1YA Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 33, 1 March 1929, Page 14

1YA Notes

DIVINE service for Sunday evening will be broadcast from St. Mary’s Cathedral, Canon Pervical James being the preacher, and Mr. Edgar Randall the organist. Following the church service a programme will be broadcast from the studio, an outstanding item of which will be the presentation by the Bohemian Trio of a selection of negro spirituals. These plantation songs, or spirituals, were the spontaneous outbursts of religious fervour among the American negroes, and were the negroes’ own interpretation of the Scripture as preached to them by their own religious leaders. Appearing for the first time from 1YA will be Mrs. Victor. Salek, whose contralto numbers will include "Abide With Me" (Liddie), and "Ships of Aready" (Head). Bass solos to be given by Mr. Arthur Colledge include " ’Tis Jolly to Hunt" (Bennett), and "Within the Sacred Portals" (Mozart). A number of instrumental gramophone selections wil] be introduced, including "Schubertiana" (arranged Finck). This was recorded in commemoration of Schubert’s centenary, and the fine arrangement will introduce most of the well-known compositions, such as "The Erl King," "Rosamund Ballet Music," and "Over ture," "March Militaire," ‘Unfinished Symphony," and "Serenade." H41F an hour of "Chu Chin Chow" will be the feature of 1YA’s _ programme on Tuesday evening. The execerpts from this phenomenally | successful stage attraction will be produced under the direction of Madame Irene Ainsley, the cast comprising Miss Marjorie Fair, Miss Airini Rogers, Mr. Leo O’Malley, and Mr. Arthur Ripley. All the principal solos and choruses will be sung. HERD will be an excellent miscel- ‘"" .Janeous. programme supporting "Chu Chin Chow." Miss Marjorie Fair will sing "Two Bird Songs" (by Lehmann), and Miss Rogers will sing Rashbadi’s "Trees." A tenor solo by Mr. Ripley will be "My Dear," and "Queen of the Darth" will be sung by Mr. Leo O’Malley, baritone. Instrumental music will be provided by the Studio Trio, and there will be relays from the Majestic Theatre, where the

orchestra is under the baton of Mr. Whiteford Waugh. Miss Gladys Gamman, the well-known Auckland elocutioniste, will give three fine numbers on Tuesday evening: "A Gentleman of France,’ "The Lesson of the Watermill," and "The Hindoo’s Paradise." N excellent band concert will be heard from 1YA on Wednesday evening. Adjutant Pace, who has recently arrived from Australia, has arranged a fine programme for his men, the Salvation Army Congress Hall Band. The vocalists for the evening will be the Lyric Quartet (male voices) and Miss Joy Taylor. Concerted numbers will be "Come Back to Erin," the humorous "Mosquitoes," and _ Sulliyan’s "The Long Day Closes." A duet by Messrs. Richards and Thomas will be "Be Mine the Delight." Mr. A. Ripley will sing the tenor solo "Who Knows." There will be a humorous interlude by Mr. Alan McElwain. Among Miss Taylor’s numbers will be two operatic solos, "Softly Awakes" and "Flower Song." Miss Ivy Taylor is a mezzo-soprano. She has not been heard over the air since the early days of broadcasting in Wellington. Since then she has been absent from New Zealand, and during her long sojourn in Sydney she has broadcast from Australian stations. (THERE will be two one-act comedies, comprising in all twenty-seven minutes of humour, on Thursday evening. The comedies are called "The Lost Silk Hat" and "An Island Romance." They will be presented by "The Strollers," consisting of four accomplished radio performers. Two quartets to be sung by the Olympians will be "Good Evening" and "Sleepy Hollow Tune." Miss Dorothy Youd will sing "Pierrot at the Dance," and Miss Martha Williamson will sing "Rose in the Bud." Mr. Lambert Haryey’s tenor solo will be Ronald’s "Down in the Forest." Mr. Geoffrey Colledge will sing "The Handyman" and "Invictus." Selections by the Studio Orchestra will be "Musical Jigsaw," "Schumann’s Songs" (a song suite arranged by Friml), and Lehar’s "Count of Luxembourg. N interesting feature of Friday evening’s programme will be the first of a series of "Half Hours with the Great Composers." On this oc-

easion Henry Purcell will provide the theme for Mrs. Daisy Basham and Mr. William Gemmell. Other yocalists for the evening will be Miss Margaret Cameron (who will sing "Villanelle"), Miss Phyllis Darling ("War Across the Desert Sands" and "Sacrament"’), and Mr. Arthur Colledge (whose. numbers will be "Old Barty’ and "Rolling in Foaming Billows’). There will be two vocal duets. Miss Mollie Wright (cello) and the Auckland Trio will provide some of the instrumental music, being supplemented by special records. Mr. Gemmell needs little introduction to 1YA listeners. He has also sung on many a concert platform throughout New Zealand. He has appeared as soloist with the Royal Auckland Choir, Royal Apollo Club, assisted the Caroline Bay Association, Dunedin Philharmonic Society, and has been conductor of the Beresford Street Congregational Church Choir for many years. (CONTRIBUTING to the vaudeville programme on Saturday evening will be the popular vocal trio, the Snappy Three, singing the latest hits. The vocal and instrumental duo, the Bohemians, will also present some of the latest popular airs. Humour will be provided by Mr. T. T. Garland, and u very bright programme will be played by the Studio Orchestra.