1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 47, 7 June 1929, Page 14

1YA Features

'[\HH religious service to be broadcast on Sunday evening will be from St. Andrew’s Presbyterian’ Church, the preacher being the Rev. Ivo H. Bertram. Afterwards there will be a relay of the concert to be given by the Port Nicholson Band, Wellington. N Tuesday evening a splendid operatie programme will be presented by the Olympians. Their concerted numbers will include "Pretty Little China Girl’ from the popular opera, "Belle of New York," and the "Miserere Scene" from "Il Trovatore." Miss Dorothy Youd’s fine, dramatic soprano voice wili be heard in the great aria from "Madame Butterfly," "One Fine Day," while Miss Martha Williamson will include among her contralto solos "Willow Tree" and "Ingrid’s Song." Mr. Geoffrey Colledge, well known for his work in the Auckland Choral Society’s production of "Maritana," will sing two numbers from that opera, "In Happy Moments" and "My Heart with Woe O’ertaken." Mr. Lambert Harvey will also sing the well-known tenor solos from the same opera, "Let Me Like a Soldier Fall" and "There’s a Blower That Bloometh." The Studio Wrio’s numbers will include "Sailor’s

Song" from "The Flying Dutchman," and selections from Saint-Saens’s great opera, "Samson and Delilah," while a ’eello solo will be rendered by Miss Mollie Wright. Concluding the programme will be a gramophone lecturerecital by Mr. Karl Atkinson, who will present, with explanatory dialogue, part one of Act 3 of Wagner’s opera, "Tristan and Isolde." THD main contributors to Wednesday evening’s programme will be the Auckland Artillery Band, under the baton of Mr. Wynne Smith. This popular combination will render a. fine programme of band items, including "Waldmere March," Rachmaninoff’s "Prelude," a "Harry Lauder Song Selection," "In a Monastery Garden," "Wellington March" and a cornet solg. Assisting the band will be the Minster Quartet and Mr. T. T. Garland, humorist. The Minster Quartet, comprising Misses G. Hosking and M. Davison and Messrs. R. Stephenson and A. Macpherson, will present a vocal programme of quartets and solos, including "The Shades of Night Around us Steal," "A Spring Song," "The Little Road to Kerry," "If You Pass Through My. Garden" and "Wayfarer’s Night ong."

A. SPLENDID variety programme will be presented on Thursday evening by the "Radio Scamps," who will be’ remembered, for their bright and breezy entertainment on Saturday, May 11, Their latest offerings, entitled "A Trip from Tilbury," will be even more entertaining than on that occasion. This production will be looked forward to by all listeners. Following the studio concert a programme of dance music will be broadcast until 11 p.m. UTSTANDING on Friday evening’s programme will be the initial appearance at 1YA of Mr. Laurence North, who is considered one of the most promising baritones in the Dominion. Mr. North’s fine interpretation of the role in "Elijah," produced by the Auckland Choral Society last year, is still remembered in Auckland, and his first appearance "on the air" will be eagerly looked forward to. The Celeste Ladies’ Trio will contribute yocal trios and solos, while Mr. Eric Waters, the well-known pianist, will play "Spinning Song" (Raff). Another feature on the programme will be two short organ’ recitals by Mr. Arthur E. Wilson, the first of which will be devoted to compositions by Handel. Mr. Wilson will also accompany Mr. North in two baritone numbers, "The Trumpet Shall Sound" and "Alleluia." Contralto solos to be sung by Mrs. B. Jellard include "In My Wild Mountain Valley" and "I’m Alone," from "The Lily of Killarney." Instrumental selectons will also be played by the Studio rio. HE variety programme for Saturday evening will include soprano solos by Mrs. L. Parry and elocutionary items by Mr. 0, Paine. The popular Snappy Three will be heard in the latest ballads and jazz hits, while a

new combination in the persons of "The Peripatetic Pair," will contribute "Novelties and Nonsense." ‘The Studio Orchestra will provide popular orchestral items and the programme will conclude with dance music until 11 p.m.