4YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 11, 27 September 1929, Page 15

4YA Features

PASTOR W. D. MORH will’ be ‘the preacher,.of the broadcast sermon on Sunday evening, when 4YA will relay the service from St. Andrew Street Church of Christ. The concert to follow will be given in His Majesty’s Theatre by the Dunedin Tramways Band under Mr. C. Morgan. A PLHASING attraction on Monday evening’s programme ill be the presentation.of portion of the famous song cycle "In a Persian Garden." This.is to be performed by the Majors under the direction of Mr, T. J. KirkBurnnand, "In a Persian Garden" consists, as is well-known, of many of the stanzas from Fitzgerald’s beautiful translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, set to music by Liza Lehmann, The same vocalists will contribute an excellent supporting. programme, and instrumental items will be given by Mrs, B. Drake (pianiste), Mr. Frink Parsons (violin). and Mr. P, J. Palmer (’cello). HE fifth of the series "With the Poets" will be given on Monday evening by Mr. Angus Gorrie. He will deal with "Robert Bridges — Poet Laureate." THE programme to be given by the St. Kilda Band, under Mr. James Dixon, on Tuesday evening will be up to the usual high standard. The marches to be played will be "Love and Honour," "Paragon," and "The Orusader,"’ There will be a waltz, "Queen of Rubies," a cornet solo with band accompaniment, "When You Come Home," the overture, "Golden Sceptre," and a selection entitled "Minstrel Melodies," The assisting vocalists for the evening will be Miss Louise de Reya (soprano), Miss Dorothy Allan (contralto), and Mr. Buster Brown (singing Lauder songs). One of the songs to be sung by Miss Louise de Reya is a local composition: "A Kiss, a Oaress, and then Adieu." This number is in course of

publication by Allan ‘and Company Pty. Limited, Melbourne. The composer is Mr. David 8. Sharp, pianist-composer, of Dunedin, who collaborated with Mr. Hd. Hoyland, of Auckland. WEHEDNESDAY’S programme will consist of.an hour and a-half’s entertainment by the Four Aces Concert Party. Linked together by stories and repartee, there will be concerted. items, solos, monologues, and pianoforte solos. Some humorous numbers will be included in this popular broadcast. A dance music session will follow. ERMANN LOHR’S pretty song eycle, "The Little Sunbonnet," will be presented on Friday evening by 4YA Harmonists, The supporting musical programme will be of a miscellaneous nature. ON Saturday evening 4YA will relay from 3YA,