New Year Shows

New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 6

New Year Shows

ARIOUS ways of marking the passing of 1949 and the arrival of 1950 have been adopted by the NZBS stations, ahd most of them will offer listeners light, bright programmes during the evening of Saturday, December 31, and the very early hours of the following day. At 7.30 p.m. Station 1YD will be Looking Backwards at some of: the ‘year’s musical events in Auckland. Station 1YZ will put on a request session at 10.0 p.m., and at 10.30 p.m. Station 1XN will present Hit Parade Tunes of 1949, followed at midnight by Welcome 1950. Hamilton’s 1XH will broadcast a New Year’s Eve Party at 10.0 p.m. Station 2YZ will say Goodbye 1949 in a relay from the Marine Parade Sound Shell, Napier, at 11.30 p.m., and Le?’s Start the New Year Right will be the title of 2XG’s midnight session. Station 2YA will broadcast, at 7.30-p.m., This Was 1949, a review of some of the highlights from the year’s programmes. At 10.10 p.m. 2YA will broadcast a recording of a Christmas and New Year’s

Eve Party made at the Mowai Red Cross Home in Wellington. The concert will be conducted along the lines of a wartime camp concert, with the ex-ser-vicemen patients actively participating, and it should be of interest to all hospital patients and ex-servicemen listeners within range of 2YA. A high standard of presentation is assured by the presence of Henry Rudolph and his Harmony Serenaders, with Margaret Richmond (soprano), Joyce Izett (soprano), and Zita Outrim (violin), and the Wellington R.S.A. Choir, which makes a practice every year of entertaining at hospitals over the Christmas and New Year ‘period. There will be community singing, variety sketches by Anne Lane, Jack Dobson, and D. Boyd, and possibly bedside interviews with some of the patients. The programme will conclude with a message of goodwill from the Matron of+ the Home to all hospital patients who are listening in. The broadcast concert will last for approximately an hour. Coming to the South Island, 2XN Nelson will describe the New Year. celebrations from the Pést Office, peals of bells and the noises of revelling citizenry in Cathedral Square will be bfoadcast from 3YA at midnight, followed at 12.15 a.m. on New Year’s Day by a musical programme called Hello 1950, Timaru’s 3XC will welcome the New Year with Hogmanay (a studio presentation by Timaru performers) at 8.0 p.m., and at 11.45 p.m. the station will broadcast a sound picture of the celebrations at Caroline Bay, with an introduction by the mayor. Seasonal greetings will be offered from its studio at midnight by 3YZ Greymouth, and ‘a review of 1949 called The Passing Year, with flashbacks to important events in music and entertainment, will be broadcast by 4YA at 8.0 p.m. Station 4YA will also present a variety programme at 11.20 p.m. describing town and country at play, and called Welcome 1950. This will be interspersed with Scottish songs by Mary Pratt and items by the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band from the studio. Station 4YZ Invercargill will mark The Passing of the Old Year at 11.45 p.m. with the Caledonian Pipe Band playing in the studio.