3YA Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 46, 31 May 1929, Page 14

3YA Notes

ON Sunday evening 8YA will relay the religious service conducted in the Durham Street Methodist Church. The preacher will be the Rev. W. 7. Blight, and the organist Mr. Ernest Firth, F.R.C.O. The after-church broadcast will consist of a gramophone recital from 8YA Studio and a rebroadcast of the concert to be given by the Wellington Municipal Tramways Band in His Majesty’s Theatre, Wellington. FROM 9 o’clock on Monday evening 8YA will relay a description of. the boxing tourney which is to be held under the auspices of the Christchurch; Arateur Boxing and Sports Club. Thé concert. programme. which will precede the sporting relay will be an excellent entertainment, contributed by the Christchurch Municipal Band, Mrs. D. W. Stallard (vontralto), Mr. Bernard Rennell (baritone), Mr. Richard R. Wills (elocutionist), and the Studio Trio. FUXCERPTS from "Rose Marie," the very popular musical play, will be

s b] \ the feature of Wednesday evening’s ,programme. The vocalists will be Miss Lilian Hanham, Miss Dulcie Mitchell, Mr. H. Blakely, and Mr. J. Graham Young. This should be a particularly enjoyable evening, for in addition to the ‘Rose Marie" numbers there will be some excellent miscellaneous items by the same vocalists and selections by the Studio Orchestra under: Mr. Harold Beck. Mr. Beck will also play ’cello solos, and the records will comprise orchestral numbers, a violin solo by Kreisler, "Indian Love Call," flute quartet, a grand organ solo, and a male voice quartet. f"Fruora’s HOLIDAY," a charming v song cycle of English son; s, will { } ‘be sung on Thursday evening, the ‘vocalists being Madame Gower Burns, Miss Dorothy Spiller, -Mr. Ernest Rogers, and Mr. James Filer. The svpporting programme will include such fine solds’as "Invocation to the Nile," "Maire My Girl," and "Hybrias the Cretan," while there will be a soprano and contralto duet, Landon Ronald’s "Sunbeams." HBlocutionary numbers by Miss Maiona Juriss will be "Llano Estacado" and "The Woman Who Understands." ISS ALTHEA SLACK, pianiste, late of the Sydney Conservatorium, will play pianoforte solos-Schumann's "Novelette,’" De Bussey’s "Arabesque," and "Garden Under Rain." A lecture by Sir Francis Boys, president of the Canterbury Amateur Aero Club, will be given on Wednesday evening. This lecture was adjourned from last week. RIDAY evening’s programme will be provided by the Male Choir Concert Party of the Commercial Travellers’ Association. The commercial t: -vellers have much individual and collective talent. Part-songs will be a feature of the programme. These will comprise "Sailor’s Song,’ "Minnensingers," "In a Gondola," "To Arms,’ ‘and "The Camel and the Butterfly." Among the soloists will be some artists new to 3YA-Miss Merle Parry (soprano), Miss Maggie Richardson (contralto). Mr. G. W. Parry (tenor), Mr. W. Toomey (baritone). Mr. K. W. Connor (baritone), Mr. H. Taylor (bass), Mr. W. Drake, Mr. Robert Clark (violinist), and Mr, A. H. Romerill (reciter). Among the solos for the male voices will be "The * Diver," "The Tune of the Open Country," "The Stoker," "Wairings,~ "Duna," "For You Alone," and "In--dian Serenade." HE Beckenham Male Quartet will be contributing to Saturday evening’s radio vaudeville. Their partsongs will be "Old Black Joe," "Slumber Song," "There was an Old Woman," "A Catastrophe," and "Sunkist Hawaii." Miss Nellie Lowe will be singing solos-"If I Might Come to You," "My Curly-Headed Babby," and "The Garden of Sleep." Mr. Charles ™~, Lawrence, the popular entertainer, will "pe on the air for a cuarter of an hour, and Theo. and Frances Gunther, two very clever little performers, will ‘play English concertina duets. There will also be Mr, George Titchener in distinctive humorous items.