3YA Features

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

3YA Features

ON Sunday afternoon a portion of 8YA’s session will consist of an organ recital by Mr. T. Vernon Griffiths, M.A., Mus.Bac., Cantab., organist at St. Michael’s Anglican Church. In the evening the service from _ this church will be broadcast. The preacaer will be the Rev. Chas. Perry. Derry’s Military Band, under the baton of Mr. J. Scott, the new conductor, will appear again on Monday evening. Among the many popular pieces to be played will be Seotti and Irish airs. Two marches will be included and "Ramona" will be played.

AKING his first appearance in radio on Monday evening will be Mr. Simon MacDonald, a well-known reciter, especially of Scottish compositions. One of his items will be ‘"Don‘ald MacLeod," by an anonymous «writer, first published by Charles Dickens when he was editor of the magazine "All the Year Round." "Why Doherty Died," the work of the Australian writer, Spencer, will be Mr. MaceDonald’s second item. Popular vocalists will sing for 3YA on Monday. Miss Hilda Wutt will be heard in "The Blackbird’s Song," Miss Mary Taylor in "Danny Boy," Mr. T. G. Rogers in "Myfanwy,"’ and Mr. J. Francis Jones in "’Neath the Rolling Tide,’ as well as in other solos and duets. "The Nightingale of Lincoln’s Inn" and "he Toreador" will be sung by Mr. A. G, Thompson on Wednesday during the course of the miscellaneous programme to be presented that evening. Miss Nellie Lowe will sing "Fair House of Joy" and "Annie Laurie" (the latter being Liza Lehmann’s setting). Two other popular singers on Wednesday evening will be Mrs. G. L. Bull (mezzo-soprano), and Mr. Geo. Fawcett (tenor). To one of Mrs. Bull’s solos Miss Irene Morris will play a violin obbligato. , Mr. Harry Instone, humorous. reciter, has another of his own compositions for Wednesday evening. He has entitled it "The Blunderer." Other of his pieces will be "Antonio Beppo" (in Italian dialect), and "The Groom’s Story," by Conan Doyle. Quite a number of specially chosen gramophone records will be electrically reproduced during Wednesday evening’s entertainment. HE entertainment to be presented on Thursday evening will be of a miscellaneous character. The voealists will be Madame Gower-Burns. Mrs. Ann Harper, Mr. Harold Prescott, and Mr. Clive Hindle. The vocal items will comprise solos, duets, and quartets. Recitations will be given by Miss Mavis Mitchie. Included among the records to be electrically reproduced on Thursday evening will be "The Death of Don Quixote," as sung by Chaliapin, Massenet, the composer, has treated in a very graphic manner the death of the famous visionary who never took seriously anything else in life. "THE Little Sunbonnet," a pretty song cycle by Lohr, will be sung by the Melodious Four on Friday evening. Supporting the song cycle will be a miscellaneous programme of a very entertaining nature. Hlocutionary items to be given by Mr. J. J. Mewellyn will be "The New Food’ (by Stephen Leacock), and "The SceneShifter’s Story."

The gramophone records to be broadcast’ on Friday evening will include "London and Daventry Calling." On Saturday evening 3YA will rebroadcast the whole evening’s programme at 2YA.,