Notes from 2YA

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 12, 4 October 1929, Page 14

Notes from 2YA

HE Presbyterian service conducted in St. John’s Church by the Rev. J. R. Blanchard will be broadcast on Sunday evening. A relay from His Majesty’s Theatre of the concert to be given by the Municipal Tramways Band under Mr. E. Franklin will follow. A BRIGHT and varied programme will be given on Tuesday evening by the "Strollers" radio party. The items include vocal solos, humorous items, and sketches of a bright nature. The party will be assisted by the orchestra, whose items will be the "Lustspiel" overture, a selection "In Norwegian Fiords," and Coleridge Taylor’s "Petite Suite de Concert." From 9.30

III III III III ES ELLIS F until 11 p.m. a "Brunswick" dance programme will be broadcast. HE City Silver Band, which plays under the conductorship of Mr. C. A. Forrest, will on Thursday evening present another of their entertaining programmes. The band items comprise a selection from "H.M.S. Pinafore," a humoresque "A Trip to Blackpool," a eornet solo "The Lost Chord," Lithgow’s selection "Knight Hrrant," and several marches and waltzes. Tha vocalists for the evening will be Mr/ Harry Phipps (tenor), Miss Veronica Mackenzie (soprano), Miss Agnes McDavitt (contralto), and Mr. lL. Bent (baritone). A FEATURE ‘of Thursday’s programme will be a lecturette by Mr. Johannes Andersen on "Maori Music." Mr. Andersen is an acknowledged authority on Maori music, and his remarks on the subject will be listended to with interest by everyone in his radio audience. HE Philharmonic Quartet, with the assistance of the orchestra, will on Vviday evening present a programme of excerpts from "The Rebel Maid" and grand opera and musical comedy, and the elocutionary items of the evening will be given by Mr. Errol Muir, the

ont winner of the elocutionary championship at the recent Wellington Competitions Society’s festival. N Saturday evening a bright vaudeville programme will be given by . the following artists:-The Melodie Four, Miss Adele Taylor, Mr. Barry Myddleton (entertainer at the piano), and the'Berthold and Bent Steel Guitar Duo. The orchestra will contribute numerous selections. Mr. L. W. Probert will play as a xylophone solo, with Tell" overture, At 10 p.m. a "Columbia" dance programme will be presénted, and at 10.45 the usual "Sporting Summary" of the day’s events will be broadcast.