3YA Notes

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 14, 18 October 1929, Page 15

3YA Notes

[THe service in the Christchurch Anglican Cathedral will be broadcast on Sunday evening. The preacher will be the Rev. BE. C. Crosse. A "yebroadcast of 2YA will follow. ONDAY ‘evening at 3YA will be devoted to a relay from the ringside at the Civic Theatre. AtMost entirely operatic will be Wednesday evening’s programme. _ This will be an entertainment of outstanding attractions to lovers of music of this class. Co-operating with the vocalists will be the Studio Instrumental Octet under the conductorship of Mr. Harold Beck, and Miss Bessie Pollard, pianiste. Solos from "Mignon". and- "Lucrezia Borgia" will be .sung by Miss Anita Graham. Miss Marian Woodhouse will sing solos from "Nozze di Figaro" -and "Ballo in Maschera." Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini and Leoncavallo will be represented in songs which Mr. Perey Nicholls will sing. Mr. Clive Hindle will sing "Oh, Lady Bright," "Song of Bacchus," and "How Badly is the Course of Life Adjusted." The orchestral music has been specially chosen for the occasion. 4 ON Thursday evening the Studio Oc‘tet under Mr. Harold Beck will again ‘appear. On this occasion the ‘programme will be of a semi-classical nature. Miss Hileen Grennell will sing a selection from "La Tosca," "Thou Art Like a Lovely Flower," and "Through the Night My Songs Adjure Thee." Miss Nellie Lowe’s solos will . be "Ships that Pass in the Night," "Break, Break, Break," "The Songs My Mother Sang," and "O, Lovely Night." The other vocalists will be Mr. L. C. Quane (tenor) and Mr. W. H. Inkster (baritone). Some specially

selected recordings ‘will also be introduced. A TALK on "City Beautification" will be given on Friday evening at 7.30 by Mr. F, L, Hutchinson, a member of the Hxecutive of the Christchurch Beautifying Association. Dance musie will be prominent on Friday evening’s programme, the instrumeéntalists being the Bailey-Marston Dance Orchestra. The vocalists of the coneert will be Mrs. Lucy O’Brien, Miss Mary Taylor, Mr. T. G. Rogers, and Mr. BB. J. Johnson, singing quartets, duets and solos. The programme will be a very bright one. N Saturday evening there will be a programme of the vaudeville type. It will introduce a violin and accordion duo-Messrs. N. Collins and George Bennett-playing popular numbers. . Vocalists will be Mrs. Maud Wood (mezzo-soprano), Miss Vera Martin (contralto), dnd Mr. Arthur T. Couch (tenor). There Will be humorous recitations by Mr, J. P. Darragh and humorous sketches by Messrs. Alan Brown and Cyril Collins. The Melody Maids. will Sing popular songs at the piano with ukulele obligato.