2YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 41, 26 April 1929, Page 14

2YA Features

ON Sunday evening the service of the Vivian Street Church of Christ will be relayed, and at its conclusion

St i LR ii i, fad i iii ied the concert by the Port Nicholson Band will be relayed from the Grand Opera House. .The band plays under the conductorship of Mr. J. J. Drew. N Monday evening a programme of varied interest will be presented. Mrs. W. Fraser Morrish, whose initial performance on April 12 was such a success, will be the soprano soloist for the evening. Her items will be "Damon," "Songs My Mother. Taught Me," and "A Little Fleet of Cloud Boats." A solo from the musical play, "The Garden of Allah," will be one of the songs to be featured by Mr. 8. E. Rodger, the well-known baritone, who

will also sing "Easter Flowers" and "If I Might Only Come to You." Miss Nora Greene (contralto) has chosen for her items the aria from "Faust," "When All Was Young,’ a number by Roger ‘Quilter entitled "June," and Schubert’s "For Music," together with Kennedy Russell’s ‘"Life’s Sunset Bar." That well-known tenor aria from Handel’s "Judas Maccabeaus," "How Vain is Man," will be one of Mr. Roy Hill’s items, his second number being "Ah! Moon of My Delight," from Lehmann’s "In a Persian Garden." Mr. Hill will also sing with Miss Nora Greene the "Barcarolle" from "The Tales of Hoffman.’ Miss THELMA WILLOUGHBY, winner of the Schubert gold medal at the last Wellington Competitions Festival, will be heard in a bracket of two pianoforte solos, which are a good example of modern music, namely, Ohasins’s "Flirtation in a Chinese Garden". and "Rush Hour in Hong-Kong." Miss Willoughby is a brilliant young pianist from the studio of Mr.-Gordon Short.

_AN instrumental item of outstanding interest on Monday evening will be Popper’s "Requiem," written for three ‘cellos and piano. This number will be rendered by Mr. G. Hllwood, Mr. Cecil Smallbone, Miss Lilla Hill and Mr. M. Dixon. LJSTENERS will no doubt be pleased to hear that arrangements have been completed for relaying brief organ recitals by Mr. H. Temple White, whose playing. was so popular last year. Mt, White’s items will be "Postlude in ,G,"! by Read, and Easthope Martin’s "Hvensong." An item which will prove to be a popular novelty will be "The Lost Chord," played as a cornet solo with organ accompaniment. Mr. W. Sneddon will be the cornet soloist. NN Tuesday the usual light popular class of programme will be given. Mr. Austin Blackie, the popular tenor, will sing Schubert’s "Serenade" and "Tt Know of Two Bright Byes," by Clutsam, Mrs. Mabel Jackson, a talented singer of popular songs, will be heard in two numbers, "Beloved" and "My Honeymoon Waltz." Mr. BH. A. Sargent will provide the humour of the programme, his items being "Because I Were Shy" and "Quick Work," the latter a Mel. B. Spurr number. At 9.80 the usual dance programme will commence. Wednesday evening-Municipal election results. ‘

ON Friday evening the Philharmonic Quartet will render a programme of vocal gems from grand opera and musical comedy. Miss Ena"™ Rapley (soprano) will sing "Musetta’s Song" (from "La Boheme"), Mr. Arthur Brady (baritone), "A Jovial Monk am I’ (from Audran’s "La Poupee") ; and Mr. Edwin Dennis, the well-known tenor solo from "La Boheme," "Thy Tiny Hand is Frozen." Miss Madge Freeman will be heard in a solo number from "The Quaker Girl," "Comte to the Ball," and in a duet from "Mercenary Mary." Another item of interest will be the quartet, "A Regular Royal Queen" from "The Gondoliers." MrVictor S. Lloyd, the popular entertaine will relate another of his Concluding the evening’s programme on Friday the third instalment of the opera "Rigoletto" will be broadcast. ATURDAY evening’s programme will be of a bright and entertaining nature. The popular Melodie Four will provide the vocal items, their numbers comprising three quartets, "Riding on a Dream Train" (by Lewis), "Lullaby" (by Brahms), and "Drifting and Dreaming." Mr. Sam Duncan (tenor) will sing "Violets" and Mr. W. W. Marshall (bass), "The Mountains of Mourne." Mr. Frank Bryant (tenor) has chosen for his item "The Joy Bird" and Mr. R. 8. Allwright "Sleepy Hollow Tune." ‘Steel guitar items will. be played by Messrs. Berthold and Bent, and Mr. Len Ashton will contribute two humorous pieces, "The Parson of Puddle" and "That Old Angora Oat."