3YA ITEMS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 12, 7 October 1927, Page 7

3YA ITEMS

wa 2S ene ae There will be only one singer’ ‘otf SYA’s programme on Monday to assist the Christchurch Municipal Band. This will be Miss Mabel Turner (soprano), a promisitie young singer who will make her first appearance, Miss Phyllis Robinson, who is to give sketches at 8YA on Monday, is a pupil of Mr. Wm. Densem, a . well-knows Christchurch elecutionist. After an absence of some time, Mr. Sydney Gibson, with his banjolin, will appear at 8YA on Monday. This class of music seems to be popular. Mr. D. Suckling, who has a remarkably fine tenor voice, and who is one of the very favourite artists at SYA, will be singing on Wednesday. ‘‘Sally Horner’ will be one of his items, His sister, Miss Phemie Suckling, is a talented pianist and accompanies her broe ther in his sones. ‘This evening shé is also playing solos. Miss Anita Graham will sing for the first time in radio at 3YA onWednesday. i She has a very promt ising mezzo-soprano voice. Hahgood’s Instrumental Quartet will delight 8YA listeners on Wedneaday with bright revue items, r Mr. eo Hayward’s fourth talk deseriptive of the round trip in the South- ern Lakes district will be given at SYA on Wednesday. Music which will be a sheer des light to all who hear it will be played by the Christchurch Broadcasting Trio at 3YA next week. The items are worth perusing. Miss Belle Renaut, one of the best contralto singers at 8YA, will make a welcome reappearance on Thursday. Mr. Russell Sumner, always welcome on ihe radio. will be heard to advat‘tage (as ustial) in his songs at SYA om ‘Thursday. Some of the hest instrumentalists in Christchurch wil! be playing at 3YA next week, the programmes being notha STITTTLTITITTI@TTTEPLPe Tenis

able for their quality in this respect and for the fewness of the singers. Lovers of good instrumental music are to be well catered for. Miss Aileen Warren, the pianiste of the Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, wilt be heard in two solos on Thursday. She has played lLefore, so listeners will tune in. Opening the programme at 8YA oft lriday with a pianoforte solo, and _following on immediately with a violin solo, will be the somewhat unusual feat by an artist at 8YA. This will be done by Miss Hannah Packer, who, thougl appearing in radio for the first time on Friday, is a paiticularly well known musician of Christchurch. Mr. W. J. Richards, baritone, one of the Male Voice Choir soloists, will be the only singer at 3YA’s concert on Friday Cello solos of a novel nature, and based on two different types of sotigs, will be played by Mr. Harold Beck at 3YA on Friday. One will be from "I’m a travelling to the Grave" (an American Jubiiee Minstrel song), and the other will be the well known song ‘Harlequin.’ Classical and week-end"? music may be said to describe the bulk of Saturday’s programmes. The instrumental- ists will be the Christchurch Broadcast ing Trio, Mr. Robert Clarke {a great artist on the violin), Mr. A, Hodgson (baniolin), Mr. P. Skinner (banjo), and Mr. Stan Birch (mandoline)-and there will not be a solitary vocalist, save Mr. James Taurenson, who will entertain with two of lis best efforts in elocution. Ii atmosphefic conditions are good, 3YA will rebroadcast 2YA on Saturday-and will not close down at 10 ‘p.m. For twenty-five years a missionary itt Darkest Africa, in the territory through which Dr. Livingstone blazed a trail, Dr H. &. Wareham, M.B., Ch.M., now on furlough in New Zealand, has a most interesting story to tel of this region and its peoples. He is described as a particularly good speaker, and he will have a vast audience on Friday evening when he speaks from 3YA. Dr. Wareham, as his name suggests, is @ medical missionary, and he knows fife (and death) in the forests of the Tan- } ganyika regiov.