3YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 44, 17 May 1929, Page 15

3YA Features

TTHERE will be a relay of the divine service conducted in the Anglican Cathedral on Sunday evening. His Archbishop Julius will be the preacher. Dr. J. ©. Bradshaw wil be organist and choirmaster. Following the church broadcast, 3YA will rebroadcast 2YA. 2 "THE captivating "Funiculi Funicula" will be the opening number to be played by Derry’s Military Band on Monday evening. Other numbers by this popular organisation will include a waltz, a gavotte, a selection from "Faust," a descriptive fantasia and a march. Other instrumentalists for the evening will be the Studio Trio. Contributing to the vocal programme will be Mrs. Stephen Parr, singing three well-known airs, Miss Avril Glanville, whose songs will include an overatie solo. an old-time favourite and

a popular number. Mr. Cyril Rishworth (baritone) will sing "A Bandit’s Life is the Life for Me" and "Oh! Oh! ear the Wild Winds Blow."' There ill be two recitations by Mr. Harold [TEMS on Wednesday evening’s programme will include selections from well-known operas: "The Anvil Chorus" and "The Miserere"’ (from "Tl Trovatore’), "Il Bacio," two solos from "Una," and an excerpt from "Maid of the Mountains." Other solos will be "Beyond the Dawn," "The Secret," "My Sweetheart When a Boy," "You'll Get Heaps o’ Lickin’s," "Keep on Hopin’" and "Shipmates of Mine." There will also be a duet, "Come to the Fair." The vocalists for the evening will be Miss Lilian Hanham, Miss Dulcie Mitchell, Mr. H. «Blakeley and Mr. J. Graham Young. ON Thursday -evening the "Commenorative Ode" written by Mr. Johannes Andersen at the time of the

New Zealand International Exhibition in Christchurch in 1906-7, and set to musie by Mr, Alfred Hill, will be sung by Miss Frances Hamerton’s Melodious Four. The ode comprises quartet numbers as well as solos. It is a very melodious composition and this will be the first time it has been broadcast. Besides the ode there will be other New Zealand numbers, notably tivo ’cello solos, which Mr. Beck will play, and three Maori songs by the Studig Trio, Mrs. Culford Bell, wife of Mr. Culford Bell, announcer at 1¥A, herself an elocutionist of note, will give three recitations: "The House by the Side of the Road," "The Little High Chair," and "The Last Lesson."

Tae ys view of the interest which aviation is now arousing in New Zealand, much attention will be paid to an address on Wednesday evening by Sir Francis Boyes, president of the Canterbury. Amateur Aero Club. FRrpDAy, May 24, being Empire Day. 8YA will mark the occasion with an "All British" programme. Appropriately following the opening number. "God Save the King," sung by the Valencia Quartet, will be the old marching song of the English archers

in the French wars, "The Song of the Bow,’": then the "Land of My Fathers," the Welsh National Anthem, after which Pipe-Major Patterson’s bagpipes will speak for Scotland. The lilting strains of "The Kerry Dance" will follow. And so the programme will go on, an Empire programme. "The Hindoo Song" and "The Song of India" being introduced also. The evening’s entertainment should be an extremely popular one. Following on Friday's Empire Day programme, a full Scottish concert will be presented on Saturday eveningtwo hours of Highland music, not forgetting the bagpipes. The performers will be the Revellers Concert Party.