Notes from 3YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 37, 28 March 1929, Page 15

Notes from 3YA

{ASTER Monday’s entertainment at 8YA will include an afternoon’s racing results, a very bright concert in the evening, and a relay of a boxing match. ‘The instrumentalists for the eveninks concert will be the Christchurch Municipal Band under Mr. W. MacDowell. The items to be played will be the "Washington Greys’ March, "Sunny Lands" (a fantasia), "Abide With Me" (hymn), Alford’s "Musical Switch," and Ord Hume’s fine march "Brilliant." The vocal portion of the programme will be very entertaining. There will be soprano solos by Mrs. P. S. Lawrence, "Just Like a Melody Out of the Skies" and "Girl of My Dreams." Mr. Arthur Couch, tenor will sing "I Hear You Calling Me," "The Sea Gipsy," and "Ka Mate." Jazz songs will be sung by Mrs. Harry Jackson and a humorous song, "Hurricane Hist’ry" will be given by Mr. Harry Jackson.. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson will also take part in the yokel duet "Oh! Sarah! O! ’Wnery." The evening’s "programme will continue till 11 p.m. UESDAY will not be a silent day for 8YA next week. A diversified and

popular programme will be presented, all light and entertaining. There wiil be soprano songs by Miss Mabel Haglesome. These will include two by SulliVan and one from "The Student Miss Alma Finnerty will be singing popular jazz songs. Miss Finnerty is a talented young Christchurch performer, She was engaged for St.

Patrick’s: Day concert at Timaru. A fine baritone in the person of Mr. Robson will sing "Trooper Johnuy Ludlow," "Wimmen, oh, Wimmen," and "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold." Other artists will be Mr. Bracey Wilson, who will again feature Lauder items, in which he is so good. There will also be Mr. George Titchener, humorist, and Mr. Les Croft, a novelty entertainer on musical instruments of all kinds and sizes. He is a worthy mouth-organ champion. A NEW quartet of singers, to be known as the Salon Quartet, has been formed, and will be a great delight to listeners. Four accomplished artists comprise the personnel-Miss Lilian Hanham, Miss Dulcie Mitchell, Mr. H. Blakeley, and Mr. J. Graham Young. The concerted numbers will be "I Sowed the Seeds of Love" and "Good Night, Beloved." There will be two duos, "Awake," by the ladies, and ‘The Battle Eve’ by the male voices. Miss Lilian Hanham will sing a solo from the opera "Mignon," also "Sylvelin" and "Cuckoo." Miss Dulcie Mitchell’s solos will be "Oh, Could I But Express in Song" and "In Haven." The tenor solos by Mr. Blakeley will be "On Wings of Song’,"’ "The Dear Little Shamrock," and "Willarney." Mr. +J Graham Young, now an acknowledged favourite on the air, will include in his numbers the operatic "Toreador’s Song,’.also "The Ballad Monger" and "Old Barty." HE instrumental programme for Wednesday evening will be particularly good. The principal contributors will be the Bohemian Quintet. There will also be a trio played by Miss Florence Millar (violin), Mr. Joseph Mercer (viola), and Miss Dorothy Davies (piano). Pianoforte solo will be played by Mr. Fred Page. FURTHER holiday programme will be broadeast on Thursday evening. The vocalists will be the Madame Gower Burns Grand Opera Quartet, whose items will be of a miscellaneous variety. Soprano numbers will include "Down in the Forest." The contralto (Miss Nancy Bowden) will sing, among other numbers, "By the Waters of Minnetonka."’ Tenor solos include "Eleanore" and "Come to the Fair." ‘When Drake Goes West," "Dreaming of

Homeland,’ and "The Muleteer of Malaga" will be the baritone songs. Duets will be "Soldiers and Comrades" and "The Blue Room." There will be violin solos by Miss Irene Morris, pianoforte items by Miss Merle Miller, and trios by the Studio Trio. Recitations of two distinct types will be given by Mr. W. H. Moses, "Logic and Spotted Dog" (in Australian vernacular, as told by C. J. Dennis) and "Dollars and Dimes,".a dissertation on the financial question. A splendid vocal programme has been arranged for Friday evening, the singers being Miss Frances Hamerton, Miss Mary Taylor, Mr. W. Bradshaw, and Mr. E. J. Johnson. Concerted numbers will be "Come where My Love Lies Dreaming," "The Village Blacksmith," and "Will o’ the Wisp." Soprano songs will include "I Got a Robe" (negro spiritual), contralto solos "Kashmiri Song" and "At Grendon Fair," tenor solos "Ailsa Mine’ and "The Trumpeter," baritone solos "King Charles" and "A Sergeant of the Line." The Studio Trio and the Bailey-Marston Dance Orchestra will provide the orchestral music. On Saturday evening there will be a complete two hours’ yaudeville entertiinment presented by the Revellers Concert Purty.