Notes from 4YA

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

Notes from 4YA

ON Sunday evening, February 10, 4YA will relay’ the evening service from the Central Mission, Octa-

oe wits [MAST i hig . Walker, and the organist Mr, CO, Ay Martin. This will be followed by Wi recital of selected gramophone iteni from the studio. : O. HENRY holds a high phaed@ amongst short story writers; and his pictures of American life are always entertaining, with an unexpected climax, On Tuesday, February 12, two of these stories, "The Power of the Press" and "A Rubberneck Story," will be told by Mr. Clarence Paine. Other artists are Miss Mary Pratt, a leading contralto of Dunedin, Miss Vanda Duncan (mezzo), Mr. Norman G. Lennon (bass), and Mr. R. A. Mitchell (tenor), who will present a budget of ‘well-known songs, A VARIED and popular programmé will be presented on Wednesday evening. The mezzo-soprano solos to be sung by Miss Molly Vickers will be "Coo" (from "The Country Giri*}, "Wandering" and "Dedication." Miss Dorothy Skinner will sing Brahms’s famous "Sapphic Ode," Mendelssohirés "Oh Rest in the Lord" and "My Task? Tenor and bass solos will be sung by, Mr. J. Swan and Mr. Neil Black re spectively. There will also appéat Mr. Hugh Dalziel, playing the marime baphone, and Mr. Ted Heaney, play ing the piano-accordion. Mrs. Ernest Drake will play pianoforte solos. AXTHUR SOMERVELL is one of England’s foremost composers, and he certainly has given of his best in the song cycle "Wind Flowers." ‘This work is written round some very beau tiful poems, and is full of delightful harmonies. The cycle will be given by the 4YA Harmonists on Friday, February 15, and in addition the am tists will sing solo numbers. The 4YA Broadcasting Trio will again be heard in instrumental trios and solos, and Miss Joyce Houls, a talented young elocutioniste will be heard iz "ero of Commune," by Browning, amd in a scene from "Twelfth Night." arene J BF N the concert platform on Saturda¥ evening to precede the dance mt sic session (changed from Friday night) will appear Miss Thelma Black» man in -a number of light populait songs, Mr. J. A. Paterson, a very good Scottish comedian, and Miss Sheila Neilson and Mr. J. B. McConnell, wihé will give comedy sketches.