2YA Items

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 44, 17 May 1929, Page 14

2YA Items

HE service to be conducted in the Taranaki Street Methodist Church by the Rey. T. R. Richards will be broadcast on Sunday evening. YFollowing the church broadeast the concert to be given by the Wellington Municipal Band in His Majesty’s Theatre will be relayed. ON Monday evening a programme of outstanding merit will be presented. The artists will be Mr. Barry Coney, of Auckland (baritone), Miss Isabel Cooper (soprano), Miss Evelyn Robinson (contralto), Mr. Hrie Rishworth (tenor), and Mr. Cedric Gardiner (elocutionist). ME. BARRY CONEY, who will sing the operatic aria, "O Thou Palermo," and Alfred Hill’s "Waiata Maori," is well-known throughout New Zealand, and especially to lsteners-in to 1YA. Miss Evelyn Robinson, a rising young contralto, has chosen for her items Kjerulf’s "Last Night," "Five Byes," and "There’s a Big Lot of Sunshine." Two numbers from Schubert’s Song Cycle "The Mill," namely, "Wandering" and "Whither," together with Roger Quilter’s "Drink to me only with Thine Byes" and Reynold’s "Ah, how delightful the Morning," will be sung by Mr. Erie Rishworth. The soprano soloist, Miss Isabel Cooper, will delight listeners with Tosti’s popular "Serenata," and two: charming little songs by Drummond, "L’Envoi"’ and "If I Lost the Stars." On the instrumental side of the programme an outstanding item will be a duo for two pianos, played by Messrs. Gordon Short and Mat, Dixon, The item they have chosen will be a waltz by Arensky. Special interest will attach to the elocutionary numbers on Monday evening. Mr. Cedric Gardiner will recite recent 2YA Poetry Competition, "Odysseus," by Mr. A. R. D. Fairburn, of Auckland, and also the third prize humorous poems, "Mr. and Mrs. White Hold Hands," by Miss Betty Kerr, of Timaru. "TUESDAY evening’s programme will be of a bright popular nature. The contributing artists will include Mr. B. W. Robbins (tenor), the "Co-Optim-ists" (entertainers), and Messrs. Hdward Silver and Billy Hart (singers of popular songs). Mr. W. McLean, first violinist of the 2YA Orchestra, will, by request, play "Good-bye" by Tosti, and "Schon Rosmarin," bk Kreisler.

(ON Thursday evening the Wellington City Salvation Army Band, under the conductorship of Mr. Scotney, will, with the assistance of the Lyric Quartet, Miss Monica Malfroy (mezzo0-so-prano), and Mr. BE. A. Sargent (entertainer at the piano), provide an interesting and varied programme. The bands items will include the "Red Shidgi" march (which item was played at the opening of 2YA by the same band when under the conductorship of the composer, Adjutant Goffin), the selection "Love’s Manifestation," meditation "Wareham," and a_ nationpl selection entitled "Scotland," ‘irranged by the conductor of the band. Bandsman B. J. Dutton will play as a cornet solo the well-known ballad "The Song that Reached my Heart." Concerted numbers by the Lyri¢ Quartet will be "Spin, Spin," "Mammy’s Little Sunny Boy," and "AlohaAe." Mr. Charles Williams (tenor) will sing "The Desert Queen," by HartwellgJones, and Mr. W. Binet Brown (bass) "When the King Went Forth to War." Mr. Will Goudie (baritone) will sing several numbers from his repertoire, and Messrs. Will Goudie and W. Binet Brown will sing the duet "Tell her I love her so." A charming . little ballad by John Ireland, "If there were Dreams to Sell," together with "Trees," ‘by Rasbach, and Hermann Lohr’s "Just in the Hush Before th Dawn," comprise the solos to be sung* by Miss Monica Malfroy (mezzo soprano). Mr. ®. A. Sargent, the popular entertainer at the piano, will provide the humour of the evening. On Thursday evening Mr. Barry Coney will make his second appearance at 2YA. He will sing "Adelina" (by O’Connor Morris) and "The Carpet" (by Sanderson). HB vocal items on Friday evening will be given by members of the Philharmonic Quartet. The items comprise the following:-"Under the Deodar" (from the "Country. Girl’), "Toreador’s Song’ (from "Carmen"), . contralto solo, "My Partners’ ("Country Girl’), two duet numbers, "Awake" (by Pelissier) and "My Task" (by Ashford. There will also be, quartet number "The Sea Hath its Pearls" (Pinsuiti).’ Mr. Edwin Dennis (tenpr) will sing "Onaway, Awake, from "Hiawatha," and "The Trumpeter," by Dix. Mr. ©. Brown (elocution-

ist) will entertain with a recital of | "The Colonel" (by Bransby Williams), . . "The Foreign Legion" (by Harris), and | ’ the old favourite, "The Hindoo’s Para-- \ dise." An interesting item on Friday’s pro: | gramme will be a pianoforte solo by > Mr. Norman Izett, L.A.B. Mr. Izett is a young pianist who is well known in musical circles in Wellington. He will play Chopin’s "Ballade in A Flat," a number which will be appreciated by a» large number of listeners. ON Saturday evening the popular Melodie Four, together with Mrs. Culford Bell, of Auckland, and the Palmer Brothers’ Hawaiian Duo, will provide a pleasing programme. The Melodie Four’s concerted items will be "Ice Cream," "Katy Did," and the popular "Angela Mia." Mr. Frank Bryant (tenor) will sing "A Brown Bird inging,’ and Mr. W. W. Marshall {Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep." "ry Ilady’s Bower," by Temple, will be Mr. R. S. Allwright’s solo, and Mr. S. Duncan will sing the popular tenor solo "Machushla." : Mrs. Culford Bell is an elocutionist well known throughout New Zealand. She will entertain listeners with a dramatic recital with musical effects, "O Koyo San" (by Wish Wyne), and with a French-Canadian number, "De Bell of San Michel’ (by Drummond@). -.