Notes from 3YA

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

Notes from 3YA

HE local artists who will contribute to the afterchurch concert on Sunday evening will be Miss Mavis

Spiller (mezzo-soprano), Miss Nellie Lowe (contralto), and Mr. A. G, Thompson. A very choice programme has been arranged. Special among the records will be one by Hnrico Caruso, "Agnus Dei," and the whole of the "Peer Gynt" Suite. A Woolston Band concert, items by the Studio Trio, with vocal talent comprising Miss Wileen Grennell, Mrs. BH. H. Davies, Mr. Robert W. Rofe, Mr. Jock Lockhart, and Mr. J. J. Mewellyn will be broadcast on Monday evening. It will be one of the best entertainments of the week. The

band will present a varied programme. In view of the' nearness of the contest, this excellent combination is at present playing in its best form. In addition to items by the band there will be a cornet duet and solo, The band selections will include the marches, "Brigade of the Guards" and "Boulder City,’ the overture, ‘"Zauberflote" (Mozart), and a waltz, "Casino Tanze." Another item will be "Annie Laurie," for which the members of the band will sing the refrain. The cornet duet, "Yitlarks," will be played by Bandsmen Annand and Dunn. Another cornet solo, "O Dry Those Tears," wi be contributed by Bandsman R. Ohlsen. "Danny Boy," the lovely. old Irish air, probably a tender love song of faroff days, and known variously as "Londonderry Air’ and "Farewell to Cul chullan," will be one of the songs to be sung by Mrs. E. H. Davies on Monday evening. Others will be "Memories of Eventide" and "Loch Lomond and You." Miss Eileen Grennell, the brilliant young soprano, who has been heard previously from 3YA, will sing "Spring’s Awakening," "Beyond the Dawn" (both by Sanderson) and Irving Berlin’s -_ Song is Ended." ; Mr. Robert W. Rote, who makes his debut in radio broadcasting on Monday evening is a member of the Cathedral Choir. His fine bass-baritone voice will be heard in three Ptypes of songs, "The Blue Dragoons, "My Old Shako,’ and "Glorious Devon." With Mr. Flewellyn and Mr. Jock Lockhart on the programme, much humour can be expected on Monday night.

A MISCELLANEOUS programme will be presented on Wednesday evening, the items comprising popular, classical, and operatic numbers. The vocalists will be the Dulcet Quartet. Miss Hilda Hutt will sing "I Hear a Thrush at Hve"’ and "The Valley of Laughter. Miss Nellie Lowe’s numbers will be "Like te. the Damask Rose" and "When the House is Asleep." Tenor solos by Mr. ™. G. Rogers will be’ Verdi’s "When a Charmer" and Sullivan’s "The Sailor’s Grave." Mr. A. G. Thompson (baritone) will sing "Father O’Flynn" and Gaisberg’s "Volga Boat Song." Concerted vocal numbers will be "Reverie’igus and "Break, Break, Break." AS a so prano and contralto duet, "Arise O Sun" will be sung.

The Studio Orchestra, under the baton of Mr. Harold Beck, will eontribute to Wednesday’s programme, among their items being the always popular "Light Cavalry" by Suppe. Other orchestral numbers to be given per medium of records, will be a selection from "Maritana" and Ketelbey’s "Sanctuary of the Heart." Pianoforte solos will be played by that accomplished artist, Miss Bessie Pollard. "Some Museum Meteorites" will be the subject of an astronomical talk by

} same gentleman will also contribute further to the evening's progtamme with a retailing of some old history in "Serious Trouble Over Nosh’s Ark." HE Little Sunbonnet," a preity and charming. song cyclé by Herman Lohr,’ will be presented by Miss Frances Hamerton’s Melodious Four on Thursday evening. Full instrumental accompaniment will be providea by the Studio Trio, The remainder of the programme will consist of items of a miscellaneous nature. The composers are practically all modern Hnglish. The vocalists of the quartet will all proyide solos. locutionary numbers will be given by Miss ‘Winifred. Smith. Instrumental music will ‘be provided by the Studio Trio.’ Among the records to be reproduced will be one of exceptional interest, a harpsichord selo played by Ignaz Friedman. The station will be on the air at 2.30 .,on Thursday in order to broadcast the opening: ceremony in eonnection with the electrification of the Lyttelton tunnel. ‘HERE Will be considerable. variety in Friday's programme. The vocalists will be the Valencia Quartet, who will present ‘vocal items of a miscellaneous nature. There. will also be the Happy Duo (in duets at the piano with ukulele), the Studio Trio, Mr. Leslie Croft, who will entertain with all manner of instrumental. and variety turns, and Mr, George Titchener, humorist. Worthy of special mention among the songs are the quartets, . The solos will include "I Dreamt that I Dwelt," to be sung by Miss Renetta Rings, "The Hills of Donegal," and "Hush-a-Bye Birdie" by Miss Mary ‘Taylor.: Mr. W. Bradshaw will sing "Alice Where Art Thou" and "Mary of Argyle." That fine bass, Mr. F. A. Millar,. will sing "The King’s’ Highway".and "In Cellar Cool." "The Happy Duo,": who are to entertain with the aid of piano and ukulele, are Misses Dorothy ‘and Edna Johnson, two well-known performers at 8YA. Both are excellent radio vocalists, and they present the brightest and latest popular songs. On Saturday night 3YA will rebroadeast 2YA.