3YA Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 32, 22 February 1929, Page 15

3YA Notes

CONTINUING his ‘instructive physi- ’ eal culture talks, Mr. Charles Buckett will on Monday at 7.30 speak on "Deep Breathing.*

The programme for Monday even-ing-Band Night at 3YA-will be of a very popular type. Mr. Harold Prescott, who has just concluded a very successful tour of the south, where he has been engaged by various musieal societies and everywhere met with enthusiastic receptions, will be singing. His songs will be "Lolita," "Mary," and "Annie Laurie." Miss Alice Chapman, a young soprano who has been very successful in competitions, will sing four songs, one of which will be the piquant "If No One Ever Marries Me." Miss Edna Johnson, who is well known as a member of the Happy Duo and Joyous Trio, will be heard in popular songs. She has a fine contralto voice which she will use to advantage in "If You Were the Opening Rose," "The Blue Room," and "I Love a Little Cottage." Mr. George Titchener’s humorous items will be "Baby Bill" and "The Modest Curate." THE instrumentalists for Monday >. evening will be Derry’s Military Band under Mr. J. M. Scott. In a varied programme will be a_ bell intermezzo, "Bells o’ Somerset," "A Cavalry Charge" (descriptive fantasia), and "The Jolly Blacksmith," a vocal polka for which the bandsmen will sing the refrain. MISCELLANEOUS popular programme has been arranged for Wednesday. The vocalists will be the Dulcet Quartet, and the Studio Orechestra under Mr. Harold Beck will be playing. "The Old Folks at Home" and "Home, Sweet Home," will be sung as concerted numbers. One of Miss Hilda Hutt’s solos will be Kahn’s "Ave Maria." "Buy My Strawberries," one of the songs of Old London, will be sung by Miss Nellie Lowe. Mr. T. G. Rogers will sing "To Daisies" (Quilter) and Tchaikowsky’s "Serenade." Mr. A. G. Thompson will sing "An Episode," "I Have a Garden Fair," and "Over the Desert." Elocutionary numbers are to be given by Miss Mavis Ritchie. The first of a series of talks on Russian furs will be given by Miss B. Tossman on Thursday evening. On Thursday evening 8YA will rebroadcast 2YA. Two pianoforte solos to be given by Miss Dorothy Davies on Thursday evening are worthy of special mention. She is a brilliant pianiste. The numbers to be played are a rhapsody and an intermezzo by Brahms. The Welsh concert on Friday evening will open with a lecture by Sir Walford Davies entitled "Tunes Built in Wales." Sir Walford, himself Welsh, is credited with being an ideal radio personality, so the reproduced recording of his voice is certain to broadcast well. Following on Sir Walford Davies’s lecture, "Land of Our Fathers" will be sung by the Grand Opera Quartet, with Mr. Ernest Rogers as soloist. Another Welshman, Mr. J. Filer, will sing in -his national tongue "Homeward," and will be soloist for the quartet numbers "God Bless the Prince of Wales" and "St. David’s Day." Madame Gower Burns and Mrs. Ann Harper will sing Welsh airs. Welsh tunes will be played by Miss Irene Morris (violin), Miss Bessie Pollard (pianiste), and by the Studio Trio. GATURDAY evening’s programme from 8YA will be of a varied nature in keeping with a Saturday evening entertainment. The Valencia Quartet will be the vocalists. Miss Renetta Rings will sing Rimsky-Korsakoff’s

beautiful "Song of India™ and a bracket of two numbers by Phillips. Miss Mary Taylor’s items will be "The House of Happiness," "Keep on Hopin" and Bemberg’s "Hindoo Song." Mr. W. Bradshaw will sing an operatic number, "Lend Me Your Aid" (from Irene") and also "The Pilgrim’ of Love." Two very exacting solos have been chosen by Mr. F. A. Millar, Schubert’s "The Wanderer" and Gounod’s "Vulcan’s Song." An entertainer new to Christchurch will appear at 3YA on Saturday evening, in the person of Miss Madge Yates. She is well known in Dunedin as one of the leading teachers of elocution and has now come to reside in Christchurch. Her numbers for tomorrow evening will be a musical monologue, "Admiral’s Orders," and a humorous recital, "Cheering up "Maria."