WEDNESDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 29

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NY, AUCKLAND 650 k c. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS » + FROM LONDON 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON ‘7.30 (approx.) © Breakfast session 3.45 "NEWS FROM LONDON 8.0 ‘Music as You Like It" 10. 0 Devotional Service: Rey. Leadley 10.20 "For My Lady": The entrancing am So of Fritz Kreisler, niaster violinst 70.45 "Why I Learnt to Fly," by Evelyn Gardiner 11. 0 "Musical Highlights" 12.0 Lunch music (12.15p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline news and views 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 B. 0 Children’s session (* Cinderella" and ‘‘ Pete ’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Slavonic Dance, No. 2 (Dvorak); "Cradle Song’ (Mozart); "Moonlight on the Danube" (Gay); ‘The Student Prince" Serenade (Romberg); ‘"Puszta" (trad.); "Melodious Intermezzo" (Kotscher); "Estrellita’"" (Ponce); "Serenade" (Toselli); "A Soldier’s Life is Grand" (Olivieri); "One Bright Hit After the Other" (Richartz); "The Old Gipsy" (trad.); "Life Begins With Love" (Tobias); "Marigold" (Mayerl); "Cloches de Corneville" Waltz (Planquette); "Sanctuary of the Heart" (Ketelbey); ‘""Hungarian Medley" (arr, Prout); "Last Rose of Summer" (Moore). . 7. 0 Local news service 7.16 Book review 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, "Concertino in F Minor" Pergolesi Although Pergolest lived only a brief beat (42.40-1736),. he. left. some . very music in the facile and melodic | tie of Eighteenth Century Italy. His opera ulffa, "La Serva Padrona" (** The Servant s Mistress’’),. always recognised for its nduring distinction, served as. a model.to subsequent Italian composers. Like many composers. he suffered from rebuffs and lack of appreciation. One friend told him shortly before his death that his music Was too beautiful to receive the approbation of the rabble. Dying of a tenacious and enervating malady, he completed the score of this work five days prior to. his. untimely. end. 7.44 Leon Goossens (oboe), J. Lener (violin), S. Roth (viola) and I. Hartman (’cello), Quartet in F Minor .... Mozart 8. 0 Studio Recital by May Tombs (soprano), " Ave Maria" ........ de Giorzio "Batti Batti" .......... Mozart "We Wandered" a "Parting" "Sweet Melodies" .... Brahms 8.12 Studio Recital by Henri Penn (pianist), and Winifred Carter (harpist), .8.37 Mark Raphael (baritone), "Give Praise to Him" "In Springtime" "Night’s Magic" ........... Wolf

8.49 Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Introduction and Allegro Elgar 8.57 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rev. Dr. Buxton, of the Roman Catholic Church 9.30 "Martin’s Corner: The Story of a Family" 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN IN7 AUCKLAND 880 k.c. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. O After dinner music 8.0 "Around the Bandstand," with "Vanity Fair" at 8.30 9, 0 Comic relief 9.30 "Joan of Arc" 9.43 Idle intermezzo 10. O Light recitals | 10.30 Close down 2m AggKtae 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular programme 6.35 Signal Preparation for the Air Force 7. 0 Orchestral music 7.46 "Silas Marner" 8. 0 Peep into Filmiand with " Billie" 8.30 Concert 9.30 Hawaiian’ and popular melodies 40, O Close down 2 y 570k c. 526m. In the event of Parliament being broadcast, this agen will be transmitted by 2YC. Usual hours of, Parliament, 2.30 to 5.30 and 7.30 to 10.30 p.m. 6. Oam. Station on the air for NEWS: FROM LONDON NEWS FROM LONDON Breakfast session EWS FROM LONDON Morning variety Devotional Service Popular melodies 10.28 to 10.30 Time signals For My Lady: " Oliver Twist" "A Woman’s Letters from England," by Monica Music by popular composers Variety on the air Luneh music (12.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) : Headline news and views EDUCATIONAL SESSION: * Let’s Listen," prepared by Dr, A. E. Fieldhouse and presented by Miss C. Moncrielf 1.45 "The Werld Unveiled," by D. G. Melvor 2. 0 Classical hour 3. 0 Ballad singers 3.28 103.30 Time signals 3.32 Musical meanderings 4. 0 Sports results 6. 0 Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "In Indra’s Land" Overture (Lincke); "Manhatlan Moonlight" (Alter); ‘Eva Waltz’ (Lehar); ‘‘Ye Merry Blacksmith" (Belton); ‘"‘Jugenliebe" Serenade (Alex); "Waltz from Vienna" (German); "Love's Joy" (Kreisler); "Roses of Picardy" Soaso =o a °° ona N== COmmN oa oon 8

(Wood); "Turkey tr the Straw" (Harthey 3 "Willow. Pattern" (Lowry); "In Memory. of Schubert" ; "‘Manhattan Serenade’’ (Alter). 7. 0 Official news. service ~ 7.45 "Britain Speaks" 7.28107.30 Time signals 7,30 Talk by Our Gardening Expert 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: "Immortal Strauss" A selection of his music played by the Viennese Waltz Orchestra 7.54 "Kitchener of Khartoum": The life and adventures of England’s great _ soldier statesman 8.19 "Let’s Sing It Again" Songs of the moment, songs of the past, songs with a story, songs of the people. Featuring Olga Burton (soprano) and Ken Macaulay (baritone) (A studio presentation) 8.41 "The Music Salon" A quiet fifteen minutes of! favourite melodies, played by Bernard Levitow’s Salon Orchestra 8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rev. Dr. Buxton, of the Roman Catholic Church 9.30 Celeste Instrumental Trio, "La Serenata " ......... Braga 9.33 Brian Lawrence, "The Mountains of Mourne" , Collinson 9.36 "Grey Face": A Jeffery Blackburn adventure, by Max Afford 10. 0 KAY KYSER AND HIS ORCHESTRA 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN 2 Y ~-84Qk¢c. 357m. 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. O Musical menu "6.35 * Signal: P¥eparation’for ‘the Air Force 7. 0 After dinner. muste 8. 0 Concerto ‘programme, féaturing at 9.24, Walter. Gieseking (piano) and "Symphony Orchestra. playing -Concerto No. 4 in A Major. Op. 58 (Beethoven) 9.30 Recital programme 10. 0 Highlights of humour ~™ 10.30 Close down OVD Mehta in 7. 0 p.m. Cocktails > 7.20 ‘‘McGluskey the Filibuster " 7.32 Keyboard colleagues 7.45 ‘Premiere’: The week’s new releases 8.15 "Adventure" 8.40 Solo artists’ spotlight 9.0 "The Mystery of Darrington Hall’ 9.20 Rhythm in Retrospect 9.45 When day is done 10. 0° Close down

ON Miloke some 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 0.0 Close down QV irl 750 ke. 395 m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDO® 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 1411, 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0p.m. Lunch music (43.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline news and views 5. 0 Light music For the Children Albert Sandler Trio The Oskar Joost Tango Orchestre "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s’’ 2D aby, FROM LONDON and Topica) a Hawke’s Bay Stock Market Reports After dinner music : "Those We Love" Frank Luther and Zora Layman (vocal) Organ and tenor selections. "Night Club": Presenting Ray Noble and his Orchestra NBS Newsreel: A’ digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Evening Prayer: Rev. Dr. Buxton; of the Roman Catholic Church Walter Gieseking (piano), " Préludes" (Debussy) 9.41 "Music from the Theatre’: Gaieta Parisienne Ballet (Offenbach) 10. 0 Close down ONAN 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. "The Life of Cleopatra" 7.25 Light music 8. O Light classical selections 8.30 Variety and Vaudeville 9. 0 Band programme 9.380 "Eb and Zeb" 10. O Close down o ToOsas PAINS OHHH Soh oo 2 9 2M s — a ao o 8 8 These programmes ate satel i We uP oa Any last-minute announced over the air. mes in this issue — All program: to The Listener, and may not permission. without

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¥ Y /a\ 720k ¢. 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 10.0 "For My Lady": Let’s gossip to music, Interesting news facts, with musical illustrations 10.30 Devotional service S@ngs from the films 11. 0 "Sidelines," by Mrs. Mary Scott 11.10 Lighi orchestral session 11.30 Popular tunes 12. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m, NEWS 5 FROM LONDON) Headline news and views 30 EDUCATIONAL SESSION QO Melody and rhythm .30 Musical comedy QO Classical hour QO Rhythmic revels 4.30 Sports results Favourites old and new Children’s session ("Good Comrades’’) Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Immortal Strauss’; "‘Sevillana’’ (Farraris); "‘Venetian Gondola Song’ (Mendelssohn); ‘‘Aubade Printaniere’" (Lacombe); "Yes Madam?’’; "Donkey’s Serenade" (Friml); ‘Salut d’Amour" (Elgar); "Land. of Smiles" (Lehar); ‘Veil Dance:’ (Goldmark) ; "A Little Dance’ (Borschel); ‘Montmartre March" (Wood); "The Alpmaid’s Dream" (Labitzky); ‘‘Three O’Clock in the Morning" (Jerriss); ‘Circus March" (Smetana), 7. Q Local news service 7.20 Addington stock market report 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Queen’s Hall Orchestra, "Solomon Overture" .... Handel 7.35 WINTER COURSE SERIES: "Changing Bases of Society": "Science and Social Organisation": A discussion by Dr. H. N. Parton, M.Sc., and C. G. F. Simkin, M.A. 8. 0 Concert by the Christchurch Male Voice Choir: (Conductor, Len Barnes) The Choir, "Sailors’ Chorus" ("Flying Dutchman") ...,............ Wagner "Turkish Drinking Song" Mendelssohn "Land of Beauty" Mendelssohn Betty Millichamp (soprano), "Hark, the Echoing Air" ("The Fairy Queen’) Purcell "Valse Song" ("Romeo and Juliet") ....cccrccssoess--eeee GOuNOd The Choir, "Soldier Rest" .... Somervell "Come Sirrah Jack Ho" Weelkes Trevor Hutton (flautist), Sonata in G Minor .... Handel The Choir, "Blow Away the Morning BPO « decdsceceuteskch arr. Robertson D. H. Law (tenor),. "Walter’s Prize Song" ("The Mastersinger") ......... Wagner The Choir, "Drink to Me Only" arr. Coleman "How Merrily We Live" East (Relayed from the Radiant Hall) 8.58 Station notices as

9. 0 oan ~ 9.30 10.15 11. 0 11.30 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Evening Prayer Evening Prayer: Rev. Dr. Buxton, of the Roman Catholic Church Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphony in D Minor Franck MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN

STV A CHRISTCHURCH 1200 kc. 250m. 5. Op.m. Recordings 6. 0 6.35 7. 0 8. 0 8.20 8.30 9. 0 10. 0 10.30 "Music for Everyman" Signal preparation for Air Force After dinner music Readings, rs Oo. L. Simmance: ""Merchant of Venice,’ by Shakespeare Light music ‘Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan" Dance time Melodia Close down SAR Gey arti 7. Qaim. NEWS. FROM LONDON 7.30 8.45 9. 0 Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON Morning music 10. 0-10.30 Devotional Service 12. 0 PATHE DW $o8o8a aw ogaoco Lunch music (12.15 ._p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) Headline news and views Educational session Afternoon programme Classical programme Dance tunes and popular songs Variety Children’s session Carson Robison and his Pioneers Dinner music ‘ "Fourth Form at St.

6.15 6.43 6.57 7. 0 7.10 7.24 8. 0 8.30 8.43 9. 0 9.15 9.25 9.30 10. 0 a fa FROM LONDON and Topical a Fifteen minutes of brightness Station notices Evening programme **Ravenshoe " Pick of the bunch Musical all-sorts " Mittens " Yer Can’t ’Elp Laughin’ NBS Newsreel: A djgest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Evening Prayer: Rev. Dr. Buxton, of the Roman Catholic Church Down Memory Lane Close down

ANY 4 DUNEDIN 790 k ¢, 380 m. 6..0a.m. Station on the air for NEWS 7, 0 FROM LONDON NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 10.15 10.40 11. 0 11.20 11,35 12. 0 1.15 1.30 2. 0 3.15 4.30 5. 0 5.45 NEWS FROM LONDON Devotional service "Choosing Partners," by Mrs. Mary Scott "For My Lady": "Ernest Maltravers"’ "Cooking by Electricity": Talk by Miss D. McStay Tunes of the times Luneh music (12.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) Headline news and views EDUCATIONAL SESSION Ramblings in rhythm: Duos, trios and quartets: At the London Palladium A.C.E, TALK: "Bottled Chicken" 3.30 Sports results Classical music Cafe music 4.45 Sports results Children’s session (Big Brother Bill and Travelman) Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM) LONDON followed by Topical Talk): "Merry Widow — Selection" (Lehar); "Mouse in the Clock" (Hunt); ‘‘Holladrio"

-2 (Schmidseder); "Oh My Dear Ones" (trad.); "Mon Cherie, Mon Ami’ (Stolz); "Carmen" Capers (Bizet); ‘‘Caprice--Vien-nois"’ (Kreisler); "Lovely. Vienna’; "Snow Fairies" (Lowry); "Why Should We Fall in Love?" (trad.); "Gipsy Romance" (Livschakoff); Lak’ .a. Rose’’. (Nevin); ‘In. the Marionettes Shop" (Rich); "The Music Comes’ (Strauss); "Die Folkunger" (Kretschmer); ‘Faust Frolics’" (Gounod). 7. 0 Local news service 7.18 "More Recollections of the Old Coast Road": Talk by A. P. Harper 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Geraldo and his Orchestra, "Top Hat Selection" . Berlin 7.40 "Evergreens of Jazz" 7.54 "The Hunchback of Ben Ali" ° 8. 7 Lukewela’s Royal Hawaiians" 8.12 The Mastersingers 8.22 Xavier Cugat Orchestra 8.30 "The Fourth Form at St, Percy’s " : 8.42 "Live, Love and Laugh": A drama set to music, with Dobrinski’s Lyric Ensemble 8.55 Alfredo Campoli and his Salon Orchestra 8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rev. Dr, Buxton, of the Roman Catholic Church 9.30 The London Novelty Orchestra 9.33 "The Life of Cleopatra" 9.57 Marcel Palotti (organ) 10. QO Mitchell Ayres and his Fashe ions in Music 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON fole lowed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN ; ANY 1W40ke. 263m. p.m. Tunes for the tea table Melody and song After dinner music Orchestral masterpieces At the opera Highlights of humour Close down 5 6 A 8, 9. 10. 10 So8c0c000 aw INVERCARGILL 680k. 441m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 411. 0 Recordings 42. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline news and views 1.30-2.0 Educational session 5. O Children’s’ session’ (‘‘Round the World with Father Time’’) , 5.15 Light opera and musical comedy 5.45 Tunes of the day 6. 0 "Buccaneers ‘of the Pirate Shig Vulture" 6.15 Baus FROM LONDON and Topical a 6.45 "The Circle of Shiva" 7. 0 After dinner music 7.30 These were hits 8.0 "Exploits of the Black Moth’’$ v "The Rout of Pugface"’ 8.26 Songs of yesteryear 8.45 ‘"Here’s a Queer Thing!" 8.57 Station notices O NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 156 BBC News Commentary 25 Evening Prayer: Rev. Dr. Buxton, of the Roman Catholic Church 30 Interlude 9.33 Swing session, compered by Frank Beadle 10. 0 Close down os