3YA Items

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 33, 1 March 1929, Page 15

3YA Items

ON Sunday afternoon 3YA will broadeast the St. David’s Day service which is to be held in the Christchurch Anglican Cathedral. The preacher will be the Very Rev. Dean of Christchurch and the organist for the occasion will be Mr. Alexander Owen. The after-church concert from the studio on Sunday evening will include items by Miss Hilda Blechynden, Mrs. BE. H. Davies and Mr. John Worgan. A very fine fine series of gramophone records ‘will also be broadcast. THE opening number by the Municipal Band on Monday evening will be Rimmer’s popular march, "Ravenswood." Another of Rimmer’s works, . a fantasia called "Le Cinque," will also be played. Other band items for this vening will be the waltz "Wcstasy," tie hymn "Nearer My God to Thee," the selection "Normanhurst," and the march "Argandab’-a fine and varied programme arranged by Mr. A. Schnack. OTHER instrumentalists to play on Monday evening will be the Studio Trio. The vocalists will be Miss Sylvia Marshall, Miss Hileen Irwin and Mr. Arthur T. Couch. Miss Irwin will sing "Caprice Viennois" (Kreisler), "La Serenata" (Pablo-Tosti) and May Brahe’s "That’s All." The songs by the other artists will all be of the popular type. Mr. Arthur T. Couch will be specially looked forward to because of the magnificent rendition which he gave to his songs (two of them in Maori) when last he sang for 8YA, on February 18. On this occasion he will sing another of his songs i Maori. RINCIPALLY operatic will be Wednesday evening’s programme, and it will be an entertainment of rare merit. One of the vocalists will be Miss Dulcie Mitchell, whose items will comprise a "Che Faro" (from "Orfeo ed Euridice"’), the well-known "When You Come Home" and "I Got a Robe" (a negro. spiritual). Miss Cicely Christian will appear again after a long absence from the microphone. Her items will be "Loraine, Loraine, Loree" and "Sing, Joyous Bird.’ Mr. Harold Prescott will sing "Ah, Moon of My Delight" (from "In a Persian Garden") and "Wnglish Rose" (from "Merrie Wngland’). Another fine singer for this evening will be Mr. ‘Fred C. Penfold, whose numbers will be a solo from "Irene" and "I Am Fate.’ The instrumentalists will be Miss Maud K. Stout and the Bohemian buintet. There will also be special

records, HPlocutionary numbers will be given by Miss Kathleen Chapple. RTHUR SOMERVELL’S charming song cycle, "Windflowers," will be presented on Thursday evening by Miss Frances Hamerton’s Melodious Four. This will be followed by a miscellaneous programme. Two vocal solos to be sung by Mr. T. D. Williams will be "Glorious Devon" and Moussorgsky’s "Song of the Flea." Two fine elocutionary numbers are to be given on Thursday evening by Mr. W. H. Moses-"The Children’s Hour" and "The Saxon and the Gael," the former by Longfellow and the latter an extract from "The Lady of the Lake," by Sir Walter Scott. Mr. W. H. Moses is a regular contributor on the elocutionary side of 3YA’s_ programmes. During the last seven years he has been successful at competitions, winning a score of prizes, including fifteen firsts. In Wellington he won the sight-reading prize and _ the New Zealand test recital. In 1924, in Christchurch, he again won the sightreading and carried off the gold medal. The prizes won by Mr. Moses are for reciting, singing, impromptu speech, and debate, Character recital (Shakespearean), humorous songs, story without words, and pronunciation. My. Moses is a member of the relieving staff of the Canterbury Education Board. "QUR MISS GIBBS," the very popular musical play, by Caryll and Moncton, will be given a radio production by the Radiolians on Friday evening. This will be a thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. Humorous elocutionary numbers will be given by Mr. James Rodger. Instrumental musie will be provided by the Studio Trio, and by the Bailey-Marston Dancé Orchestra. SPECIAL attraction on Friday evening will be a novelty turn provided by Mr. Franc. Hanalei. He is an expert in playing native instruments, and has appeared in Hawaiian items at all the leading theatres and on picture circuits in New Zealand. He will present a ten-minutes entertainment of the dreamy melodies of Hawaii, electrical hits from the land of jazz and popular song airs. SATURDAY. evening’s programme from 3YA will be pure vaudeville, two hours of unique entertainment provided by the Revellers Concert Party.