The Programme from 2YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 51, 5 July 1929, Page 14

The Programme from 2YA

Listeners will no doubt have pleasant recollections of the concert broadcast by the Hutt Valley Choral Society, and will be pleased to hear that on Monday, July 8, a relay of the society’s first concert of the 1929 season will be carried out. The society, which performs under the conductorship of Mr. BE. A. F. Jenner, A.R.C.M., will, as in the past, have the assistance of the 2YA Orchestra. The programme will comprise ‘folk songs, part songs, and the cantata, "The Banner of St. George." The soloist in the latter number will be Miss Ailsa Nicol, who will also be. herad in an operatic aria from Verdi’s opera, "La Traviata," and in Mendelssohn’s "On Wings of Song." Miss Nicol is a rising young soprano of whom more

IIS DOO PLP LP LPP PPD PPP LOP LADD LLL AAA LAA AAAS fn pe will be heard later. The orchestral items will include the. "Plymouth: Hoe" overture, two violin solos, wth orchestral accompaniment, ‘"Romanza Andaluza" (by Sarasate), and Chopin’s "Nocturne in E Fiat," the soloist being Mr. W, Bennett, and Saint-Saens popular . "Suite Algerienne." ON Tuesday evening a light "op ts) fe! lar’ programme will be prese The orchestral numbers will includ the popular march medley, "Martial Moments," a cornet and trombone duet "Watchman, What of the Night" (the soloists being Messrs. W. Sneddon and Harold Oakes), and "Petit Rhapsodie" (by Russe). The supporting artists will be Mr. G. Austin Blackie (tenor), Miss Gretta Stark (soprano), Mr. Edward Silver (popular songs), and The Two Boiled Owls, who will give a short radio skit entitled 2H. O.W.L., as well as a piano novelty and yoeal number. Mr. Edward Silver will be heard in some of the latest dance numbers. "THE band of the ist Battalion Wellington Regiment, under the conductorship of Lieut. B. J. Shardlow, and with the assistance of Mrs, Kingi Potiki (soprano), Miss Grace Robertson (contralto), Mr. S. H.. Rodger (baritone),; and Mr. Will "Hancock (tenor) will provide an entertaining programme on Thursday evening. The band items will include a selection "A Day wi Robert Burns," by the wellknown composer Ord Hume, a selection from the popular musical comedy "The Vagabond King," and the "Portia" intermézzo from "Ife Merchant «of Venice Suite," as well as several waltzes, marches, and foxtrot items. A cornet solo, "Until," by Sanderson, will be played by Sergeant Barke. Mrs, Potiki’s items will be two Maori numbers, "Pokare Kare," and the wellknown Maori slumber song, "Hine e Hine." Mr. S. HB. Rodger will sing "The Song of the Waggoner" and Tosti’s "My Dreams." Miss Grace Roberison has chosen for her items "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead," "Jock o’ Hazeldean," and an "Hriskay . Love Lilt.’ Mr. Will Hancock, the g popular tenor, will sing "Sweet Mi Mary," "I Heard You Singing," and "Rose of My Heart." Mr. Daniel Barrie, the popular elocutionist, will deliver another instalment of "School-

boy Howlers," and will also recount "My . Financial. Career" (by Leacock). ON Friday evening, the Philharmonie Quartet will present a programme of operatic and musical comedy numbets, which will include selec‘tions from "Faust," "The Rebel Maid," "The Gondoliers," "The Quaker Girl," "Merrie England," and "Lilac Time." Supporting items by the Studio Or; chestra ‘will include "The Marriage of Figaro" Overture, selections from "La Boheme" and "The Bohemian Girl," and "The William Tell Ballet Music." The piano soloist for the evening will be Miss Pauline Rodgers. Two humorous sketches will be given by Mrs. KR, Carte and Mins Rosé a: