3YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 43, 10 May 1929, Page 15

3YA Features

HE religious service broadcast on Sunday evening will be relayed from the Church of Christ, Moorhouse Avenue, the preacher being Pastor J. Crawford. After the church service there will be a broadeast from the studio, the first portion of the entertainment comfpriging a gramophone lecture-recital by Mr, Reg. Lund. Then will follow a concert provided by Miss Myrtle Towse (mezzo-soprano), Mrs. McKenzie Muirson (contralto), Mr. Bradleigh Crowhurst (tenor). Mr. Bernard Rennell (baritone) and the Studio Trio. Mr. E. J. Bell will give his fortnightly Book Review on Monday evening. ’ A NEW singer for 3YA on Monday evening will be Mr. W. B. Brittenden, baritone. Myr. Brittenden is a teacher of singing. He has been .very successful at competitions and he toured with the Sistine Choir as an extra yocalist when the choir visited New Zealand some years ago. Mr. Brittenden has a large repertoire of songs and will be a distinct acquisition to the voll of 3YA ‘artists,

Other vocalists for Monday evening will be Mrs. Bessie Stewart (mezzosoprano) and Madame Hva Litchfield (contralto). There will be two bumorous recitations by Mr. Ronald Foster. r [HE programme to be given by the . Municipal Band, under Mr. W. MeDoweli, the conductor,. will comprise two marches, "Brilliant" . and "Victoria," a trombone novelty, "Sliding

Jim," a selection "Knight Drrant," a selection from "Rose Marie" and a foxtrot "That’s Her Now." Instrumental items will also be played by the Studio Trio. ON Wednesday evening the fourth and last instalment of the great opera, "Rigoletto," will be presented. This is a very dramatic section and the story will be again told by Mr. W. H. Dixon, Professor of Singing. Q* Wednesday evening also the Christchurch United Banjo Band under Mr. Louis W. Bloy will make its first radio appearance, providing 20 minutes of melody, comprising. a march, Irish airs, plantation songs and medleys. The vocalists for the evening will be Miss Mary Taylor and Mr. T. G. Rogers. There will be instrumental music by the Bohemian Quintet. (CLASSICAL and operatic numbers will be included in Thursday evening’s programme. Miss Merle Miller will sing "Musetta’s Song" (from "La Boheme," "At Night" and "After a Dream." Miss Hileen Grennell will sing the "Waltz Song" (from "Tom Jones"), "Dream Boat" and "Daffodil Time." Mr. Harold Prescott will sing "Once Again" and "A Song of Thanksgiving." There will be a duet by Miss Merle: Miller and My, Prescott. "Mr. Fred C. Penfold will sing "I Would I were a King" and "To-morrow." "The Prison Trio" (from "Faust’’) will be sung by Miss Miller, Messrs. Prescott and Penfold, There will be ’cello solos by Mr, Harold Beck and selections by the Studio Trio. N=®X2 week the Beckenham Male Quartet will appear on Friday evening, when a popular programme. including dance numbers, will be presented. The quartet numbers will be

a "Where My Caravan Has Rested," "’Cause I’ve Nothing Else to Do," "Lullaby," "Every Rustling Tree" and "Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son." There will also be solos and a duet. VERY interesting personality will appear on Friday evenings programme in the person of Mr. Albert Bland Holt, Jnv., a nephew of the great Bland Holt. Mr. Albert Bland Holt is on a visit to Christchurch, and he will be heard from 8YA in elocutionary items. On Saturday evening 3YA will rebroadcast 2YA.