Notes from 1YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 30, 8 February 1929, Unnumbered Page

Notes from 1YA

HE principal vocalists for the Sunday evening concert which will be broadcast after the relay of the service from St. David’s Church (where the preacher will be the Rev. D. ©. Herron, M.A.) will be the Hazel-Suther-land Duo. lA SPLENDID operatic programme has been arranged for Tuesday evening, which will mark the welcome reappearance before the microphone of the brilliant young Auckland tenor, Mr. Birrell O’Malley, who will sing operatic arias from "Faust"? (Gounod) and "Rigoletto" (Verdi). The proramme will be further strengthened with operatic selections to be rendered py Miss Madge Clague (contralto), latedy arrived from Sydney, and Mr. Walter Brough (baritone). . Dlocutionary items to be performed by Miss Gladys Gamman include "The, Last Token" (Haton) and "Old Pierrot" (by Levey). Irehestral selections will be played by he Studio Orchestra, while Mr. Cyril owsey will be heard in a piano solo, PRondo," by Field. Mr. A. B. Chapi, M.A., will again speak on the ‘Maori," the subject for this evening Peing "His Music." ON Wednesday evening the Auckland . Artillery Band will again per@#orm from 1YA after a long absence. mers will remember with pleasure the splendid programmes broadcast last fear from this station, and the reapPearance of the band before the microhone will be hailed with delight by hll lovers of band music. The band be under the baton of Mr. Wynne Smith, and the selections to be renGered include "Arcadians" (Monkton), "The Bohemian Girl’ (Balfe), "Smithy in the Wood" (Bidgood), and "Ramona" (Wayne). Assisting the band will be the ever-popular Clarion Quartet, their items including quartets, duets and solos.

WHOSE popular vocalists, The | Olympians, will perform the major portion of Friday evening’s programme, in contributing a splendid variety of quartets and solos. They will be assisted by Miss Maisie Carte-Lloyd, the wellknown elocutionist, who will include among her items "The Baljad of Splendid Silence" and ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells." Instru- « mental selections will be played by the Studio Orehestra, including "The Coppelia Ballet Suite’ and selections from "Lilac Time," while a number of selected gramophone records will also be introced. A SPLENDID variety programme has been arranged for Saturday evening, including humorous selections from Mr. F. W. Barker, who will contribute Mel. B. Spurr’s laughable "After the Ball." Ingall’s Hawaiian Orghestra will play popular music and Hawaiian airs. Miss Hilda Stanseld, a young contralto of outstandability, will make her initial bow fore the mike this evening, and her eiforta on the air will be looked for-

ward to by all listeners. On the instrument side of the programme will appear Miss Molly Wright (’cellist) and the Auckland Trio, while the concluding portion of the programme will be given over to a selected programme of dance music.