Island Bay Methodist Choir for 2YA.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 13, 12 October 1928, Unnumbered Page

Island Bay Methodist Choir for 2YA.

HOSE who heard the recent Choirs Contest at the Wellington Town Hall will be glad to learn that the winners of the championship on that occasion (the Island Bay Methodist Choir) are to be heard from 2YA on the evening of Sunday, October 14. This fine chorus possesses splendid balance and blend, and will muster 30 voices. Both test selections-"The Everlasting Strength" (a stirring anthem by Cuthbert Harris), and Smart’s well-known hymn, "Hark, Hark, My Soul," are on the programme, and other choir numbers are "Across the Bar" (a beautiful setting by Sampson), and Coleridge-Taylor’s "Vikinge’s Song." Miss Mary Lennie, L.T.C.L., one of Wellington’s most promising pianists, will play a bracket of solos,by Schumann, and Mr. Wilbur Davies’ fine baritone will be particularly suited in "The Wheel-Tapper’s Song." "When Evening’s Twilight," one of Hatton’s most charming part songs, will be sung as a quartet, and Miss Hlisie Kay (soprano) will give "Thanks Be To God." Mr. R. H. Dellow (well-known to 2YA listeners) is to sinz (with the choir) a selection from Gaul’s beautiful cantata, "The Holy City."