1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 11, 28 September 1928, Page 14

1YA Features

HE concert by the Auckland Municipal Band on Wednesday evening will be broadcast by 1YA, following which there will be a brief studio concert. The contributing artists will be Miss C. Ormiston and Mr. 8S. Pritchard. There will also be some choice gramophone records, which will include items by M. J. Gunsky, a famous whispering tenor. _ "The Song of the Bow,’ which will be sung by Mr. D. Black on Thursday evening, is an old marching song of the English archers who fought in the French war at the time of Cressy and Poictiers. Another of Mr. Black’s songs will be "Turn Ye to Me." A fantasy in one act, "Hearts to Mend," will be performed by Mrs. Zoe Bartley-Baxter and her party of players on Thursday evening. This item will occupy some twenty minutes, and should be one of the most outstanding features of the evening. "HE vocal portion of (Thursday’s musical programme is in the hands of the Clarion Quartet-Miss Alma MceGruer, Miss B. Smyth, Mr. J. Simpson, and Mr. D. Black-a very popular combination. Instrumental items will be contributed by the Auckland Trio and by electrically reproduced records. In- eluded among the latter will be ‘"London and Daventry Calling," a band novelty by the Savoy Orpheans.

"4 Pack -of Cards" and a humorous sketch, "The Collaborateurs," will be given by Mr. J. F. Montague on Friday evening. A SPLENDID programme has been arranged for Friday evening, the vocalists who are contributing to the musical portion of the programme being the St. Andrew’s Quartet. On this night, too, the orchestra is appearing again. There will also be a number of gramophone records. To the week-end programme arranged for Saturday evening, Mr. Fred Barker will contribute a number of elocutionary items in which humour will predominate. The vocalists will be Mr. L. Kernot (bass) and Mr. H. Warpurton (baritone). Instrumental musie will be supplied by the Auckland Trio, and by some electrically reproduced gramophone records, these latter comprising Hawaiian music, items by Wurlitzer organ, and orchestral novelties. A dance music session will follow Till 11 p.m.