EASTER PROGRAMMES
*[ HE most notable broadcast musical i event of Easter this year will be the Royal Wellington Choral Union’s per- -- of Messiah in the Wellington Town Hall at 8.0 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24. The soloists will be the British soprano Isobel Baillie, Mary Pratt (contralto), Thomas E. West (tenor) and Kenneth Macauley (bari(tone). The oratorio will be relayed in dts entirety by Station 2YA. On Good Friday, March 26, at 9.4 a.m., 2YA will present "A special recorded Holy Week programme, written and narrated by the Ven. Archdeacon E. A. Northash, of Sydney, entitled From,
Stonehenge to Calvary, and at 3.0 p.m. from St. Gerard’s Church, Wellington, 2YA will relay Stations of the Cross. At 7.30 p.m. 2YA will present a recording of Part I of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, by the Choir of St. Thomas’s Church, Leipzig, conducted by Ramin. On Easter Sunday at 2.45 p.m., listeners to 2YA will hear Jacques Hopkins, BBC Gospel Singer, in a studio recital. Other special Easter broadcasts will include the following:Station 1Y A: Good Friday, 10.0 a.m, combined church service from Pitt Street Methodist Church; 12.0 noon, Anglican
three ‘hours’ service from St. Mary’s Cathedral; 7.30 p.m., Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Station 2YH: Good Friday, 9.30 a.m., Passion Music from Handel’s Messiah. Station 3YA: Thursday, March 25, 8.0 p.m., The Night Winds Telling, a play for Eastertide by John Gundry, produced by the NZBS; Good Friday, 10.30 am., United Churches’ service from Trinity Congregational Church; 5.30 p.m., To-day’s the Day (Eastertide in Music and Story); 7.0 p.m., Bells at Eastertide, and at 7.30 p.m., Isobel Baillie in a sacred recital: Easter Sunday, 4.30 p.m., organ recital of Easter
music by Dr.
J. C.
Bradshaw
Station 4YA: Good Friday, 10.0 a.m., service relayed from St. Paul’s Cathedral; 7.0 p.m., combined Easter service relayed from Hanover Street Baptist Church. Station 3ZR: Good Friday, 7.0 p.m., Good Friday-the Story in Words and Music. Station 4YZ: Good Friday, 7.30 p.m., Stainer’s The Crucifixion; 9.30 p.m., From Stonehenge to Calvary. Station 2YN: Good Friday, 8.32 p.m., Bach Easter Music. The ZB stations will present special programmes of Easter music at the following times on Good Friday: 1ZB, 3.0 p.m.; 2ZB, 9.0 a.m.; 3ZB, 3.0 p.m.; 4ZB, 1.30 p.m.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 456, 19 March 1948, Page 31
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371EASTER PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 456, 19 March 1948, Page 31
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