Light Music Programmes
}HEN nights draw in and chilblains prick warmly on the toes, then winter is i-cumen in and no mistake. Time then, for consolation where it is to be found and that, for many listeners, could be in relaxing to some of the NZBS programmes of light music which will be going the rounds of YA and YZ Stations during the next three months. Starting next week, on Monday, May 7, William Austin /will be dispensing coffee as before in a further series of Won’t You Come In? Bill has been searching deeper into the recesses of his record library for material for his new. programmes, and members of the Coffee Club who like a mixture of old and’ new, music and spoken word, the familiar and the off-the-beaten track in records should be happy listening on Monday nights. Also returning to the microphone is a popular combination of singers and
Wurlitzer organ, the Three’s. Company team of Jean McPherson, John Hoskins and Finlay Robb at the organ. They present the sweet and, singable in popular music that goes well with firelight and the rain on
e roof. ine Gil Dech Trio, of Dunedin, designed six programmes for the middlebrow, and from Dunedin. also come six programmes by the vocal duettists Dorothy Cayford and Roma Abotomey. They are to sing some of the lighter music of Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Franck, the modern English composers and one operatic programme. Also from the South, from Invercargill, but strangely enough with the Irish, not the Scots in mind, comes a series of four programmes by Maurice Tansley (tenor), with Jack Thompson at the piano,
Something unusual in folk music will be two programmes of Music from Iceland. These will be introduced by Keith Kitchin, who recently visited the island and brought back these recordings. By courtesy of the Belgian Legation, a series of Belgian folk song recordings has also been made available to the NZBS. From 4YA on Thursday nights, the Christchurch Durham Street Methodist Choir is broadcasting a group of nrosrammes of favourite hymns and anthems which will later be heard from other YA and YZ _ stations,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 7
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356Light Music Programmes New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 7
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