Good Friday, April 8

New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 38

Good Friday, April 8

760 ke. 395 m, . -m. . Goncert Hour 10. 0 COMBINED SERVICE FOR GOOD FRIDAY: Pitt Street Methodist Church Preacher: Kev. Ceeil Dicks Organist: Arthur Reid 11. 0 English Celebrity Artists 41.30 Favourite Orchestral liems 12. 0 Devotions for the Three Hours: from St. Mary’s Cathedral, conducted by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Auckland 3.30 p.m. With Heart and Voice (for detaHs, see 4YA) 4. 0 English Composers Enigma Variations Elgar These Things Shall Be ireland Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Vaughan Williams ly, AUCKLAND 5. 0 Choruses from Opera 5.15 Light Concert 6. 0 Negro Spitituals ‘ 7.8 Crucifixion, by Stainer (for details, see 3YA) = 8. 0 The Story of Eastertide, written by Anthony Scoit-Beach 8.30 Auckland Radio Orchestra, directed hy Oswald Cheesman (NZBS) 9.30 Jose Iturbi (piano) 9.45 African Melodies (BBC) 10.15 Mado Robin (soprano) 10.30 Music by Schubert 11 Close down AUCKLAND 880 ke pm. Dinner Music Julius Baker (flute), Joseph Fuchs (violin) and Lillian Fuchs (viola) Serenade in D, Op. 25 Beethoven Reginald Kell (clarinet), Frank Miller Cecello) and Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano) Trio in E Flat, K.498 " Mozart 7.45 Mark Raphael (baritone) Songs by Quilter and Wolf 8.2 Wilhelm Kempf! (piano) fromatic Fantasia’ and Fugue in D Minor Bach $.15 The London Symphony Orchestra Symphony No, 4 in E Minor Brahms 9. 0 The Dying of the Lord Jesus (For details, see 3YC) 10. 0 The Philharmonia String Quartet | Quartet in A Minor, Op. 29 Schubert 10.35 Organ Music by Cesar Franck Chorale No. 1 in E eee oo mt fy NO Pastorale. Op. 19 Close down Tp GE CRLAND 10. Oa.m. Good Friday Sacred Selections 10.20 Light Orchestras 11. 0 String Time 11.40 Carmen Cavallaro (piano) 12. 0 Song Aibum 12.20 p.m. Robert Parnon Concert 1.0 Trumpet Solos 1.20 Golden Minutes of Folk Music 1.40 Jan Corduwener’s Orchestra YS Erna Sack Sings 2.40 noeneody in Bine Gershwin 3. 0 in the Spirit of Easter, a Special Commemorative Feature 3.30 Album of Favourites 4.0 Gershwin Songs 4.20 Rhythm on Reeds 4.40 Operetta Selections 5. 0 Evening Overture 5.15 Hawaiian Harmony 5.30 Hit Memories 6. 0 Star Time: Jane Froman 6.15 Melody Time 6.45 Chips ; : 7. 0 The Mantovani. Orchestra anda George Mitchell Choir Behind the Footlights Mario Lanza (tenor) Listeners’ Classical Requests The Hour of Charm O District Weather Forecast ‘lose down IXN »,SYHANGARGI | 8. 0 a.m. Breakfast Session 9. 0 Weather Forecast and Northland BS = -* OWN! o' ° oow 9. 3 The AVestminster Light Orchestra condrcted by Lestie Bridgewater Folk Songs from the British Isles 9.15 "Star Time: Giancinto Prandelli (tenor) 9.30 . From Stonehenge to Calvary 10. 0 Joerg Demus (piano) , kreisieriana, Op. 16 Schumann 10.33 The Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Stolz. A Tchaikovski Fantasy arr. Stolz 11. 0 Close down

6. Op.m. Kostelanetz Conducts 6.30 The Kentucky Ministrels 6.45 The Grand Opera Ofchestra 7. 0 By Heart: Well-known Poems read by Sir Ralph Riehardson (BBC) 7.15 London Studio Recitals: The BRC singers conducted by Leslie Woodgate / (BBC) 745 Short Story: The Accident, by Anton Vogt, told by William Austin (NZBS) 8. 0 The London Philharmonic Orchestra A London Symphony Vaughan Williams 8.45 Elisabeth Schumann (soprano) 9.3 The New Syniphony Orchestra Overture: L’italiana in Algeri Rossini Prelude to Act tll, La Wally Catalani Overture: Nabnueco Verdi Intermezzo: Manon Leseaut Puccini 9.30 Talk: Family Daze. by Jillian Squire (NZBS) 9.40 Givnne Adams, Elsa Jensen (violins), Winifred Stiles (viola) and Valmai_ MotTett (cello) | Quartet in E Flat Dittersdorf 10. 0 Quiet Melodies 10.30 Close down TMH tEAM TON, 0 Oa.m. hreakfast Session 3 Voices if Warmony 9.45 Frank Chacksfleld’s Orchestra 10. 0 Paris in Song 10.15 Jose Iturbi Recital 10.30 Short Story: The Porgotten Yard, by F. B. Walton (NZBS 11. 0 Music for Good Friday 11.30 Oratorio Singers 12.0 Mid-day Musical 12.15 p.m. Choral Preludes 12.33 Lunch Music 1.30 The Nuteracker Suite Tehaikovski 2.30 Hedy Biland (violin) and Gordon Orange (organ) The Rearing of the Cross The Road to Golgotha The Crucitixion (The Pifteen Mystery Sonatas) von Biber (From st. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church) 3. 0 By Heart (BRC) 3.30 The Country Doctor 3.45 WU) Glahe’s Orchestra 4.0 Popular. Classies 4.30 From the Pamily Album 5. & Children’s Corner: Rusty in Orches‘aville; lehahod 5.30 On Wings of Song 5.45 Traditional Airs 6. 0 Cinema Concertos 6.30 Dinah Shore and Perry Como 6.45 Waltz Memories 7. 0 Masters of Melody (BRC) 7.30 Paris Star Time (FBS) 8. a Playhouse of Favourites: The Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 8.30 Variety Fanfare (BRC) 8. 4 Quest in the Desert (fhRC) 10. O Easter Epilogue 10.30 Close down IVT soo 4am. Negro Spirituals '30 A Handel Concert 0.146) Pevotional service 0.30 Jacques string Orchestra 4. For Women at Home: The Origin of Nursery Khymes, by Barbara aeaber r; Alex Lindsay Talks on Musie 22200

11.30 Pietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Songs by Wolf 12. 0 Music by English Composers 1. Op.m. Dinner Misie 2.0 Musie by Commonwealth Composers: BRC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 3.0 With Heart and Voice (for details, see 4YA) 4.0 Songs Without Words Mendelssohn .20 The sacred Muste of Bach 15 For Our Younger Listeners: The 4a 5 | Magie Key '-~+5.45 Orchestral serenade 6.45 Wales, Land of song '7. 0 Musie tor Everyman 7.30 Lenten Carols and Customs: | urranged and presented by Myra Thomson (soprano) and Reta Wootton (contralto), John Scott (tenor), Graeme Johnson (bass), Treyor Hutton (fnte, and Natalie Taylor (piano) (NZBS) 7.43 Early Voeal Music 8.8 MARGARET CRAWSHAW (piano) Sonata in A Pastorale Scartatti Fantasie in C Minor a oat Bagatelle in E Flat, Op, 33, No. Rapsody in E Flat, Op. 119, No ie (Studio). | $8.39 Women in Musie 9.30 Mastersof Melody (BBC) 10. 0 Champion Brass Bands 40.30 Close down NY4 WELLINGTON $70 ke. 526 m. 5. Oam. Bfeakfast Session 7.58 Wairarapa, Wellington City, and Hutt Valley, and Marlborough Weather Forecasts 9. 4 The London Philharmonie Orchestra 9.30 Morning Star: Leon Goossens 8.40 Mantovani’s Album of Favourite Melodies 10.10 bevotional Service 10.30 ‘The Lillian Dale Affair 11. 0 With Heart and Voice: A meditation for Good Friday, with Manritz Engelen (tenor), George Wilkinson (organ), the King "Kdward Technical College Girls’ Choir, Members of the Dunedin Choral Society and. String Orchestra,. directed by W.. H. . WaldenMills, narrator, Norman Grimths , (NZBS) 12. 0 Luneh Music / 2. Op.m, Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68, (The Pastoral) Aria: Ah Perfido, Op. 65 3. 0 Stations of the Cross (From &t. ierard’s Redemptionist Church) 4.15 Ballet Memories 4.40 Eugene Conley sings keyboard Favourites 1 5.4 Music by Pureell 6. DF i) ~ The Little Log Sellers (BBC) 0 Evening Serenade 0 ANNUAL COMBINED GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE: St, Andrew’s Church Conducted by Rev. J. S, Somerville Preacher; Dean D. J. Davies Organist and Choirmaster: Peter Avert 8. 0 song and Story of the Maori (NZBS) 8.15 Gypsy Magic: Victor Young's Singing Strings

OM MM ME $40 Songs of England: Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano 9.30 Music for Pleasure 10. O Great Gettin’ Up Morning 10.22 Rawiez and Landauer 10.34 The George Melachrino Orehestra 11.20 (lose down 9Y( WELLINGTON | 660 ke, 5. Op.m. Karly Evening Concert 6.0 Dinner Music 7. 0 The Nazareth Decree: Archaeology and the Resurrection, a talk for aster week by Protessor E, M. Blaiklock (NZBS) 7.14 The Griller String Quartet | The Seven Last Words trom the Cross Haydn 8.19 Paintings for Easter: A programme prepared by Br. Gerda FKichbaum-Bell introducing readings of paSsages in which famous critics describe and = interpret some outstanding religious paintings 4 (NZBS) 8.49 Gerard Souzay (baritone) Songs by A. Searlatti 9. 0 The Dying of the Lord Jesus (For details, see 3YC) 10. 0 The Art of Letters: The Public Letter, by Professor |. A. Gordon (NZBS) 10.20 The Halle Orchestra Overture: Don Pasquale Donizetti Horn Coneerto No. 4 in E Flat, K,495 Mozart Symphony No, 4 in A, Op. 90 (ltallan) Mendelssohn 11, 0 Close down 2YD 1130 ke os m. 7. Op.m. Music for Everyman 7.30 Tenor Time 7.45 Heart of the Sunset 8. 0 Song Styles 8.15 Reminiscin’ with Singin’ Sam 8.30 The London Musie of Erie Coates 9. 0 Girls’ Choirs 9.15 Rawicz and Landauer 9.30 Lew Williams’ Concert Orchestra 10. 0 District Weather Forecast Close dowyp OXG roo GISBORNE, 8. Oam. Breakfast session 9. 0 bominion Weather Forecast 9. 2 Music by Bach 920 Jose tturbi (piano) 9.49 Heddle Nash (tenor) 10. 0 Requests from the Old Folks 10.30 Musical Comedy Classics 10.46 Two Hearts in Waltz Time 11. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. For the Children 6.30 Albert Sandler and his Orchestra 6.50 Victoria de lds Angeles (soprano) ye The Motion Picture in the World of Music 7.35 Semprini 7.45 Negro Spirituals by Ellabelle Davis 8.3 Educating Archie (BBC) 8.35 Franz Winkler Quartet 8.45 Juscha Heifetz a. 2 BBC Concert Hall: The London Philharmonic Orchestra with tris Love-_ ridge (piano) Coneerto Corwithen Sympbony in €, No. 41 Mozart (BBC) 10. 5 At Close of Day 410.30 Close down

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27, 860 ,. NAPIER 349 be 9. 4am. Housewives’ Choice 10. 0 COMBINED SERVICE: St. Paul's. Presbyterian Church 11. 0 Women’s Session 11.30 Master Music 12. 0 Luneh Music 2. Op.m. Ballet Music: Giselle Adam 2.30 For Our Scottish Listeners 2.50 Light Instrumentalists 3. 0 i. Heart and Voice (for details, see 4. 0 Melba 4.30 The Cincinnati Summer Opera Orchestra, and the Winkler Trio 5.15 Children’s Session: Peter Pan (BBC); Peter Rabbit 5.45 Dinner Music ; ER Song of Britain: Choirs from all parts of the British [sles (BBC) 8. O The Boston Promenade Orchestra 8.30 Huddersfield Choral Society Behold the Lamb of God He Was Despised (Soloist: Gladys Ripley) Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs (Messiah) Handel Leon GOossens (Gbo0e) Sinfonia (Easter Oratorio) Bach Parry Jones (tenor) and Harold Williams (baritone) Man of God It is Enough (Elijah) Mendelssohn Marian Anderson (contralto) O Rest in the Lord (Elijah) Mendelssohn 9.30 The Searlet Pimpernel 9.54 On the Sweeter Side 10.30 Close down OXPNEW PLYMOUTH 8. Oa.m. Breakfast session %. 3 Guiseppe Valdengo (baritone) and Ossy Renardy (violin) 9.30 The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra . Nuteracker Suite, No, 2. Tehaikovski 10. O Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) 10.16 Nikita Magaloff (piano) Music by Chopin 10.30 Sacred Music 11. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. Dinner Musie 7. 2 Ellabelle Davis (soprano) sings Negro Spirituals ‘ 7.15 Fernando Germani (organ) 7.30 BBC Orchestra and Soloists Serenade to Music Vaughan Williams 7.45 dJascha eifetz (violin) 8.0 London Studio Concerts: The BBC Scottish Orchestra -. v Overture: The Kiss Smetana Second Scottish Rhapsody MacKenzie Fantasy Seenes Harty (BBC) $8.30 Arthur Rubinstein (piano) and Reniamino Gigli (tenor) 9. 3 The Swiss Romande Orchestra Serenade No. 9 in D, K.320 (Posthorn) Mozart 9.45 Famous Choirs 40. O At Close of Day 10.30 (Close down XA s.SYANGANUL 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9. 4 Music for Good Friday 9.30 Interlude for Strings 45 The London Baroque Ensemble 0 Folk Songs . 45 sigimund Romberg Suite 45 Film Favourites 0 close down . Opm. For Our Younger’ Listeners: Peter and the Wolf, by Prokotleff 6.30 Conquest of the Air: A programme to mark the 50th Anniversary of the First Powered Flight (BBC) 7.30 JOHN McDONALD (haritone) Le Me Wander Not Unseen Silent "Worship Spring Where e’er you Walk Handel (studio) 7.45 The London Philharmonic Orchesra Suite: Water Music Handel-Harty Nom de Plume Recital by Kathleen Ferrier Departure Delayed At the Console The Blue Danube Anna Karenina For the Close of Day Close down R80 fae 2A0 00 MMM Bo

OXN 1340 JNELSON 224 m, 8. Oam, Breakfast Session 9. 4 Sacred Classical Song Recital 9.30 Dead Men’s Bellis: An account of the life and work of William Withering, the first man to use the foxglove flower it medicine (BBC) 10. 0 Recent Releases 10.30 Popular Orchestral Classics 41. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. Dinner Music 6.45 Talk: Two Tivolis, by Gerda Eich-baum-Bell 7.90 The Nelson Singers conducted by Ralph Lilly, with soloists Patricia Barry (soprano), Marjorie Nightingale (contralto), the Nelson String Players and Arthur Lilly (organ) : Stabat Mater * (NZBS) 8. 0 The Affairs of Harlequin 8.30 Victor Young and his Singing Strings 8.45 Nelson Bowling Centre Annual Easter Tournament: Keview and results of the day’s play by J. McMahon 9. 4 Elizabeth’s Men: Thomas Gresham, Financier, by G. A. Naylor (NZBs) 9.18 Sweet Rhythm 9.45 Sentimental Ballads 10. O At the Close of Day 10.30 Close down 3 CHRISTCHURCH 690 ke. 434 m. 7.58 a.m. Canterbury Weather Forecast 9. 4 Famous Works of Beethoven and Schumann 9.48 Maggie Teyte (soprano) 10. 0 Mantovani’s Orchestra . 10.15 Light English Musie 10.46 Popular Violin Encores 11. 0 COMBINED CHURCHES SERVICE: Oxford Terrace Baptist Church Preacher: Rev. Roland C, Hart Orgahist: J. Hosking Choirmaster: George MacAnn 12. Sp.m.. Light Music 1.0 Dinner Music 1.27 Canterbury Weather Forecast 2.0 Excerpts from Opera 2.15 Walter Gieseking (piano) 2.30 The Kirkintifioch Junior Choir 2.45 Overtures in the Favourite Style 3. With Heart and Voice (for details, see 4YA) ; 4. 0 A Quiet Interlude 415 Musie by Gershwin 4.32 Three Concert Violinists 4.45 The London Promenade Orchestra 5. 0 Children’s Service, conducted by Very Rev. Martin Sullivan, Dean of Christchureh 3 Twilight Tunes 6. 0 Light Orchestral and Vocal Music aa The Crucifixion, by Stainer: A recording of a performance given last Good Friday in All Souls’ Chureh, London, by the BBC Chorus, Rene Soames (tenor), George Pizzev (baritone) and . George Thalben-Ball (organ) (BBC) British Film Music New Zealanders on Record Popular Light Classics Inspector West Tehaikovski Melodies Traditional Scottish Songs Lignt Music $ Clase down ay CHRISTCHURCH = — ao : w 960 k 5. Fae concert Hour 6. The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Boris Christof! (bass) 7. 0 Masterworks from France La Petite Symphonie (For Woodwinds) Gounod Capriccio Ibert (FBS) 7.28 Walter Gieseking (piano) ¢ 7.40 Virtuosi di Roma 8. 0 ALICE GRAHAM (contralto) Biblical Songs Dvorak (Studio) 8.15 Leopold Wlach (clarinet) and the Vienna Concerthouse Quartet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 Fe toa 9.0 The Dying of the Lord Meditation for Good Friday, ein nthe Durham Street Methodist Chureh Choir,

Grace Blair (soprano), Raymond. .Sanders (tenor), Gordon Mathieson (organ), under the direction of Melville Lawry; Peter Varley, Davina Whitehouse and William Austin wood (narrator) "(NZBS) 410. O Yehudi Menwhin (violin) and Louis Kentner (piano) Sonata No. 4 10.17 Frederick Gulda (piano) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto No, 1 in C, Op. 15 Beethoven 11. 0 down ONC 100. IMARU, ,, 8. 0 a.m. 9. 4 9.20 (readers), and Roy Leyin B Minor Bach and the Close Early Morning Session Reginald Kell Plays kKreisler The Kentucky Minstrels 9.45 Musie for Strings 10. 0 Dolf van der Linden ropole Orchestra 10.15 The Choir of and his Metthe Bach Guild and the Vienna State Opera’ Orchestra conducted by Felix Prohaska, with Anny Felbermayer (soprano), Erika Wien (alto), Hugo Meyer Welfing (tenor) and Norman Foster (bass) Cantata: Through Bitter Tribulation Bach 41. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. Music for Dining 6.30 The Morriston Orpheus Choir and the Guarde Republicaine Saxophone Quartet 7..0 7.15 7.40 8. 0 8.25 Ga. Interlude from Gracie Fields Anthony de Bernarde’s Orchestra solo Performance Music for Good. Friday Short Story: Atlanta’s Vineyard, by A. Wall (NZBS) 8.45 Talk: Dairy Produce, by J. D. McDonald (NZBS) 9.3 Lisa Della Casa (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra C. with the Four Last Song's Strauss 9.25 The Westminster Light Orchestra Folk Songs from the British Isles arr. Gibbs 10. 0 Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth 10.15 Reverie with Freddy Gardner 16.30 Close down OVD 2S REYMOUTH 758 a.m. West Coast Weather Forecast .4 Good Friday Music 9.45 Morning Star: Richard Crooks 10. 0 Devotional Service 10.18 Country Doctor 40.30 Hospital Requests 11.0 The Story of Jesus, narrated by Claude Raines 411.145 Concert Programme 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. London Studio Concert The New Symphony Orchestra Overture: Freischutz Suite: Hungarian Mareh 2.45 3. 0 see 439 5. 0 5.15 (BBC); 5.45 7. 0 8. with details The Four Seasons Leon pool 9.30 10. 0 Concerto Weber Bizet Berlioz Intermezzo With Heart and Voice (for details, Carmen 4YA) Familiar Songs and Ballads Alec Templeton (piano) Children’s Session: Once Upon a Time Dinner Musie The Crucifixion, see 3YA) The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Reinhold Barchet (solo violin) Vivaldi Goossens (oboe) with the LiverPhilharmonic Orehestra Cimarosa-Benjamin Picture bor) = 7 Hobson’s Choice Peer Pan by Stainer (for Soft Lights and Sweet Music 10.30 Close down DUNEDIN 780 ke. 384 m. 9. 4a.m, Morning Proms 10. 0 Atonement and Redemption: A reading for Good Friday by Philip Smithells 10.15 Lenten Music 10.380 kathleen Long (piano), with Concertzgebouw Orchestra of "Amsterdam Concerto in G Minor, K.491 Mozart 14. 0 Light Concert 42.0 Dinner Music 2. Op.m. Journey Underground: A documentary Oh a West Coast Coalmine (NZBS)

[2.30 Robert Weisz. (piano) Waltzes, Op, 39 Brahms 3. 0 With Heart and Voice, A meditation for Good Friday, with Mauritz Engelen (tenor), George Wilkinson (organ), the king Edward Technical College Girls’ Choir, Members of the Dunedin Choral Society and String Orchestra directed by W.. H. Walden-Milis; narrator, Norman Grifiths (NZBS) 4.0 CLASSICAL HOUR Overture (Suite)) in C Handel Symphony in GC, K.5541 (Jupiter) Mozart Trio in B Flat, Qp. 11 Beethoven 6. 0 The Don Cossacks on Parade 5.20 Mantovani’s Orchestra Victor Herbert Suite 6. 0 Reveries for Saxophone 2.2 The Crucifixion, by Stainer (for details, see 3YA) 8. 0 The Zimbler Sinfonietta Symphony No. 2 in A ; Boyce 8. 6 Songs of Purcell 8.17 Introduction and Survey: James Robertson discusses the National Orchestra’s programmes for the 1955 Dunedin season 8.30 London Studio Concerts (BBC) 9.30 Dad and Dave ; 10.0 A Man and his Music: Edward German (BBC) 41.20 Close down 4YC 900 DUNEDIN, m. 5. Op.m, Early Evening Concert y ae Julius Baker (flute) and Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord) Sonata No, 1 in B Minor Bach 7.17 Suzanne Danco (soprano) Songs by Mozart 7.28 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra Concerto Grosso in B Flat, Op. 6, No. ~ Handel 7.42 Artur Sehnabel (piano) Sonata in G Minor, Op. 49, No. 1 Beethoven 7.50 The Griller String Quartet The Seven Last Words from the Cross Haydn 9. 0 The Dying of the Lord Jesus (For details, see 3YC) 10. O Reinbold Barchet (violin) with the Stuttwart Chamber Orchestra Concerto in F Vivaldi 10.12 Agi Jambor piano), Victor Aitay (violin) and Janos Starker (’eello) Trio No. 5 in G, K.564 Mozart 10.27 Alois Heine (elarinet) and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra Coneerto No. 2 in E Flat Weber 41. 0 Close down AYE WAV ERCARGIE 9. 4am. Kirkintilloch Junior Choir 9.25 Classical Cameo 40. O Devotional Service 419.18 Organ Interlude 10.30 Mantovani’s Orchestra with Stanley Black (piano) 41. O Franz Lehar: The Man and his Music 11.30 Miniature Concert 2. Op.m. Short Story: I Know 4 Bank, by William Glynne-Jones (NZBS) 2.15 Symphonic Music Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal’s | Cave) Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in A Minor Grieg czech Rhapsody Weinberger 3. 0 With Heart and Voice (for details,. see 4YA) 4. 0 The Kingsway’ Orchestra 4.15 Song and Story of the Maori (NZBS) 4.30 Bands of the Salvation Army 5.0 #£Peter Dawson (hbass-baritone) 6.15 Children’s Session: Junior Storytime 6.45 Music for the Tea Hour 7. 0 The Crucifixion by Stainer (for details, see 3YA) 8. 0 The Londorw Philharmonic Orchestra Suite: The Falthful Shepherd Handel-Beecham 8.24 Virginia Paris (contralto) Forever Weeping (Rinaldo) Handel No Longer Let Me Languish Monteverdi Well Thou Knowest ; Torelli Mists Respighi | / Berg 8.88 Paul Badura-Skoda- and. Joerg Pemus (piano duettists) 9.30. Play: Mrs. Watts, by Lisa Sheridan, a stary from the private life of the EngTish actress Dame Ellen Terry (BBC) 10.30 An Eric Coates Concert 411.20 Close dowa :

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i ZB 1070 er ma 6. 0 a.m. Music for Easter Morn 7.15 Dominion Weather Forecast 8. 0 Musical Masterwork 8.30 Tchaikovski Fantasy 3. 0 Easter Hymns 9.30 Violin Recital: Alfredo Campoli 9.45 We Travel the Friendly Road 10.0 Music by Waldteufel and Strauss 10.30 Songs and Spirituals 10.45 Solo Piano 11. 0 Ray Bloch and his Orchestra 12. 0 Midday Musicale ey aes Dominion Weather Forecast 0 Great Sacred Choruses The Chain (BBC) 3 0 The Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles 3.30 Vocal Highlights from Lehar 4.0 Yachtsmen’s Weather Forecast; interlude for Harp 4.15 Famous Overtures 4.30 Prince of Peace 5. 0 Symphonic Suite: Kingsway Symphony Orchestra EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 New World Singers 6.30 The Lyn Murray Concert Orchestra 7. 0 The Song of Easter: Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians 8.0 For Dear Life (BBC) 9. 0 Great Voices 9.30 Music by Gershwin and Kern ° 1 Concert Hall 42. 0 Close down

2ZB wie em. 6. Oa.m. Breaktast Session Eastertide Music for Pleasure Ballads for Ali Time Strings on Parade Stars of the Concert Hall From Opera to Operetta Lunch Music -m. Celebrity Artists The Chain (BBC) Song Fiesta Favourite Movements from. the ymphonies Prince of Peace For Our Younger Listeners EVENING PROGRAMME Dinner Music You May Not Have Heard These Light Opera For Dear Life (BBC) Music from Hollywood Robin Hood Today’s Singers in Lighter Mood Music for the End of the Day Close down wo NAMOSw®: 380° & wb So ~oocoso ©ooc0 Th AWNNA=23200 o te] oo oe © w ® ooococo +222 OOWNND oooo 37 CHRISTCHURCH 1100 ke. 273 m, 6. 0 a.m. Break of Day 9. O Styled for Good Friday 10. 0 Masters of Melody 10.30 Operatic Highlights 11. O Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody: Lewis Kentner

11.15 Don Cossack Choir 11.30 Classical Symphony, by Prokofieff, played by the NBC Symphony Orchestra 12. 0 Music for Dining 2. 0 p.m. Microgroove Magic 2.30 The Chain (BBC) 3. 0 Stainer’s Crucifixion: Trinity Choir with Lawrence Tibbett-. and Richard Crooks 3.30 Concert Hour 4.30 Prince of Peace 5. 0 With the Orchestra 5.30 Junior Audience 2 EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Prelude to Evening --6.30 Glasgow Orpheus Choir 7. 0 Piano and Song 7.30 Concert Hour 8. 0 For Dear Life (BBC) §..0 World Programme Service 9.30 Man Without a Country 9.45 Varied Fare 10.30 Lighter Mood 12. 0 Close down AZB vine Soom 6. Oa.m. Breaktast Session 7.30 Weather Forecast 9.30 Melodies for Madame 10. 0 The Song of Easter 10.30 Recital by Peter Katin (piano) and Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) 10.45 The Immortal Works of Ketelbey 11. 0 Random Records . O Lunch Music p.m. Piano Music of Spain Sentimental Serenade The Chain (BBC) Afternoon Musicale Treasures from Opera Prince of Peace Sonq Writers on Porade Unforgotten Melodies EVENING PROGRAMME Invitation to Dining Richard Tauber Sings Piano Parade Startime For Dear Life (BBC) The Heart of the Ballet Radio Variety Tops and Pops Music of the West Close down "* AD TTS © DB Wwooo 7tooovo Ie : be Bw jcoousco oo ° b-=0

| aera an C27 PALMERSTON Nth. 940 ke. 319 m. 7. Oa.m Breakfast Session 9. 0 Dominion Weather Forecast 9. 3 The Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, conducted by Victor Reinshagen. Music by Emmerich Kalman 9.30 Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. The Song of Easter: The Story of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord based on Fourteen Spirituals and Narration from the Bible 9.45 A Chopin Cameo: Alfred Cortot (piano) 10. 0 Songs with Mario Lanza 10.45 Florian Zabach (violin) and Leroy Anderson's Orchestra 10.45 The Voices of Walter Schumann | 11. 0 Kramer and Wolmer (pianoaccordion duets) 11.15 Ballet Music: The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Ansermet La Boutique Fantasque Rossini-Respighi 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Concert Encores: Jascha Heifetz (violin) 2.20 Waltzes by Paul Lincke: The London Promenade Orchestra 2.30 The Chain (BBC) 3. 0 Highlights from Musical Comedy 3.30 Famous Serenades: Victor Young and his Singing Strings 3.50 Alec Templeton (piano) 4.10 Tyrolean Melodies: The Franz Winkler Trio 4.39 Artists of the American Concert Stage 5. 0 The Kingsway Promenade Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Black The Music of trving Berlin 5.30 For the Children EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 9 Dinner Music 6.30 Recent Releases from England 7. 0 ¢ohn Charles Thomas (baritene) 7.15 Compositions by Sidney Torch 7.20 The George Mitchell Choir 7.45 Popular Melodies from Europe: Will Giahe’s Orchastra 8. 0 For Dear Life (BBC) 9.0 Organ Interlude: Ken Griffin and Eddie Grant 9.15 Presenting Gracie Fields 9.30 Today’s the Day: Eastertide 10. 0 To Close the Day: Thirty Minutes of Quiet Music 10.30 Close down

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"The Song of Easter," a dramatisation of the Easter story in words and music, will be heard from 2ZA at 9.30 and 4ZB at 10.0 this morning. The music, provided by Fred Warine’s Pennsylvanians, consists of a selection of Negro spirituals and the narration is taken from the Holy Scriptures. ae cme mam