7. Op.m. Cocktails 7.20 Keyboard colleagues 7.33 "Billy, Bunter of Greyfriars" 7.45 "Premiere": The week’s new releases 8.15 "Adventure" . Solo artists’ spotlight 9.0 "The Mystery of Darrington Hall" 9.20 Rhythm in retrospect 9.456 When day is done! 0. 0 Close down NAB NEW PLYMOUTH S10kic. 370m. 6.30 p.m. Children’s session 7.30 Lecturette and Information service 8. 0 Concert programme 9. O Station notices: 9. 2 Concert programme 10. 0 Close down QVinl 750 kc. 395 m. Oam. NE\WS phe La LONDON 730 Breakiast se 8.45-9.0 NEWS LONDON 11. 0 Light music 42. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (12.15 and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. 0 Light music ow For the children "The Fourth Form at St. Percy's" 618 NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk 6.45 Hawke’s Bay stock market reports 7. O After dinner music 7.30 ‘Those We Love" 8. 0 "Marching to Victory": Dominion war songs. A BBC programme ~ 20 Organ selections 30 "Night Club’: Presenting Blue 0 Barron and his Orchestra NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.256 Evening Prayer: Very Rev. A. K. Warren, ‘Dean of Christchurch 9.30 ‘Music from the Theatre": "Carnaval" Ballet (Schumann) 0. 0 Close down 2 Y NE 920k¢. 327m. 7. Op.m. "The Life of Cleopatra" . 7.25 Light music 8. 0 Light classical selections 8.30 Variety and vaudeville 9. 0 Band programme 9.80 ‘"Eb and Zeb" 10. O Close’ down

WEDNESDAY

NATIONAL

MARCH 26

SAV/ CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416 m. 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 10.0 "For My Lady": The world’s great artists, Count John McCormack, Irish tenor 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Music from the movies 11.0 "On Tour in Southern Ireland," talk by Diana Craig 11.10 Light orchestral session 11.30 Popular tunes 12. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m. and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.30 EDUCATIONAL SESSION 2. 0 Melody and rhythm 2.30 Musical comedy 3.0 Classical hour 4. OQ Rhythmic revels 4.30 Sports results Favourites old and new &. 0 Children’s session (‘"‘Merrymakers’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Nights at the Ballet": ‘‘Reminiscences of Friml’; "Poem" (Fibich); ‘Remembrance"’ (Melfi); "To An Oriental God’ (Jalowicz); "‘Serenata’’ (Sanderson); ‘‘The Gondoliers" Selection (Sullivan); "By the Light of the Moon" (Pallas); ‘‘Alegrias’’ Gomez); "Simple Little Melody’’ (Straus); ‘Grinzing" (Benatzky); ‘‘Waltz Serenade" (Tichy) ; "Faust"? Variations (Gounod); ‘Melodie’ (Tchaikovski). 7. 0 Local news service (including report on Ashburton Ram Fair) 7.20 Addington Stock Market report 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Music by Mendelssohn State Opera Orchestra, "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" Overture 7.42 Joseph Szigeti (violin) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Concerto in E Minor 8.11 Reading by O. L. Simmance: "Don Quixote," by Cervantes 8.31 From the studio: Recital by Mrs. Wilfred Andrews (contralto) "TI Love Thee" ............ Grieg " Slumber Dear Maid":.Handel "Autumn Storms" ........ Grieg 8.44 Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, "Istar" Variations Symphoniques . D’Indy 58 Station notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of 15 the day’s news BBC News Commentary .25 Evening Prayer: Very Rev. A. K. Warren, Dean of Christchurch 9.30 Sir Edward Elgar and the London Symphony Orchestra, "Symphony No. 1 in A Flat ) EL geen aimereeemyereras TT , 10.20 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN F SWIL CHRISTCHURCH 1200 kc. 250m. 6. Op.m. Recordings 6.0 "Music for Everyman" 7. 0 After dinner music

8. 0 Fg from the Diary of a Film an" 8.30 Light music 9. 0 Let’s dance! 10. 0-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 10.30 Close down SAR Gat ue 7. Oa.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0 Morning music 10. 0-10.30 Devotional service 12. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m. and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.30 Educational session 3.0 Afternoon programme 3.30 Classical programme

Dance tunes and popular songs Variety Children’s session (Norma) Carson Robison and his Pioneers Dinner music "Fourth Form at St. Percy’s" NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk ‘ Fifteen minutes of brightness Station notices Evening programme "The Woman in Black" Hits and encores Musical all-sorts "Mittens" Music by Strauss NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Evening Prayer: Very Rev. A. K. Warren, Dean of Christchurch Personalities on parade Close down a\ y 790 k.c. 380 m. 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 10.15 Devotional Service wo" & ® b= Tea = ae ee, oo Rat SO OD OMMMINNDD gougaTaD =

10.40 11. 0 11.20 11.35 12. 0 1.30 2. 0 3.15 4.30 5. 0 5.45 "A Summer Tour: Still In the West of ireland," by Diana Craig "For My Lady": "Ernest Maltravers " "Cooking by Gas": Talk by Miss D. McStay Tunes of the times Lunch music (12.15 p.m, and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) Educational session Rambling in rhythm; Duos, trios and quartets; At the London Palladium A.C.E. TALK: "Variety is the Spice" 3.30 Sports results Classical music Cafe music 4.45 Sports results Children’s session (Big Brother Bill and the Travelman) Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Gavotte" (Thomas); "Little Star" (Ponce); "Moontime’"’ (Collins); ‘‘Monika’’

(Kotscher); "China Doll Parade’ (Zamecnik); "Tango Marina" (Schmidseder); "From Near and Far" (arr. Hohne); "Song Without Words" (Lohr); "Spring Song," "Tarantelle’ (Mendelssohn); "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" (arr. Pothon); "Les Sylphides"’ (Cussans); "Hungarian Quick | Czardas Dances"; "Gallantry" (Borchert); "Love Was Born ‘Like a Wonder" (Doelle); "Let's Make a Wish’ (Silvers); "Acclamations" (Waldteufel); (Gossec). 7. 0 Local news service 7.10 Burnside Stock Market report 7.16 "Hugh Stewart’: A tribute by Prof. Arnoid Wall 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Geraldo and his Romance in Rhythm Orchestra, "The Show Boat Selection" Kern 7.40 "Evergreens of Jazz" 7.54 "The Hunchback of Ben Ali" 8. 7 The Melodeers Male Quartet, "When Big Profundo Sings PE, OF ee HET . Bohanan "Funny Old Hills" . Rainger "Daisy Bell" ........... Dagre 8.15 Ted Steele’s Novatones, "Under a Blanket of Blue" Levinson "After You’ve Gone" Layton

8.22 8.30 8.42 8.55 8.58 9. 0 9.15 9.25 9.30 9.33 10. 0 11. 0 11.30 The Lang-Worth Gauchos, "Argentine Nights" . Sorey "Ttalian Mazurka" Biamonte "Racing Fingers" .... Munro "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s" "Live, Love and Laugh": 4 drama set to music with Doe brinski’s Lyric Ensemble P gd Roy’s Tiger Ragamufs ns, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" Abrahams Station notices NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Evening Prayer: Very Rev. A. K. Warren, Dean of Christchurch Albert Sandler Trio "Chanson " ........cc..-00008 Frim "The Life of Cleopatra" Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN GVO Mone an, 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea table 6. 0 7. 0 8. 0 9.10 10. 0 10.30 Melody and song After dinner music Orchestral masterpieces, featuring at 8.20, Queen’s Hall Orchestra, playing "A London Symphony" (Vaughan Williams) Recital programme Favourite entertainers Close down aly INVERCARGILL 680kc. 441m. 7. Oa. 7.30 m. NEWS FROM LONDON Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 11. 0 12. 0 5.15 5.45 6. 0 6.15 6.45 7. 0 7.30 7.45 8. 0 8.26 8.45 8.57 9. 0 9.15 9.25 9.30 9.33 10. 3 Recordings Lunch musie (12.15 p.m. and 1,18, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.30-2.0 Educational session . Children’s session (‘Round th@ World With Father Time’’) Light opera and musical comedy Tunes of the day "Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture" A ig FROM LONDON and Topical al "The Circle of Shiva" After dinner music Early Southland: "Oteramika," talk by Rosaline Redwood ¥ These were hits "Out of the Silence" (final eple sode) | Recital by Hawaiian Serenaders "Here’s a Queer Thing!’ Station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Evening Prayer: Very Rev. A, Warren, Dean of Christchureh Interlude Radio Cabaret Close down

These programmes are correct as we ta press. Any last-minute alterations will be announced over the air. All programmes in this issue are copyrigh’ to The Listener, and may not be 0 | without permission.