Friday, April 16

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 39

Friday, April 16

ly AUCKLAND 760 ke 395 m 94am. Morning Concert 10. 0 Combined Service for Good Friday: | St. James Presbyterian Church Preacher: Rev. R, J. Currie ) Organist: B. Robinson 11. O Australian Celebrity Artists ) 11.30 Orchestral Concert 12. 0 Good Friday Devotions: St. Mary’s Cathedral, conducted by the Rev. J. C. Gimness of the Resurrection, Mirfield. England 1.30 p.m. Liverpool Philharmonic OrchesA John Field Suite arr. Harty 2.0 Reverence for Life: A programme compiled from the writings of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (BBC) a 0 The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Symphony No. 5 in D, Op. 107 (Rerormation Mendelssonn 3.30 Elsie Suddaby (soprano), Kathleen | Ferrier (contralto), Erie Greene (tenor), | Bruce Boyce (baritone), and William | Parsons (bass), with the Bach Choir and the Jacques Orchestra conducted by Dr, Reginald Jacques Excerpts from the St. Matthew Passion Bach 4.30 London Philharmonic Orchestra Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 564 (St. Anthony Chorale) Brahms 4.48 Ania Dorftmann , (piano ) ; 5. 0 William Warfield (baritone) 5.15 Garde Kepublicaine Saxophone Quartet 5.39 Lisa Della Casa (soprano), Helge Kosvaenge (tenor), and the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich 6. 0 Evergreens of Melody 7. 0 Music of Ernesco Lecuona: Stanley Black’s Orchestra 7.30 Pitt Street Methodist Choir, condueted by Arthur Reid O Saviour of the World Palestrina All Glory, Laud and Honour arr. Bach The Crown of Roses Tchaikovski The Merchant’s Carol Shaw Ah Toly Jesu Cruger | Jesu, Lamb of God Mozart | All Praise to Him Nicolai | (NZBS) 8.0 Short Story: stowaway, by J. Edward Brown (NZBS) 15 Tom Jenkins and his Palm Court | Orchestra : 8.30 This is Ceylon: a portrait of the Island’s history and present day Hfe, by John Seymour (BBC) (to be repeated | from 41YC at 9.30 p.m. on Monday) 9.30 Song of Britain: Choirs from all) parts of the British Isles, tntroduced by | James McKechnie (BBC) : 10.30 Operatic Highlights for Orchestra 11.20 Close down TYO 20 QUCKLAND 6. Op.m. Dinner Music 7 @ The Mannes-Gimpel-Silva Trio Piano Trio No, 1 in D Minor, Op. 62 Schumann 7.30 Ballerina: Margot Fonteyn introduces her own ehoice of musie from the ballets: Carnaval, by Schumann, and Spectre of the Rose, by Weber 8.11 The BBC Choral Society and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with soloists’ Elsie Morison and Marjorie Avis (sopranos), Naney Thomas (contralto), Richard Lewis and John Dunean (tenors), William Parsons (baritone), Owen Brannigan and Norman Walker (basses) and Thurston Dart) (harpsichord), conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. The Evangelist is sung by Erie Greene (tenor) St. John Passion (Part 1) Bach (BBC) 9.49 St. John Passion (Part 2) Bacn (BBC) 341 m. 10.38 The Swiss Romande Orchestra canducted bv Ernest Ansermet Symphony No. 34 in C, K.338 Mozart 41. 0 Close down 1D jaeAUCKLAND, | 10. Oa.m. Morning Concert 441. 0 Voices in Harmony 11.1456 The Waltz Festival Orchestra 411.30 At the Keyboard 11.45 Richard Tauber Sings 42. 0 Lunch Music 12.30 p.m. Dominion Weather Forecast 1. 0 Musical Matinee 2. -9 Concert Hall Celebrities 2.30 Showease of Melody 4.30 The Luton Girls’ Choir 4.45 Reginald Foort Entertains 5. 0 Continental Releases 5.15 The Music of Johann Strauss 5.30 Teatime Tunes 6. 0 Songs by Bob Hannon : / 6.15 Victoria, Queen of England |

6.30 Light and Bright i Les Baxter and his Music 7.15 In Tune with Victor Silvester 7.30 Experiment with Time 8. 0 Listeners’ Classical Requests 10. QO District Weather Forecast Close down IXN 97 VLA NGAREI | 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9. 0 Dominion Weather Forecast 9. 3 Northland Tidal Report 9.15 Famous Violinists 9.30 American Tenors 10 Les Chanteurs de Lyon (mixed choir), with Organ and Orchestra Requiem Faure 10.30 Boston Promenade Orchestra 411. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. Concert Artists 6.30 Children’s Corner; Stevie to the Rescue 7. 0 Music for Easter Adoramus Te Christe Ave Verum Mozart. Passion Music (Mé@ssiah) Handel 7.30 Plantation Melodies 7.45 Allan Jones Sings 8. 0 The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra | Ballet Suite: The Sleeping Princess .- Tcohaikovski 8.20 Good Friday Readings and Hymns 8.40 Short Story: Viva Jean-Jaques, by Antonia Ridge (NZBS) 9. 4 Eastertide Eileen Ronald (soprano), Robert Johnson (tenor) and Keith Ronald (organ) Organ: Mortify Us By Thy Grace Tenor: Passiontide Organ: Chorale Prelude on Passion Chorale Tenor; Come kindly Death Soprano: The Third Day He Rose Again Jesus, Fount of Consolation | Organ: Toccata and Fugue in D Bach (From the Presbyterian Church) 9.30 \#6 are the Welsh: People of Wales talking about their own country, introduced by Wilfred Thomas (BBC) 40. 0 Time for Meditation 10.30 Close down IXH rs cLAMILTON, ,, 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 7.46 Weather Report 9.0 Music That Has Lived . 9.39 Around the World in Song 9.45 Showcase of Melody 10. O Personalities on Parade 10.25 Ballet Music; Gaite Parisienne Offenbach 11. 0 The Band of the Royal Military School of Music, conducted by Major Meredith Roberts. From the Royal Festival Hall, London A BBC) 12. 0 Lunch Musie 1. Op.m. Short Classics by Grieg 1.15 Oratorio Singers 4.30 Choral Preludes 1.45 John Charles Thomas (baritone) . ; Play: Everest, 1953 (BBC) A Masterwork The National Symphony Orchestra of England Overture: Russian Easter Festival Rimsky-Korsakov 3.20 Duets from Opera 3.30 ‘The Amazing Duchess 3.45 Ossie Renardy (violin) 4.0 MARIE POOLE (soprano) Folk Songs: The Old Minstrel (Old Basque Air) arr. Fletcher The Gipsy Dance (Spanish Air) arr. Lawson Bonny at Morn (Northumbrian) arr. MacMahen Mar-ria-roi-na (Italian) Turn Ye to Me ¢Seottish) Lawson (Studio) 4.30 Festival for Two 4.45 Cavaleade of Song 5. 0 Gershwin Melodies 5.390 For Our Younger Listeners: The Pied Piper. a cameo cartoon by Trevor a (BBC) 6. Dinner Musie 6.30 Music by Enelish Composers 6.45 On Wings of Song 7. 0 Organ Serenade 7.415 Voices in Waltz Time 7.30 Calling All Forces: Ted Ray and Petula Clark (BBC) 8. 0 The Melachrino Orchestra 8.39 A Case for Cleveland 9. 4 Poplar Classics 9.30 Play: The Creative Impulse, adapted by Oliver A. Gillesnte from a short story by Somerset Maugham (NZBS)

10. 0 ot St. O Lord God O Lord Increase My Faith Easter Epilogue: The Chapel Choir Peter’s School, Cambridge Buck Gibbons Ah, Holy Jesus (Chorale from St. Matthew Passion) I Follow in Gladness (Air from. §t. John Passion) ach O Filli et Fillae (Euster Processtonal) arr. Davies How Great the Harvest (Dutch Melody) 10.30 IVD 200 9. 4a.m. 9 30 arr, Shaw Close down ROTORUA 375 m A Handel Concert The Burtons of Banner Street 10. 0 At the Piano: Walter Gieseking 10.16 bevotional Service 10.30 Hymns by English University Choirs 11.10 Excerpts from St. Matthew Passion Bach 11.26 Musie by London Orchestras 1. Op.m. Dinner Music 2. 0 Music for Easter: EF. Power Biggs (organ) with Roger and Rene Voisin (trumpets (VOA) /-6©2.15 A Child of Our Time: An Oratorio by Michael Tippett (BBC) -63.36 Islands of the Sunbird: The Story of a Keeent Visit to Indonesia (BRC) Se The Swabian Choral Society Cantata No. 112 Bach 4.30 Folk Song and Dance 5.15 Baritones and Basses 6.30 The Music of Kreisler 6.5 From the Ballet 6.45 Famous Love Songs 7. 0 Short Story: The Red Planet, the second of three tales of Love, Space and Time, by Arnold Wall (NZBS) 15 Songs Without Words Mendelssohn 7.30 i te GRAHAM (contralto) ecit Mage: Now is Common Gow Green Our Fertile Pastures Look (Solomon) Beneath the Cypress’ Gloomy Shade (Susanna) Here Amid the Shady Wood (Alexander Balus) Recit ani ‘Whither Should We Fly? ‘ks With Rosy Steps Handel (Studia) 7.50 Instrumental Music of Bach 8.10 Excerpts from Messiah Handel 8.40 Band Music 9.30 Encore 1025 Stars to Steer By: The personal philosophy of Leslie Clements (NZBS) 10.30 Close down 2 6. 9. 4 0 a.m. WELLINGTON $70 ke. $26 m. Breakfast session Whitmore and Lowe (duo-pianists) with songs by Dorothy Kirsten 9.80 Mornina Sta : Andres Segovin 9.40 Meredith Wilson and his Orchestra 10.10 Dbevotional Service 10.30 Hlester’s Diary 41. 0 Music for Easter 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. CLASSICAL HOUR: Wagner Prelude to Parsifal Flower Maidens Scene ( Parsifal) Good Friday Musie (Parsifal) Transformation Scene (Parsifal) 3.0 Stations of the Cross (from St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church) | 4.15 The Romantic Music of Fritz: Kreister 4.35 Chopin Waltzes: Ronnie. Munro’s Orchestra 5.15 The Story of Jesus, presented by Claude Raines $.20 Musie of Purcell 0 Fvenine Serenade Waltz Time with Mantovani 7.45 Song and Sterv of the Maori (NZBS) 8.90 Natan Milstein (violin). with the R C.A. Victor Orchestra 8.33 Book Shop (NZBS) 9.20 Lenten Carols and Customs, arranged and presented by Myra Thomson (soprano), with Reta Wootton (contreulto), John Seott (lenor Graebame Johnson (bass), Trevor Hutton (flute), and Natalie Taylor (piano, (NZBS) 7.48 Rewie7 ant Landaner 10. 0 The Glory Road: A Negro anthology produced’ by Charles Chilton, featuring Josh White. an aaCr folk singer (B 10.30 The Strings of Stordahl 11.20 Close down

4 HOO pet 8 5. Op.m, Early Evening Concert 6. 0 Dinner Music 17. 0 Emmanuel Feuermann (eello) and symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Matcolm Sargent coneerto in, D Haydn 7.30 John Randal (organ) Music of Karg-Elert: Portraits, Op, 10%: Handel, Haydn, Johann Strauss and Macdowell Impressions, Op, 102; Tempo di Valse, Forgotten Stauza Idylts, Op. 104: Sundown The Penitent Interludes: D, G, Mixolydian Mode, and Cc (NZBS) (Second in series) (to be repeated from 2YA at 4.30 on Sunday) | 8. 0 Fortnightly Review: A programme Surveying activities in the arts, introduced by Owen Jensen (NZBS) 8.30 The BBC Choral Society and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with Elsie Morison and Marjorie Avis (sopranos), Nancy’ Thomas (contralto), Richard Lewis and Jobn Dunean (tenors), William Parsons (baritone), Owen Branhigan and Norman Walker (basses) and Thurston Dart (harpsichord), conducted by Sir Adrian Boult (BBC) St. John Passion Bach (During an interval at approximately 9.50 There will be a reading of St, John’s Gospel, Chapters 18 and 19) 11. 0 Close down OY, WELLINGTON | 7. Op.m. Vera Lynn Sings (a repetition of Thursday’s Dbroadeast from 2¥A) 7.30 Comedy Time 7.45 The Golden Salamander 3. 0 Melody Highway 8.45 The Webb Tilton Programme 8.30 Variety Fanfare (BBC) 9. 0 9.39 1 Serenade luspector West 0. 0 District Weather Forecast Close down XG. O10 GISBORNE, a, 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9. 0 Musie for Easter 9.30 Organs and Baritones 9.45 he Kentucky Minstrels 10. 0 he Old Folks’ Reqnests 10.45 The Lilt of the Waltz 41. 0 Glose down . Op.m. For the Children; The Small 30 Dinner. Muste eo i) Dear Friends and. Gentle Hearts: Dedicated ta Stephen Foster ; .30 Readings from Shakespeare’s works by Sir Laurenee Olivier and Anthony Quay le 45 ~~ Killeen Jovee (plano) 8. 3 Melody, Just Melody 8.30 Albert Sandler’s Orehestra 8.45, Test Pilot: High Altitude Flying, by’ J. B Stirky -_(NZBS) . 9. 3 "Handel: Margiret -- Hyde (soprano), Heddle Nas (tenor), Thursten Dart (harpsichord), eraint Jones (organ), the BBC Chorus and the Goldsborough Orchestra conducted by Boris Ord Organ Concerto No. 1 Chorus: Chandos Anthem No, 10 1 Will Offer ’ It is the Lord Sing Praise The Lord is My Light Organ Concerto No. 1h (BBC) 40. 0 ZB Rook Review (NZBS) 10.30 Close down

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Friday, April 16

V1. 860 .. NAPIER 349 m. 9. 4a.m. Housewives’ Choice 40. 0 Combined Service: St. Paul’s Church Preacher: Principal Emeritus Ss. F. Hunter Orgunist: Ss. G. Pearce 41. O Choruses and Soloists 421.15 Life in Labrador: it’s a Cold Life, the finat talk by Kathleen Hodgson philosophy of Elsie Nelson (NZBS) 41.34 Fritz kKreisler (violin) 11.45 franz Winkler singers 42. 0 Dinner Music 2. Op.m. The Robert Shaw Chorale, directed by Robert Shaw The Lamentations of Jeremiah Tallis (VOA) Cliffera Curzon and the’ National Symphony Orchestra of England conducted by Enrique Jorda Piano Coneerto No, 1 in D_ Minor, Op, 15 Brahms 3. 0 Window on the Cameroons: Colin Wills telis of a visit to that strange aud beautiful region of West Africa, illustrating bis story with recordings made on his journey (BBC) 3.30 London Studio Melodies: Jack Coles and his Orchestre Moderne with Bruce Trent (BBC) 4.0 The Mountebank 4.23 Mantovanis Orchestra Victor Herbert Suite 5. 0 Giuseppe Valdengo (baritone) and Suzanne bhanco (soprano) 6.15 Children’s Session: Stamp Club; The Ineredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (NZBS) 5.45 Time for Music (BBC) 7. 0 Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Fiste Suddaby (soprano), Erie Greene (tenor) and William Parsons (bass) with the Bach Choir and the Jacques Orchestra Excerpts from St. Matthew Passion Bach 8. 0 Members of the New Symphony Orchestra Fantasia on Greensleeves » Maughan-Williams Ljuba Welitsch (soprano) Lied und €zardas (Gipsy Love) Viljalied (The Merry Widow) Lehar 1 Give My Heart (The Dubarry) Miilocker Strange Arrival The» Zarewitsch) Lehar Symphony Orchestra conducted by tsidore Godfrey Overture: The Mikado Sullivan Eileen Joyce (piano) Waltz from Faust Gounod-Liszt Kathleen Joyvee (contralto) Lord Randall arr, Bantock The Swiss Romande Orehestra conducted by Victor Olof Bacearolle (Tales of Hoffman) Offenbach Praeludium darnefelt Valse Triste Sibelius Rallet Suite: La Source Delibes | Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) Mascagni 9.58 The Vienna Symphony Orchestra 9.30 The Affairs of Harlequin | 10.30 Close down | O°XPNEW PLYMOUTH 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 3.3 Irmgard Seefried (soprano) and Heddle Nash (tenor) | 9.30 Violin Sonata in D ‘Handel 9.45 John Langstaff (baritone) 40. 0 Victor Herbert Suite: Mantovani’s Orchestra 40.40 Sacred Music ey 0 Close down . Op.m. Chorus and Orchestra 6.30 Time for Music (BBC) 7:0 Concert Artists 7.30 The London Philharmonic Orchestra Peer Gynt Suites Nos, 1 and 2 Grieg 8. 0 Crowned with Thorns: The story of Eastertide in verse and music (From St. Mary’s Church) 9..3 Music of Franz Lehar 9.45 Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians AO. O _At Close of Day 10.30 Close down aol ANGANY 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9.4 Ezio Pinza (bass) and the Melaehrino. Orchestra 9.30 Gracie Fields’ (soprano) Selection: Way Down South 40. 0 The Jacques String Orchestra 90.15 ‘Tchaikovski -Fantasy arr, Stolz 4046 The Luton Girls’ Choir 41.0 Close down 6. Op.m. Stories for Children 6.30 Classics in Cameo A

7. 0 Music by Schumann Andre Navarra (‘cello) ; Pieces in Folk Style Alfred Cortot (piano) Scenes trom Childhood, Op. 15 7.30 The Trinity Methodist Church | Choir, Phyitlis Brown (soprano), Dixon | Tizard (tenor), Alan Brown (baritune>, | Gordon Saunders Cchoirmaster) — and | Yvonne Puryer (orgun) Olivet to Calvary Maunder | (From Trinity Methodist Church) 8.30 London Studio Concerts Symphony No, 32 in G, k.3t8 Mozart The Banks of the Green Willow Butterworth | Overture; Froissart Elgar | (BBC) 9. 4 Organ Interiude 9.15 Gazooka: A .reminiscence of the Rhondda Valley, by Gwyn Thomas (BBC) 410.20 Quiet Melodies 10.30 Close down 2XN 1340 Py ELSON,,, m. 8. Oam. Breakfast Session | 9. 4 Sacred interlude ; | 9.30 Personal Portrait: Margot Oxford, by her step-daughter, Lady Violet. Bonham Carter (BBC) 9.44 Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor) 10. 0 BBC’ Bandstand: The National | Band of N#. conducted by kK. G. L. Smith 10.28 Recent Releases 41. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. Orchestra and Chorus 6.30 Instrumental Concert 7.0 Variety Fanfare (BIC) 7.45 Travels with a Guitar: Walt Disney, a talk by Victoria kingsley (NZBS) 8. 0 Favourite Celebrities 8.45 sowling: Resnlts and Review of the Nelson Centre’s Anonal Easter | Tournament 9. 4 Theatre Musie of the Masters 90. GO In Tranquil Mood 40.30 Close down CHRISTCHURCH 690 ke 434m 7.57 a.m. Catiterbury Weather Forecast 9. 4 Famous Overtures 9.45 Frosa Opera 410. 0 ANGLICAN SERVICE: Christchurch Cathedral Preacher: Very Rev. Martin Sullivan, Dean of Christchurch Organist and Cwhoirmaster: C. Foster Browne 41. O Salon Concert Players 11.145 Thiee Generations 411.30 Light Concert 12.33 p.m. The Melacbrino Orchestra and the Glasgow Orpheus Choir 1.0 Dinner Music 2.15 Jaseha Heifetz (violin) 2.45 Old Seottish Psalm Tunes: A, M. Henderson (organ) 3.0 CLASSICAL HOUR Exeerpts from the St. Matthew Passion Bach . 0 Musical Programme . 0 Children’s Service: Easter Programme .20 famous Melodies 0 London Studio Melodies Peter Yorke’s Com?’ * Orchestra sor Ct BBC) 7.30 Rawiez and der (duo-pianists) Musie by Johann strauss 7.39 British Light Orchestras 8. 0 The Sweet Country Life: Folk Songs of Rural Occupations, arranged and presented by Myra Thomson (soprano) with Reta Wootton (con tralto), John Scott (tenor), Graehame Johnson (bass), Natalie Tavior (niann: and Wrvovard Cobby (narrator) (Studio) 8.15 Will Glalte’s Harmonica and Accordion Ensembles 8.30 The Blue Danube 9.30 Inspector West 10.10 ‘The Little Orchestra Society Areadian Songs and Danees (Lonisiana Story Thomson 40.26 I.ate Evening Light Music 411.20 Close dow2 SVC GIRISTCHURGE 5. Op.m. Concert Hour 7.0 Pytheas: A dramatic speculation by Henry Reed, incidental musie by William Wordsworth, © with Frank Duncan as Pytheas, Esme Percy as Ctesiphon, Carleton Hobbs as Cleomenes, Neville Hartley as Agisthos, produced | py Douglas Cleverdon (BBC)

8.14 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Prelude and Good Friday Musie (Parsifal) Wagner 8.38 st. Jobn Passion (Part 1) Bach | The BBC Choral Society and the BBC Svinphony Orchestra with Elsie Morison | aud Marjorie Avis (sopranos), Naney rhomas (eontralto), Riehard Lewis and | John Dunean (tenorsy, William Varsons (baritone, owen Branbigan and Norman Walker (basses), and Thurston Dart (harpsichord), eonducted by sir Adrian Boult) (BBC) (Part 2 will be broadeast at 10.11) 10. 1 God and Human Suffering: Suffering and Redemption, the last talk by the Rey. J. G. Matheson (NZBS) 10.41 St. John Passion (Part 2) Bach (BBC) 11. 0 Close down 9V(,,, TIMARU 1160 ke 258 m. 8. Oa.m. Early Morning Session 9. O Instrumental Interlude 9.20 Hymns and Songs for Easter 10. O kiechard Crean’s Orchestra 10.145 The Morriston Orpheus Choir 410.30 Popular Concert 41. 0 Close down (6.30 p.m. Dinner Music i Poe Gauriseppe Valdengo (baritone) / Songs of Tosti | 7.20 The Albert sandler Trio 7.30 Les Chanteurs de Lyon, with. Le | Trigentuor Instrumental Lyonnais directed by BE. Bourtnauck Requiem ; Faure 8.10 The London Plilharmonic Orches- | tra conducted by Sir, Edward Elgar } Serenadesin E Minor for strings Elgar | 8.25 Short Story: Nothing to be Afraid Ol, by Ethel Fielding (NZBS) 8.45 Talk: Prophet Without Portfolio, by Wiliam R. Rol! (NZBS) 3 The. Paris Conservatoire Orchestra conducted by Anatole Fistoulari The Sleeping VPrincess Ballet: Acts 2 and 3 Tohaikovski 40. O ‘The Franz Winkler Quartet 10.145 At Close of Day 10.30 Close down 9. 4am. From Opera and Oratorio 9.45 Morning Star: Fritz kreisler 40. O Devotional Sevice 10.48 The Lilian Dale Affair 41. 0 Morning Concert 12. 0 Linch Musie 2. Op.m. Classical Music Cello Concerto in B Boccherini | Divertimento in F Haydn’ 2.30 The Guinea Pig, a play by Warren Chetham-Strode about the trials of a) brilliant Working class boy in- an English publie school (NZBS) 3.50 Showcase: Terry Vaughan and his Orchestra with soloists Ngaire Crawford | and Jim Greenlees (NZBS) 4.10 Ballads Old and New 4.45 Kk. Power Biggs (organ) with Roger and Rene Voisin (trumpets) Musie for Faster (VOA) 5. 0 The Robert Shaw Chorale Lamentations of Jeremuah Tallis (VOA) 5.15 Children’s Session: funior Natoral--ists: The Farm Witbout a Name (ABC) | 5.46 Dinner Music 7.30 N.Z. National Band conducted by K. G. L. Smith (NZBS) 8.10 The Combined Methodist and Pres- | byterian Church Choirs, wilh Lettie Clausen} (soprano), Joyvee Flarper (contralto), Russell Sumner (tenor), Maurice Smith. Charitone), and’ Errol Smith "(organ). condieted be &. Warwiek Newton Exeerpts from the St. Matthew Passion Bach (Delaved broadeast from St. Jobn’s Chureh) 8.54 Stars to Steer Ry: the personal philosophy of Tom Rowlands, of Christehureh (NZBS) 9.30 The Adventures of the Searlet Pimperne] 40. O Modern Variety 10.30 Close down DUNEDIN 780 ke. 384 m. 9. 4am. Morning Proms 9.30 Frederick Harvey (haritone) 9.45 London Symphony Orchestra Ballet Suite: Horoscope Lambert 10.15 Meditation for Good Friday; lev. J. G, Matheson

10.30 Lenten Carols and Customs, urranged aud presented by Myra Thomson (soprano), with Reta Wootton (contralto), John Scott (tenor), Graehame Jobnson (bass), Trevor Mutton (ute) and Natalie Taylor (piano) (NZbBS) 41. 0 Operatic Highlights 12. 0 JLuneh Musie 2. Op.m. Time for Music (BBC) 2.30 Reverence for Life: A programme ecomplled from the writings of Dr. Albert Schweitzer 3.30 (BBC) CLASSICAL HOUR Piano Sonata in A Minor, K.310 Mozart Francesea da Rimini, Op, 382 4.30 6. 0 7. 0 Tchaikovski Excerpts from Light Opera My son, Tom UNITED SERVICE: First Church conducted by Rey, J. Be Martin Preacher: Organist: hey. G. R. HH. Peterson George Wilkinson London Symphony Orchestra Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes 8.15 Comer songs of the Isles G. Williams Pat Woods (contralto), with Lesley (harp) arr. Roberton (Studio) x 8.30 Toreh of freedom 9.30 London Studio Melodies: Peter Yorke’s Concert Orchestra (BBC) 40. O Strictly Private 40.30 [fn Quiet Mood 114.20 Close down AYO 500 PUNEDIN,, ,. 5. Op.m. 7. 0 Early Evening Concert Sonata Recitals Arthur Rubinstein (piano) and Jascha Heifetz (violin) Sonata in A Franck Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano) Sonata No, 241 in €, Op. 53 (¢(Waldstein) Beethoven 7.55 Royd Neel String Orchestra with Thurston Dart (harpsichord) Concerto Grosso in B Flat, Op. 6, No. 7 Handel 3.10 St. John Passion (Part D Bach The BBC Choral Society and Symphony Orchestra with Elsie Morison and Marjorie Avis (sopranos), Naneyvy Thomas (contralto), Riehard Lewis and John DPunean (ienors), Willlam Parsons (Darifone), Owen Brannigan and Norman Walker (basses), and Thurston Dart (harpsichord), conducted by Sir Adrian Ponlt (RRC) : 9.33 The World of the Early Church, the final talk by Professor E. M. Blaiklock (NZBS) . 9.53 St. John Passion (Part 11) Sach (BRE) 10.43 Fernando Germani (organ) Passacagiia and Fugue in C Minor Bach 41. 0 Close down AY], INVERCARGILL 20 ke. 416 m, Excerpts from Oratorio 9. 4a.m. 9.30 0 10.18 10.30 11. 0 Feet "44.45 12. 0 Marsh, a4 ational 2.30 3. 0 4.0 | 5.15 fialliday Classical Cameo Devotional Service Organ Interlude Musie of the British Isles Short Story: The Giant witb the of Glay, by George Ewart-Evans {NZBS) Miniature Concert Lunch Musie Notable New Zeainders: portrait prepared for Women’s Session (NZBS) Alfred Cortot (piano) Excerpts from st. Matthew Passion Bach Ngaio the For the Violinist Viennese Waltz Orchestra and Erich (Daritone) Theatre Memories Children’s Hour: Junior Storytime; stories; Nature Talk by Olga Sansom-Barnacte Clans and Periwinkles NZBS) ~-~6.45 7. 0 7.30 1.45 William Giynne-Jones Ss) Musie for the Tea Hour After Dinner Music Piano tuettists Short Story: | Know a Bank, (NZBS) light opera. by Tantivy Tower, a bv A. P. flerbert and Thomas Dunhill, with Marjorie Westbury and Margaret Ritehe (sopranos), Gladys Parr (contralto), ‘Ronald Bristol (tenor), Murray Davies and Dennia Noble (bharitones), and the BRC Midland Light Orchestra and Chorus esnducted by Lea Wormser (BRE) 9.30 The Bova Neel String Orchestra with the Nottingham Oriana Choir, Kathlee Ferrier ceontrajto) and Joan Taylor (soprano) Mortify Us Through Thy Grace Bach Stabat Mater Pergolesi Vantasia on a Theme of. Tallis Vaughan Williams 10.30 £. Power Biggs (organ) 11.20 Close down

Friday, April 16

District Weather Forecast from ZBs: 7.30 a.m. 1.0 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.

Distriet Weather Forecast from ZBs: 7.30 a.m., 1.0 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.

1ZB mu Me 6. O4.m. Music for Morning : 8. 0 The Peer Gynt Suite Grieg 9. 0 Organ and Choral Music 9.30 We Travel the Friendly Road 10. 0 Concert Stage: Famous Pianists 10.15 Tenors and Basses 10.30 Ballet Suite 11. 0 Today’s the Day: Eastertide 11.30 An Album of Strauss Waltzes: Mantovani 12. 0 Music Menu 2. Op.m. Symphonic Suite of the Music of Jerome Kern 2.39 Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians 3. 0 Music of Manhattan: Norman Cloutier with Selectéd Artists 3.30 Chopin Waltzes by Ronnie Munroe and his Orchestra 4. 0 Yachtsmen’s Weather Forecast Music from the Films, Selections and Background Music from Famous Movies 5. 0 Stories from History: Queen Philippa and the Burghers of Calais EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Famous Overtures 6.30 Jane Froman Reminiscences 7. 0 Suite for Orchestra 7.30 Colossus, the Story of Cecil Rhodes (BBC) 8.30 The Rhapsodies of George Gershwin 9. 0 Song of Britain (BBC) 10. 0 Reserved 70.39 Collector’s items: Excerpts from Famous Stage Performances 11. 0 Musical Masterwork 11.30 Nocturne 12. 0 Close down 2ZB wre en 6. Oa.m. Breakfast session 9.0 Easter-Tide 9.30 Stars of the Concert Hall 10. 0 British Light Orchestras 10.30 Moment Musical } 11. 0 Morning Star 11.30 Stage Favourites 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Opera and Operetta 2.30 Pianists of Note 3.0 Baliet Music: Pineapple Poll 3.30 Memorable Performances 4.0 Magic Strings 4.30 Afternoon Concert 6. 0 Peter and the Wolf 5.30 Anna Russell Sings EVENING PROGRAMME 0 Dinner Music 0 Curtain Time 7.30 Destroyer (BBC) 8.30 Movie Time 9.0 A Man and His Music: Sir Edward German (BBC) 10. 0 Music for the Close of Day 12. 0 Close down 6. 7. 3ZB wwe am 6. Oa.m. It’s Early Morning Music 7. 0 Selected for Junior 8.0 Breakfast Ballads 9. 0 Choir and Organ 9.30 The Bands are on Parade 10. 0 Carnival of the Animals: Kostelanetz, the Orchestra, and the verses of ne tks Nash Read by Noel Coward 11. Musical Treasury 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Good Friday Matinee 5. 0 For the Children 4 Mother Goose: Kostelanetz Orchesra 5.30 The Crucifixion (Stainer) EVENING PROGRAMME | 6.0 Dinner Music: 6.30 A Man There Was (NZBS)

| 6.45 Peter Durning Sings |-7.30 The Boy from Greece (BBC) 8.30 The Snow Goose: Paul Gallico | 9. 0 Songs of the British Isles (BBC) 44. 0 A Little on the Lighter Side | 12. 0 Close down 47B 1040 ar ee m. | 6. Oa.m. Breakfast Session | 746 Weather Forecast | 7.856 Morning Star | 9. 0 Music for Good Friday Morning ) 10. 0 The Boston Promenade Orchestra /10.80 Various Choirs 14. 0. Band Parade: N.Z. Bands : 11.30 Celebrity Artists 12. 0 The Stars Entertain 1. Op.m,. Maoriland Melodies 1.30 The Orchestras of Percy Faith and George Melachrino . (2.0 Songs by Marian Anderson : 2.30 Good Friday Matinee 3. 0 Morton Gould’s Orchestra and John McHugh (tenor) 4. 0 Strauss, Lehar and Waldteufei Melodies 4.30 Songs of Yesterday 5. 0 English and American Light Orchestras EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Popular Light Classics a" Felix King and his Orchestra with Mary Martin and Bing Crosby -7.30 A Quest in the Desert (BBC) --8.30 Reserved 9. 0 Tantivy Towers: A Light Opera by A. P. Herbert and Thomas Dunhill (BBC) 10. 0 Late Evening Variety Concert 11. 0 At Close of Day 12. 0 Close down > 27 PALMERSTON Nth. 940 ke. 319 m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9. 0 Dominion Weather Forecast 9. 4 Light Coneért: Richard Tauber (tenor), Horst Schimmelpfennig (organist) and the Richard Crean 9.30 Passion Music from Messiah Handel 9.50 Piano Interlude: Jose Iturbi 10. O Robert Farnon’s Orchestra and the Johnston Singers: Music by MHoagy Carmichael 10.15 Songs from Operetta: Jeannette MacDonald (soprano)

10.30 Two Waltzes by Josef Strauss Delirien, Op, 212 Village Swallows from Austria 10.45 The Comedy Harmonists 11. 0 Harry Chapman’s Music Lovers 11.15 Kramer and Wolter (pianoaccordion duets) 11.25 Wiusic by Glazounov The Paris Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Manuél Rosenthal Baliet Suite: Raymonda, Op. 657A 12. 0 Lunch Music , & ‘0 p.m. The London Symphony Orchestra 2.15 Mario Lanza (tenor) 2.30 Florian Zasach (violin) 2.45 The George Mitchell Choir 3. 0 The Snow Goose, by Paul Gallico: An adaptation by Nat Wolff featuring Herbert Marshall, Joan Lorring and auppessine cast 3. Recent Releases from Britain 4. 0 Francis Scott’s Orchestra ~ 4.15 Artists of the. English Concert Stage 4.45 Mario Lorenzi 5. 0 David Whitfield 5.15 Marches by Sousa 5.30 For the Children: Featuring Two Stories, The Rabbits Go Hunting, and The Cat Who Arranged Things | EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 Folk Songs and Ballads: Burl Ives 6.45 Rawicz and Landauer (duo-pianists) r The Tonhaile Orchestra of Zurich conducted by Robert Stolz Music by Robert Stolz 7.20 The Capitol Chorus conducted by Peter J. Wilhousky

7.30 Rendezvous in Crete (BBC) 8.30 The . Garde Republicaine Saxo« phone Quartette 8.45 Popular Music from Europe: Will Glahe’s Orchestra 9. 0 Music of Lionel Monckton (BBC) 10. 0 Chris Hamilton’s Hammond Organs 10.15 David Rose and his Orchestra 10.30 Close down Ee", Marian Anderson, the American Negro contralto, was born in 1908 and first appeared with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in 1925 at the Lewisohn Stadium, New York. This appearance took place after winning a4 cémpetition against 300 competitors. FoHowing a recital at the New York Town Hall, she studied in Europe and later toured among other countries Germany,. Italy, Holland and Russia -making her formal debut in a recital at Carnegie Hall in 1935, Since then Marian Anderson has toured the States with great success, also making recordings and radio appearances. Lis ten to 4ZB at 2 o’clock for "Songs by Marian Anderson." = * * Josef Strauss, although dwarfed somewhat by his brother Johann, nevertheless made an important contribution to light music. Two of the best-known waltzes to be written by Josef Strauss will be brondcast by 2ZA at half past ten this morning.