Notes from 3YA

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

Notes from 3YA

‘UCH variety marks the programme "arranged for Monday evening. Mr. ‘@harles Lawrence will be heard in some of his songs at the piano, and a quarter of an hour of merriment can be expected, Songs of a different _ type will be sung by Miss Frances: Hamerton and Mr. Russel Sumner, these being of a classical nature. Other vocal items, quartets, will be from . electrically reproduced gramophone records. The main instrumental music of. the evening will be provided by the Christchurch Municipal Band and the Studio Trio.

LIGHT operatic and miscellaneous programme will be presented on Wednesday evening. Solos, duets and quartets will be sung by the Dulcet Quartet, their concerted numbers including works by Pinsuti, Faning and Watson. The instrumental items for the evening will be contributed by the Studio Trio and Miss Aileen Watrren. The gramophone records to be produced will include two vocal medleys, "Hit the Deck," by the London Hippodrome chorus, and instrumental numbers. HE song cycle, "The Daisy Chain," will be sung by the Madame Gower Burns Grand Opera Quartet on Thursday evening. This song cycle comprises twelve songs of childhood. The words of the songs are by Alma-Ta-dema, R. L. Stevenson, Norman Gale, W. B. Rands and others, the music being composed by Liza Lehmann. The production for radio on Thursday evening will be complete with orchestral accompaniment. ‘THE supporting programme will be of a miscellaneous type, the instrumentalists introduced being Mr. 8. KH. Munday (clarinet) and Mr. W. Hay (flute). Miss Dorothy Jenkin will contribute elocutionary items Outstanding among the records will be the Anacreon overture by Mengelberg’s Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Royal Serbian Tambouritza Orchestra will play the Kossovo Waltz. HE voeal artists who will be contributing to Friday’s programme of the popular type will pe Miss Alice Chapman, Miss Belle Renaut, Mr. T. D. Williams, Mr. Basil Johnson (singer of humorous songs), Miss Winifred Smith (elocutionist), and Messrs. L. Cox and G. Wilson (ukulele and banjolin). Several orchestral items will be presented by means of gramophone records, and further instrumental music will be contributed by the Studio Trio. On Saturday evening 38YA will rebroadeast 2Y¥A.